Dennis Reinbold trusts the long-term vision of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, and he has an eye on what officials are working toward for the future.

As that includes a new car and a subsequent reset of the series’ equipment package, Reinbold said Dreyer & Reinbold Racing would be interested in returning to full-time series participation status.

“If we're going to go full-time, that's the time to do it, when everybody starts from ground zero and builds from there,” Reinbold said. “That's what we would want to do.”

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has focused on the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge for most of the past decade. In fact, next year’s “500” will be the 10th in 11 years that Reinbold’s team will compete just on the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The driver lineup will be Ryan Hunter-Reay, the winner of the 2014 race with Andretti Autosport, and fellow series veteran Jack Harvey.

Reinbold said there have been advantages to solely focusing on Indy, but it would be difficult at this moment to return to full-time status.

“We've learned a lot just focusing on the Indy program,” he said. “So, for us to do (the full season) the right way, (we’d have) to do all the testing necessary to be competitive in every discipline.

“Obviously, we're pointing at 2027 as a bit of a reset (if) there's going to be new cars, new engine programs coming in. We want to look toward being part of that.”

Reinbold, whose grandfather was Floyd “Pop” Dreyer, a legendary race car and motorcycle builder who lived and worked a stone’s throw from IMS, remains a big INDYCAR fan, and therefore he has a lot of respect for what it takes to be a competitive team. His team, which won the 2000 race at Walt Disney World Speedway with Robbie Buhl driving the car, last competed full-time in 2012 with Oriol Servia in the cockpit.

“INDYCAR is awesome,” Reinbold said. “(It has) street courses, road courses, natural terrain (events), smooth road courses, short ovals, superspeedways -- there's a variety of racing. But you can't just show up with the same base package and expect to be competitive from track to track and discipline to discipline.

“There's a lot of work involved, so I don't think we would be able to (presently) do another race post Indy. We've talked about it before; we've done some before. (Being full-time) is just not where our strength and our expertise is at this point in time.”