INDYCAR: Ganassi gears up for Sebring test

Chip Ganassi Racing will become the first Verizon IndyCar Series team to hit the testing trail in 2017 when all four of its drivers visit Sebring International Raceway on Thursday.

The team's most recent attempt to test at Sebring (along with Dale Coyne Racing) in early December was met with sporadic rainfall that ruined any change of gathering meaningful data. With CGR's offseason switch from Chevy to Honda engines and aero kits, tomorrow's outing represents a long-awaited chance to log miles and learn with drivers Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, Max Chilton and Charlie Kimball (PICTURED).

"It's been a while since I've been in an IndyCar - since September 18th -  so it will be interesting," Kimball told RACER. "I'm really excited to see how it goes. The Honda will be very different from an engine perspective and an aero perspective. The engineers have worked very hard at coming up with a long test list for all four of us to try, and it will take multiple tests to get through everything we want to understand."

Kimball expects the entire CGR team to be working faster than ever to capture data and driver feedback to assess and use for its next tests.

"It's constant tuning, working with Honda Performance Development to learn engine performance characteristics, and we while can start learning in the workshop, we need as many miles as possible on the track tomorrow so we can make more progress," he added. "You don't know what you don't know until you start turning laps."