The IndyCar is convulsed since the blows continue due to the controversy generated on Sunday after the call of Theo Pourchaire of the team Arrow McLaren to Agustín Canapinoof the Hollinger Racing Juncos, on the Detroit street circuit. The explosion on social networks in favor of both sides ended with the breakdown of the strategic-commercial alliance that the same teams had signed towards the end of last year.
“Today, our strategic partnership with Arrow McLaren has come to an end. We appreciate the time spent with McLaren over the past few months. They are a world class organization that we enjoy competing with week after week. Although the results of the association did not mature, we have the greatest respect for them and we trust in the future of Juncos Hollinger Racing,” reported the team of Canapino in a statement published this Thursday.
While the team that is a satellite of the history of Formula 1 He also published a press release. “Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team has terminated its commercial alliance with Juncos Hollinger Racing, effective immediately,” he began.
They pointed to the comings and goings on social networks that included some attacks on both pilots. Pourchaire claimed that he received death threats. “This decision follows actions that occurred earlier this week on social media regarding an incident on the track at the Chevrolet Grand Prix of Detroit,” the report added.
“As reflected in the team’s social media community code, Arrow McLaren will not tolerate any form of abuse or discrimination and fully condemns online abuse directed at our team and driver,” he concluded. Arrow McLaren.
On Sunday Canapino He came to fight for a top ten and achieve his best result in the IndyCar, but the blow he received on his car knocked him out of alignment. Immediately there was a sound harsh radio dialogue between Agustín and Juncos with insults towards the French pilot.
For now, the future of Canapino in the category is insured until the last date. This weekend will be tense due to everything that has happened these days. Although beyond Agustín’s sporting merit, Its continuity will be subject to economic considerations.. Despite the improvement on the car and its evolution, another key point is that the current panorama of the multiple champion is not the best within the environment due to everything generated in Detroit.
Ricardo Juncosalso Argentine and one of the owners of the team where the Titán de Arrecifes races, acknowledged in a recent interview with Infobae that the entire budget for this year came from North American sponsors, because the aid from Argentina ended. Juncos and his partner Brad Hollinger made a huge financial sacrifice to field two cars this season.
Although also in dialogue with this medium he confessed the need to add sponsors: “We have sponsors and we were announcing, but what comes in is not enough. We continue uphill and the team owners invest. That is why it is very important to continue generating important investments because A team without financial solvency is impossible for it to function for a long time.. We have sponsors, but they are all boys”.
At the end of last year the Hollinger Racing Juncos signed an agreement with McLaren, and Juncos already in that last contact with this medium anticipated that things were not going well at all. “There is no technical benefit. There is no exchange of technical information. It is a strategic and commercial alliance that has not yet started because both McLaren and we changed our marketing and commercial departments. “That was in February.”
In it Miami F1 Grand PrixJuncos met for 40 minutes with the CEO of McLaren, Zak Brown, and indicates that they talked “about everything.” The agreement aimed to allow the historic F1 team to expand throughout America beyond the United States. “The objective was that we had the Latin American connections for being an emerging team and they being one of the most legendary teams in the history of racing. We could not start with a system that benefits both teams,” he concluded.
Although the episode in Detroit was the trigger for the breakup, it is also good to clarify that Juncos had already anticipated that the issue was not going well at all. This Sunday the seventh date will be run in the Road America Speedwayin Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. More than ever, Canapino, Juncos and company need to turn the page.
