
After finishing runner-up to Mick Schumacher in Formula 2 in 2020, Ilott made his IndyCar debut in 2021 with Juncos Hollinger Racing at the Grand Prix of Portland. At the time, he was a test driver with the Ferrari Driver Academy and was Alfa Romeo’s second reserve driver in Formula 1.
He first tested for Alfa’s F1 team in the in-season 2019 test at Barcelona and ran again in the post-2020 test at Abu Dhabi, having missed out on a Friday practice run for Haas at the Nurburgring when the session got washed out.