Trying Weekend for Meyer Shank Racing in Milwaukee Double-Header

West Allis, Wisc. (1 September 2024) – Meyer Shank Racing’s (MSR) showed grit in the face of adversity in the year’s penultimate NTT INDYCAR SERIES race, fighting to make the best of tough circumstances in Sunday’s Hy-Vee Milwaukee Mile 250, the second race of a doubleheader INDYCAR weekend.
The potential was there on Saturday with David Malukas (No. 66 AutoNation / Arctic Wolf) Honda starting on the front row and Felix Rosenqvist (No. 60 AutoNation / SiriusXM) Honda in eighth.  With several yellows during the 250 lap race, both MSR cars found themselves on the wrong side of the caution periods, which dropped each entry down the order.

Rosenqvist finished out the race 13th while Malukas brought home the No. 66 machine 15th.

As he did in Saturday’s opener, Rosenqvist led the charge for MSR, running hard after an early issue cost him a lap to finish a solid 11th on Sunday.
The Swedish driver started eighth after posting his 10^th top-10 qualifying result of the season and was fifth as the first round of pit stops started at the venerable one-mile Wisconsin oval. Unfortunately Rosenqvist lost a lap midway through the race after a loose wheel sent him back into pit lane to get tightened. From there Rosenqvist was sent into a race-long fight to get back in the lead pack, but the No. 60 team fought through six pit stops to finish just outside the top 10.
Malukas started a solid ninth but fell victim to a mechanical issue on Lap 63. The team took the car back the garage and was able to return it to competition, moving up to 22^nd late in the race to add two important entrant points to the MSR account in the season-long Leader Circle standings.
The series will take a week off before heading to Nashville Superspeedway for the September 15 season-ending Big Machine Music City Grand Prix.

Felix Rosenqvist: “Not the weekend we wanted. We had a pretty good shot today and we were running fifth before we had a loose wheel in the pit stop so we had to come in again. We drove a great race from there on, and drove back to 11th. I gave it everything to see if there was some chance we could move up more, but we just didn’t have the luck to get our lap back. I had a great car today and I think there was a lot of potential.”
David Malukas: “Luck just doesn’t seem to exist for us. On the plus side, the car was really fast. Even at the end there when we went back out, we were one of the fastest cars out on track. We were P4 before things went south and everything was looking really good. We learned everything we needed to from race 1 and that’s really the big takeaway from the weekend. We scraped a few points, but unfortunate weekend for us. We have one more race left so hopefully all of the bad luck is gone. I really want to finish this season on a high.”