Ed Carpenter Racing headquarters in 2017

Ed Carpenter Racing, competing as "ECR", is an American racing team based in

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that currently competes in the

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. The team is owned by driver Ed Carpenter. The team is based in

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, and currently fields the No. 20

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for

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, the No. 21 Dallara-Chevrolet for Christian Rasmussen and the No. 33 Dallara-Chevrolet for Ed Carpenter. In 2015, the team merged with

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to form

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, but became ECR again in 2016.

History

After spending five seasons with

Vision Racing Vision Racing was a racing team in the Indy Racing League founded in 2005 when Tony George purchased the assets of the defunct Kelley Racing and hired his stepson Ed Carpenter to be the driver. The team has previously raced in the Izod IndyCar ...

, and the

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with

, on November 2, 2011, Ed Carpenter announced the creation of Ed Carpenter Racing, which ran its first season in

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with sponsorship by Fuzzy's Premium Vodka for three seasons. Among the reasons for the team's creation was concerns surrounding the departure of Sarah Fisher Racing's sponsor

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. IRL founder and Carpenter's stepfather

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also became an owner, along with former golfer

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team owner and former

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member Derrick Walker was hired as general manager; Tim Broyles and Bret Schmitt were hired as team manager and crew chief, respectively. On February 13, 2012, it was confirmed that the team will run with engines from

. Carpenter stated that he was intending to run a full season, unlike in previous seasons, where he ran the ovals, and had also decided to drive with #20, the number he drove with during his tenure at Vision Racing. The team claimed its first victory with Carpenter winning the season-ending

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, and ECR became the only one-driver team to win a race in 2012. In

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, Walker left for a position with IndyCar. Eventually, Carpenter scored the

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for the

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. He finished the season sixteenth in points, with a best result of second at the final race at

. For the 2014 season, Carpenter competed in the oval races on the calendar, while

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competed for the team on road and street courses. On March 20,

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was hired to run the

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with the team in the No. 21. The move to a shared drive paid off well for the team early in the year, with Conway winning the 40th

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, and Carpenter winning the Indy 500 pole for the second consecutive year. Carpenter's four lap average of 231.067 mph was the first Indy pole-claiming run in excess of 230 mph for 11 years. Unfortunately, he was involved in a crash with

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on a late restart, finishing 27th. Later in the season, Carpenter won the

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, his first win since the 2012 triumph at Fontana. On August 16, 2014, Carpenter announced the team would merge with Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing for the 2015 season, becoming

. After one season, Hartman and Fisher left the sport and CFH was rebranded to Ed Carpenter Racing. On June 2, 2016, the team announced that

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champion

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would drive in the No. 20 car in all remaining road and street circuit events. The arrangement was similar to

's during the 2014 season. On June 12, 2016,

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sustained a fractured clavicle and wrist in an accident during the Firestone 600. The team announced the following day that

would fill in for Newgarden until he recovered from his injuries. However, Newgarden was able to recover enough from his injuries to not miss any races. For the 2017 season, Carpenter and Pigot remained with the team with the same agreement as the previous season. However, with the full-time entry vacated by Newgarden's departure to

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, the team hired

as the new full-time driver. During the second race of the season at

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, Hildebrand suffered a broken bone in his left hand. As a result, he was forced to sit out the next race. The team hired

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driver

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to fill in for Hildebrand while he recovered from his injuries. On March 7, 2018, it was announced that

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would drive a third car for the team in her final

appearance.

Racing results

Complete IndyCar Series results

( key) * Season still in progress # In conjunction with Scuderia Corsa # Non-points paying exhibition event

IndyCar wins

* Note: this does not include two wins achieved in

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References

External links

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