Dreyer & Reinbold is co-entering VeeKay’s #76 with Juncos Hollinger at Indy

Juncos Hollinger and Dreyer & Reinbold are apparently co-entering Rinus VeeKay’s #76 car at the Indy 500 with primary sponsorship from Wedbush. DRR has two of its own entries this year, with Conor Daly and Jack Harvey, and Juncos is of course VeeKay’s employer for the full season. Teams do weird things to get cars on the grid at Indy, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one team join another team’s full-season car before. Please let me know if there’s an example.

I don’t really get this one. It is apparently some sort of technical alliance, but do these teams actually need each other’s help in any meaningful way? Apparently it’s not a proactive one like most such alliances, like how Foyt is essentially a Penske farm team and MSR is the same for Ganassi. It’s more like, if Juncos finds something that DRR doesn’t, or vice versa, they’ll share their little tips and tricks for making speed.

The only more significant thing this brings to mind for me is the rumor that Dreyer & Reinbold want to go full-time in 2028, when the new car comes out. Perhaps Juncos wants to get out of their charters. And who could blame them? They have to keep giving Sting Ray Robb one of the cars to drive.