Craig Hampson’s next stop in the NTT IndyCar Series paddock will be with the Andretti Global team. The return engagement with Andretti comes after a four-year stint at Arrow McLaren where he served as race engineer, R&D engineer, and its director of …
Craig Hampson’s next stop in the NTT IndyCar Series paddock will be with the Andretti Global team. The return engagement with Andretti comes after a four-year stint at Arrow McLaren where he served as race engineer, R&D engineer, and its director of trackside engineering from 2020-23.
Hampson, who engineered Alexander Rossi in the No. 7 Chevy last season, rejoins the Andretti team where he achieved considerable success with James Hinchcliffe in 2013 — the Canadian’s best year in the series where he won three races — and stayed through the 2016 season working as Andretti’s director of R&D.
The New Jersey native, who won four straight Champ Car titles as Sebastien Bourdais’ race engineer at Newman/Haas Racing, is expected to bolster Andretti’s engineering group in a managerial role once he clears the non-compete clause with Arrow McLaren.
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“He’ll join us once his ‘gardening leave’ is over,” Andretti COO Rob Edwards told RACER. “It will be in a senior role on the IndyCar program.”
RACER understands Hampson is targeted for an April start date with the team.
