Belardi Auto Racing team manager John Brunner says that Zach Veach, who finished fourth in the Indy Lights championship, would be an asset to the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2017. Veach, who first started in Indy Lights in 2013, finished third in the 2014 championship with Andretti Autosport and scored three wins in the final season of the venerable Lights spec car of the time. Financial struggles then forced him to take a sabbatical in ’15, but he returned in 2016 with Belardi, and drove the #5 Dallara-Mazda IL15 to three wins. He also scored more points than any of his rivals over the final 10 races of the season, and was said to have set startling lap times in an IndyCar test at Sonoma...
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