Nunn calls it quits
Hemelgarn Motorsports has acquired Mo Nunn Racing's Dallara chassis after the veteran team owner and engineer called time on his participation in the IRL IndyCar Series, according to SpeedTV.com
Returning team boss Ron Hemelgarn, who will run IRL rookie Paul Dana - last year's Infiniti Pro Series runner-up - bought the equipment after Nunn decided to close the doors on his five-year-old operation, which struggled for competitiveness last season. Nunn, a legend in the US motorsport engineering community, has not ruled out a one-off return to the Indianapolis 500 however.
"I've still got a couple of G-Forces and, if I could put together something competitive, I'd like to run Indianapolis one more time, that would be a good way to go out," said the 65-year-old Englishman, who started his own CART team in 2000 after engineering Alex Zanardi and Juan Montoya to three consecutive CART championships from 1997-1999 and winning Indy with Emerson Fittipaldi in 1989.
The former Formula 1 designer and owner fielded cars in CART and the IRL before going full-time to the IRL with Toyota in 2003. He won races with Felipe Giaffone and Alex Barron but had a dreadful season with Tora Takagi in 2004.
Nunn talked with Tomas Scheckter, Patrick Carpentier and Barron about '05 but all had commitments so he opted to pack it in and head for the golf course with his wife, Kathryn, who started an Infiniti Pro Series team last year (scoring three wins with P.J. and James Chesson) but recently sold all her cars and equipment.
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