AJ Foyt Racing’s Santino Ferrucci, driver of the No.14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet, says that the team’s consolidation of operations into its Speedway race shop will be a game-changer.
Foyt had a fantastic season in 2024, with Ferrucci ending the season in ninth place in the championship. The team may have lost Michael Cannon to PREMA Racing over the off-season. However, Ferrucci says that the depth of talent within the team will make up for the loss of Cannon Ferrucci, whom he has known for a long time, and says he still speaks to Michael on the phone.
Ferrucci wants to continue his momentum from last season, a year which saw him score his maiden NTT P1 Award at the BitNile.com Portland Grand Prix. Ferrucci said that he wants to build on Foyt’s technical alliance with Team Penske, and the aim for this season is to score his maiden NTT INDYCAR SERIES race win.
Speaking to Paddock Eye during INDYCAR Content Day in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Ferrucci said:
Yeah, so towards the end of the year we definitely picked up the pole, the two top 5s, really strong run in Nashville with another — I think we qualified in the top 5 if it wasn’t for the engine penalty.
But all of that is just building on the success that we had throughout the year, building setups, building books. Our engineering staff last year was almost completely brand new, so it took a while for us to learn, and the Penske alliance, as well, for us to learn that, and we started to figure out towards the end of the year. Not having an off-season, a lot of sim time with Chevrolet and continuing to work all under one roof now since our shop is now in Indy. My shop is not based in Houston. It’s going to be game changing, and I think we can just expect more success, just more time 5s, hopefully some more poles, and that maiden win.