Whitestown, Ind., February 18, 2026 – REGO-FIX USA has announced its ongoing sponsorship with ECR (Ed Carpenter Racing) for the upcoming 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES racing season. The tooling company has been partnered with the racing team since 2024, establishing a consistent presence within the racing team’s sponsorship lineup. The collaboration brings together two organizations rooted in precision engineering and marks REGO-FIX’s continued presence in high-performance machining for the motorsports industry.
“Precision and performance are crucial, whether that’s machining complex parts or competing at the highest level of motorsports,” said Jeff Schemel, President at REGO-FIX USA and Canada. “Sponsoring ECR aligns perfectly with our commitment to Swiss precision and to providing extreme reliability under pressure. We’re proud to support a team that embodies innovation, engineering excellence, and a drive to win.”
Ed Carpenter is the only racecar driver in the league who owns and operates his own team. The 2026 season will mark ECR’s 15th competitive season, and it has completed over 430 race starts since its first INDYCAR season in 2012.
REGO-FIX toolholding systems, such as the original ER collet and the powRgrip toolholding system, provide Swiss-precision machining to the motorsports industry through engineered solutions that deliver accuracy, rigidity and repeatability in high-pressure environments such as on-track performance.
The REGO-FIX powRgrip toolholding system has assisted ECR in overcoming the unique challenges of high-speed machining. With the use of the company’s toolholders, the racing team has maintained precision and critical surface finishes, extended tool life, minimized tool runout, and shortened cycle times for their productive part processing.
ECR is able to machine parts at full 24,000 rpm spindle speeds for the majority of the time, which would be impossible without the powRgrip toolholding system. As a result, jobs that once took two or three weeks to fulfill are now complete within a couple of hours.
ECR’s ownership group is comprised of four Indianapolis businessmen: Ed Carpenter, Ted Gelov, Tony George and Stuart Reed. Gelov, owner of Heartland Food Products Group, joined the team before the 2025 season and has led the organization into a new era of racing. Heartland FPG is best known for its consumer brands, Splenda and Java House Coffee. ECR will begin construction on a brand-new facility in the coming year and will be located on the Grand Park Campus in Westfield, Indiana.
ECR’s 2025 campaign was its best in several years, highlighted by Christian Rasmussen’s victory in the second-to-last race of the season at the Milwaukee Mile. Rasmussen’s win returned ECR to Victory Lane for the first time since 2021. Coupled with teammate Alexander Rossi’s season-best 4th place result in the same race, it was the first time ECR placed both cars in the Top 5 since 2015. The duo brought home a combined 13 Top 10 finishes in 2025, Rossi’s first with ECR and Rasmussen’s second. Both will continue with the team in 2026, while Carpenter will round out the team’s three-car lineup in the Indianapolis 500.
“REGO‑FIX brings an exceptional level of precision and reliability to everything they do, and that aligns perfectly with the standards we hold at ECR. This partnership strengthens our ability to engineer components with tighter tolerances and greater consistency, which ultimately translates to performance on track. We’re excited about the competitive edge this collaboration will help us unlock,” said Brent Harvey, Engineering Manager for ECR.
In addition to its on-track involvement, REGO-FIX will be hosting its second annual Indy Days motorsports educational event this May at the REGO-FIX Center for Machining Excellence.