The news came somewhat as a shock late September: After five years Rinus VeeKay had to leave Ed Carpenter Racing — the team he made his IndyCar debut with back in 2020. "I didn't see it coming. I was in the gym and got a few calls from my manager", VeeKay recalls during an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com.
"I thought ‘I'll call him back in a minute’, but normally if I don't answer my phone, he doesn't keep calling me three more times. Finally, I picked up and he told me ‘you won't believe this, but Ed doesn't want to continue and is going in a different direction with the line-up’. It came as a complete surprise to me, because in Nashville I sat down with Ed and told my crew ‘guys don't worry, I'll be back next year’."
