Marcelli Joins Racers Edge at Indy 8H

Kyle Marcelli will join Ashton Harrison and Mario Farnbacher to complete Racers Edge Motorsports with WTR Andretti’s lineup for the Indianapolis 8 Hour.

Marcelli, Harrison and Farnbacher will pilot the No. 93 Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 in the final fixture for the Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS season, which also acts as a round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge powered by Pirelli.

The Canadian driver, who recently secured a second consecutive Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America title at the same venue, will make his Indy 8 Hour debut.

He also teamed with Harrison at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Battle on the Bricks earlier this month, where contact from an LMP2 car brought their race to a premature end.

“I’m excited to join the Racers Edge Motorsports with WTRAndretti driver line-up in the Acura NSX GT3 for the SRO Indy 8H,” said Marcelli.

“I feel we’ve got some unfinished business at Indianapolis this year. This will be my first SRO 8H event, but I have followed it the last few years and it proves to be an exciting, intense, GT-only endurance race!

“It will be mostly familiar faces amongst the team and a familiar car, so it should be rather plug-and-play. It will be my first time sharing a car with Mario, and I’m looking forward to that!

“He comes with a wealth of experience and knowledge with this car – I think he’s got more laps in this car than anybody else and it’ll be fun to work with him and learn from him.

“Overall, I think we’ve got a great lineup! Ashton is really strong at Indy and I think we’re all extremely motivated to finish 2023 on the podium or better yet, in victory lane! Thanks to Harrison Contracting for their trust in me.”

Harrison and Farnbacher secured the Fanatec GT Pro-Am title at last year’s Indianapolis event, when they teamed with Christina Nielsen.

They currently sit third in the Pro-class standings behind points leaders Eric Filgueiras and Stevan McAleer as well as the BimmerWorld duo of Chandler Hull and Bill Auberlen after a retirement in Race 2 last time out at Sebring.

However, the results from Race 2 remain provisional after ST Racing signaled intentions to appeal a ruling that stripped Samantha Tan and Neil Verhagen of victory due to a technical infraction for the No. 38 BMW M4 GT3.

“The championship is not over, the fight continues,” Farnbacher said. “We still have a chance to win the championship, so that’s our main focus going into Indy.

“The 8-hour has more strategy than the sprint rounds, and then we also have the IGTC competitors joining us, so I’m really looking forward to those two challenges, and hopefully ending the season with another championship.

“We’ve had good success here in the past, so we’re looking to build on that with the support from Racers Edge Motorsports with WTRAndretti and HPD Racing.”