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April 06, 2018 | By Paul Kelly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Like every Verizon IndyCar Series driver, Jordan King is looking forward to the Month of May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But his month will look a bit different than for most other drivers. Series rookie King will drive in the INDYCAR Grand Prix on May 11-12 as part of his 11-race program on road and street courses with Ed Carpenter Racing. Once the checkered flag flies on the IMS road course Saturday, May 12, King will hand the keys for the No. 20 Ed Carpenter Racing Fuzzy’s Vodka Chevrolet to team owner Ed Carpenter, who is driving that machine in the 102nd Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil on Sunday, May 27. “I’ll have a smile on my face the whole month,” King said. “At the start of the month, I’m actually racing so I need to keep my focus and concentrate on the job at hand. But I suppose for the ‘500’ I can then relax and take it all in and enjoy the atmosphere, enjoy the experience rather than having to stress about driving myself. I can watch and learn everything that needs to be done when I do race (in the ‘500’).” King, 24, from Warwick, England, arrived in IndyCar in January after a stellar career in international and European junior open-wheel formulas. He raced in Formula 2/GP2 – the last step before Formula 1 in the FIA global racing ladder – from 2015-17, with four poles and two victories. His teammate in 2015 was Alexander Rossi, who jumped to the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2016 and won the 100th Indianapolis 500 as a rookie. British standout King was a Formula 3 star before climbing to F2, winning the ultra-competitive British Formula 3 championship in 2013, and finishing sixth and seventh in the European F3 series in 2013 and 2014. That success helped him earn a role as a development driver with the Manor/MRT Formula 1 team in 2015-16. But he set his sights on the Verizon IndyCar Series after visiting the 2016 season finale in Sonoma, California. He met team owner Carpenter during that trip and ended up landing an ECR ride for his first, limited season in the series in 2018. A look at that impressive racing resume should have labeled King as a rookie to watch in March for his Verizon IndyCar Series debut in the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Yet he still stunned many paddock observers by driving to a track-record lap during the first qualifying group, eventually earning a spot in the Firestone Fast Six in mixed conditions in the second segment. King continued his roll in the Fast Six, grabbing the fourth starting spot on the grid. King then established himself as an elite rookie – and a potential race winner in 2018 – in the early stages of the race. He led Laps 6-10 on the street course after passing fellow rookie and pole sitter Robert Wickens on a restart. But the dream debut ended on a restart on Lap 33. King was running eighth when he suffered a flat tire, causing King to brush the wall and suffer suspension damage. He limped to the pits for repairs and rejoined the race three laps down. King finished 21st, three laps behind winner Sebastien Bourdais, in a result that didn’t reflect his true pace. King will race on a street circuit at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 15 and on a natural-terrain road course at the Honda Grand Prix of Alabama on April 22 before coming to Indy for his truncated Month of May with the INDYCAR Grand Prix. He admits he’s trying to wrap his head around the thought of racing on the hallowed asphalt of IMS in the INDYCAR Grand Prix and absorbing all of the sights and sounds of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” during the month from the ECR garage and pit wall. “Speaking to someone like Alex Rossi or Conor Daly, they tell me the whole experience is something else, never to be seen elsewhere,” King said. “I know a few people that have traveled over to the U.S. for the ‘500.’ They say the same thing: The whole experience is just something else. A great two weeks of running.” King hopes to parlay two weeks of watching after the INDYCAR Grand Prix into a seat in the 103rd Indianapolis 500 as part of a full-season ride in 2019. “From a personal point of view, I want to achieve certain goals,” King said. “I would put the ‘500’ on those goals in the future. In general, I want to strive to become the best I can and achieve the most of my abilities.”