Sarah Fisher has announced the formation of Sarah Fisher Racing, which will begin competing this year at the Indianapolis 500.
Fisher made the announcement this week at a press conference at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 27-year-old, who has made 67 IndyCar Series starts and who will drive the #67 car in honour of her successful USAC midget car, explained that while it is still early days she is hopeful that she will do at least three more IndyCar series events in 2008.
"We're trying to build outwards from [Indy]," said Fisher. "We have things in place. We're in final negotiations contract-wise with our primary sponsor. Things are looking really good.
"We would love to run Texas, Chicago and Kentucky. We would love to have some more opportunities, and we're working on those constructively.
"As a first-year start-up team, we know it's small. We want to build the right way though. Our 2009 programme actually looks a lot better than our 2008 programme. That's real exciting to us and hopefully we can be in a lot more races come that time."
Fisher, who raced with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in 2007, added that she has been thinking about setting up her own team since the summer.
"Going into the off-season this year, I kind of looked at all my options and evaluated sort of where I wanted to go and what my plans were big picture-wise. The best option for me was to start my own team because I think in the long run that's a better plan for us and for me going forward," she continued.
"It didn't start just one day in January that we decided we were going to start Sarah Fisher Racing. It's been in the plans and it's been in the works since around August. I didn't just wake up one morning and do it.
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