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CFH Indycar team confirms partnership with Chevrolet for 2015

The newly-merged CFH Racing IndyCar team has confirmed that it will partner with Chevrolet in 2015, as predicted by AUTOSPORT last week

"We are pleased that the newly formed CFH Racing will compete with Chevrolet's twin-turbo V6 in the IndyCar Series beginning in 2015," said Jim Campbell, Chevrolet's vice president of performance vehicles and motorsports.

"Adding Josef Newgarden to the Chevrolet IndyCar V6 driver roster, and Sarah Fisher and Wink Hartman along with Ed Carpenter to our key partners in IndyCar is exciting for Chevrolet.

"Ed's team has produced tremendous results the last three seasons, and we will be thrilled to see the CFH Racing Chevy-powered cars on the track in 2015."

The team has been formed out of a union between the single-car Ed Carpenter Racing and Sarah Fisher Hartman outfits.

Its manufacturer alignment was one of the immediate points of intrigue when the merger was announced last month, with Carpenter's team having an existing relationship with Chevy while SFHR used Honda engines.

Co-owner Fisher, who used Chevrolet engines during her time as a driver, said that she is excited to now have all the major element of the team in place.

"Being a part of the Chevy family in the past, I am looking forward to rejoining their organisation," she said.

"The decision to partner CFH Racing with Chevrolet was the first of many that we will make together as a team. The process was sincerely a group effort and encourages all of us as to how we will work as a team.

"I have been extremely grateful for the partner that Honda has been in my career and to SFHR. We are thankful for their ongoing support of the IndyCar Series".

Carpenter's team won three races this year with Chevy power; two of those victories coming with Mike Conway at the wheel, and one via Carpenter himself.

"I am very proud that CFH Racing will be powered by Team Chevy for the 2015 season," he said.

"Team Chevy has delivered for ECR over the past three years, and I know that our new combination of CFH Racing and Chevrolet will continue to put us in a great position moving forward.

"We are totally confident in their product, and cannot wait to debut the Chevrolet aero kit starting in 2015."

Josef Newgarden, whose entire three-year IndyCar career has been as a SFHR driver, has already been confirmed to drive one of the new team's two cars next year.

Carpenter remains in negotiations with Conway about the possibility of reprising their shared role in the second car, with Carpenter driving on ovals and Conway taking over for road and street events.

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