The final full-time seat on the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series grid has been filled with a pair of rookies in Canada's Zachary Claman De Melo and Brazil's Pietro Fittipaldi. Although the Dale Coyne Racing team has yet to make its formal confirmation of the two, it's believed Indy Lights race winner Claman De Melo will pilot the No. 19 Honda in 10 rounds and reigning World Series Formula V8 3.5 champion Fittipaldi – the grandson of Formula 1 and Indy car champion Emerson Fittipaldi – will be in the seat for the other seven. The exact dates each will fill is unknown, although with Fittipaldi scheduled to test Thursday to Saturday at the one-mile Phoenix oval while Claman De Melo spectates,...
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