Lone Star Doubling Up for Indy Weekend; Makes GS Return

Lone Star Racing and drivers Dan Knox, Salih Yoluç, Rui Andrade and Scott Andrews combine to double up on the team’s Mercedes-AMG IMSA programs for the second consecutive year this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with dual GTD and GS campaigns at the Battle on The Bricks weekend.

Looking to build on the team’s race-winning and podium success at IMS in recent years, Lone Star team owner and driver Knox makes his IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge debut co-driving the No. 79 Mercedes-AMG GT4 with Andrews.

Knox made history with Lone Star at Indy last October when they scored the first major North American victory for a Mercedes-AMG GT2 in a GT America powered by AWS round.

Andrews, meanwhile, nearly won the Pilot Challenge race last September in Lone Star’s Mercedes-AMG GT4, closing on the leader but settling for a second-place finish when the clock ran out in the timed race.

The renewed GT4 program runs alongside the team’s primary Michelin Endurance Cup campaign in the No. 80 Mercedes-AMG GT Ecvo.

The fourth round of this year’s five-race Endurance Cup season marks the one-year anniversary when Andrews and co-driver Anton Dias Perera made their IMSA GTD Indy debut in last year’s event.

“Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been a great track for Lone Star Racing the last few years,” said Knox. “I was fortunate to win a GT2 race there last year and our GT4 team almost won the Michelin Pilot Challenge GS race.

“That’s one of the reasons I want to come back and give the Pilot Challenge race another shot. Scott was flying at the end of last year’s race but we had to settle for second when the time ran out.

“It will be great to run not one but two Mercedes-AMG entries this weekend, and we are really working hard and looking forward to a pair of great results.”

Andrews is the only one of Lone Star’s four drivers competing in both of the weekend’s featured races.

“It is two years in a row at Indy that we have done the double at Indy, and it is great to do both of them with Lone Star Racing,” he said. “I am excited to run GS with Dan, and with our lineup in GTD, I think we can hopefully be fighting for a podium.

“Dan won on this track just last year and I know he will come out and do the job that I know that he can do. It’s always good to come back to the track with Lone Star Racing as this is my main program this year.

“It feels like coming home in a way, and I am excited to get the best results possible.”