Ed Carpenter Racing revamps engineering line-up for 2026

Ed Carpenter Racing’s 15th season of IndyCar Series competition will be administered and engineered with an array of new and familiar names in the sport.

Matt Barnes, ECR’s longtime race engineer and leader of its engineering corps, has been promoted to vice president of competition. With Barnes elevated to the overarching role, he’ll hand his former spot on Alexander Rossi’s timing stand to Quentin Montigaud, who came to the team from Formula E and will lead the engineering on Rossi’s No. 20 Chevrolet.

It’s a promotion for Montigaud as well after he joined ECR and served as performance engineer on the car driven by the 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner. The team has added Robert Gue as to its engineering staff as special projects manager; Gue was a fixture at Arrow McLaren before leaving to join PREMA Racing last season.

Race engineering for Christian Rasmussen’s No. 21 Chevy remains unchanged with ECR’s Peter Craik looking after the 2023 Indy NXT champion and 2025 Milwaukee IndyCar race winner.

Amid ECR’s management group, owner and chairman Ted Gelov, CEO and driver Ed Carpenter, and team president Tim Broyles welcome former Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing chief mechanic and team manager Derek Davidson as its new team manager.

Finally, ECR has hired its first full-time strength and conditioning coach in Chase Campbell who will also oversee “daily pit stop practice for both crews and serves as the team’s pit stop coach.”