Marty Roth has confirmed that his eponymous Roth Racꦬing outfit has hired IndyCar Series veteran, and former Vision Racing team manager, Larry Curry as its ꦑnew chief engineer.

In his role, which takes immediate effect, Curry will not only oversee the set-ups for the #24 and #25 cars driven by IndyCar Series rookie Ja𒆙y Howard and Roth himself, but also will set about restructuring the team's engineering department.

Roth suffered a major pre-Indy 500 blow when a proportion of his engineering team quit ahead of the 'month o🍨🎃f May', but hopes that Curry will bring a guiding light to see the squad through both qualifying and racing at Indianapolis, as well as the rest of the 2008 campaign.

"Having a person of Larry's experience join our organisation, especially as the mo🥃nth of May and the most important race of the season is upon is𒁃, should be a huge boost to us all," the Canadian owner-driver said.

"Although we realise that♍ changing team personnel at 𝓡the season's fifth race may put us slightly behind the eight-ball as we head into the first weekend of qualifying at Indy, we feel that the knowledge and leadership that Larry brings to the team will only make us better as we continue to develop our programme and strive to become more competitive at each race.

"Our team has made huge strides this year. We've added a second car with Jay, who passed his rookie orientation on Sunday, and, aﷺt the last race in Kansas, we posted the best-ever qualifying effort in team history. We fullyಌ expect that, as the season progresses, we will continue to develop and run further toward the front."

Curry was hired by Tony George when the IRL CEO set up his own team back in 2005 but, following technical irregularities being found on both the cars of Ed Carp🎐enter and AJ Foyt IV at this season's opening round at Homestead, the two parties decided that it would be in their best interests to split. Vision has since appoi🌱nted former crew chief Keven Kukuliwicz as its new team manager.

"I had a great three-and-a-half years at Vision Racing, and I want to thank Tony George for his support over the years," Curry commented, "I now look forward to a long tenure with Roth Racing and to the challenges of helping to build the team into a🌼 competitive, first-class organisation."