Pagenaud has missed each race since his horrendous Mid-Ohio crash in apply final month, which was brought on by a brake failure, as IndyCar’s medical group has refused to clear him to race after he displayed concussion-style signs.
Lundqvist made a extremely spectacular IndyCar debut in Nashville final weekend, qualifying in 11th and working as excessive as third through the pitstop cycles. He was on for a powerful end when he crashed out with 10 laps to go however set the race’s quickest lap beforehand.
“First, I need to say a large thanks to Mike [Shank] and Jim [Meyer] for his or her belief to place me again within the automobile once more,” stated Lundqvist. “The Nashville weekend was nice in so some ways.
“Clearly, a variety of impressions and a variety of new stuff for me occurring that weekend and I used to be fairly dissatisfied with the way in which that it ended. It was my mistake and I loved it up till that time.
“I believe it additionally left me and the group wanting extra, which I’m grateful for one more alternative at Indy. I do know it’ll be powerful once more, however now I’ve a complete race weekend beneath my belt.
“Hopefully we will string some good outcomes collectively and discover some good pace, however I really feel like it’ll be a brilliant weekend.”
Linus Lundqvist, Meyer Shank Racing Honda, with Michael Shank
Picture by: Michael L. Levitt / Motorsport Images
Lundqvist will once more companion full-season MSR driver Helio Castroneves on the Brickyard weekend, which is able to see the IndyCar Collection run at the side of NASCAR. IndyCar runs its 85-lap race on Saturday, its second occasion of the yr on the IMS highway course.
The Swedish racer has 4 begins on the monitor in Indy NXT competitors, ranging from pole in three out of the 4 races. He has two wins on his resume, each of which had been transformed from pole.
Meyer Shank Racing has revealed there will probably be an extra main announcement at Indianapolis on Friday at 11am, which is predicted to heart on four-time Indy 500 winner Castroneves’ future with the group.
Pagenaud posted this message on social media:
