FREE ENTRY<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cLet me be absolutely clear: I have never said that, and I\u2019ve never even thought it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese rumours come from speculation, and not only is it inaccurate, it\u2019s damaging and frankly offensive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is the complete opposite! I am very happy to be racing in IndyCar.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the series, the competition, the atmosphere, the variety of the circuits; the fans are passionate and the paddock is very welcoming.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, please don\u2019t believe everything you read when it isn\u2019t coming directly from me. If I have something to say about my career or how I feel, you\u2019ll always hear it from me first.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to everyone who continues to support me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shwartzman was on the Ferrari junior roster for several years, winning the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2019.<\/p>\n
He graduated to the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2020 and was fourth in his rookie season. In 2021, Shwartzman was the series runner-up to Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
Shwartzman spent most of 2022 on the sidelines as Ferrari\u2019s test driver and made several practice appearances for the Scuderia and later Sauber.<\/p>\n
Unable to graduate to Formula 1, he turned his attention to GT and sports car racing before returning to open-wheelers by way of IndyCar.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Shwartzman in the #83 Prema Racing Chevy at Gateway. Image: James Black The Russian-born Israeli driver has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,33056,7499,85],"class_list":["post-134078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-ntt-indycar-series","tag-slot4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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