The Top Gun Racing team will not make its intended debut with driver RC Enerson (pictured above) at the 104th Indianapolis 500. The new outfit, co-owned by Gary Trout and Bill Throckmorton, was in negotiations to purchase a car and equipment from a team entered in the field of 33, but negotiations broke down last week as IndyCar announced significant changes to the event and their potential sponsors backed out. “We really thought we were going to put a car in the race,” Throckmorton told RACER. “We had two nice sponsors we were working on. We had RC sitting in a car when we got a call there would be no fans, and then we learned there would be almost no money. When it got down to the...
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