On Tuesday, Meyer Shank Racing and Felix Rosenqvist agreed to a multi-year contract that starts in the 2024 season. Rosenqvist will enter his sixth season in IndyCar and will replace Simon Pagenaud.
“I’m super excited to start the next chapter of my IndyCar career together with MSR,” said Rosenqvist. “This will be a great opportunity for myself and MSR to elevate and get to the next level together. I’m also pretty excited to get to work with my old friend Tom (Blomqvist) again. I’m ready to start working together and getting the next season started.”
This season, Rosenqvist is 12th in the points standings with one pole, two podium finishes, four top-five, and eight top-ten finishes this year with Arrow McLaren SP. His highest finish came last week at Portland International Raceway finishing second behind Alex Palou.
“We’re very excited to have our 2024 IndyCar plans finalized and to welcome Felix (Rosenqvist) to the team. Felix has been someone that has been on our radar for quite some time now and everything lined up this year to work something out with him,” said Mike Shank.
“It’s no secret that we’ve had a difficult season, with some things out of our control and some things in our control. I think we are all looking forward to resetting completely, starting over, and getting to work. I think Tom and Felix will work great together and really feed off of each other. We will also have Helio with us at every race to provide his feedback and advice which will be an added bonus, so I think we’re in for a solid year ahead.”
Before IndyCar, Rosenqvist won the 2015 FIA Formula 3 European Championship. He is a three-time Formula Renault title winner and is a two-time winner of both Masters of F3 and the Macau Grand Prix. In addition, he won three races in the Formula E Series and finished third overall in the 2016-17 standings.
In five IndyCar seasons with Chip Ganassi Racing and Arrow McLaren SP, Rosenqvist has one win (Road America-2020), four poles, six top-three, and 15 top-five finishes in 78 career races.
Simon Pagenaud was involved in a heavy crash during practice at Mid-Ohio in July and has not returned to the No. 60 AutoNation / SiriusXM Honda. Tom Blomqvist, Conor Daly, and Linus Lundqvist have substituted for him during his absence.
The NTT IndyCar Series wraps up the 2023 season on Sunday from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca at 2:30 pm on NBC.
