Meyer Shank Racing Launches Arduous Summer Schedule With Detroit Street Fight

Indianapolis, Ind. (28 May 2025) – A solid Indianapolis 500 run behind it, the Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) team faces its toughest stretch of the season, as the NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule powers into the summer with a skein of eight races in nine weeks, starting with this Sunday’s Detroit Grand Prix (12:30pm ET, FOX, SiriusXM ch. 218).
MSR earned its second top-five Indy 500 result last week in a race where all three of its cars finished for the first time in team history. The two-car outfit added a third entry for Helio Castroneves for the second straight season and he went out and earned the 18^th top-10 Indy 500 result in his storied career.
This week’s race will be a stark contrast to the wide-open speeds of Indianapolis as the Detroit race will take place on the 1.645-mile street course that surrounds the cylindrical towers of the Renaissance Center.
Felix Rosenqvist (No. 60 SiriusXM Honda) used his fourth-place run at Indianapolis to vault into fourth in the series standings after six races, continuing a solid start to the campaign that has seen the No. 60 car earn three top fives and five top-10 finishes.
The Swedish driver hasn’t suffered with the change in venue when the Detroit event shifted from its long-time home on Belle Isle in 2023 to its new downtown perch. Rosenqvist scored a podium in the first downtown race and then climbed 14 positions from 22^nd on the starting grid to take his MSR machine to an eighth-place run last season.
Marcus Armstrong (No. 66 Root Insurance Honda) has an eerily similar resume on the streets of Detroit and comes into the weekend after finishing the Indy 500 for the first time in his young career. Armstrong, who joined MSR for the 2025 season finished eighth in the debut of the new nine-turn circuit then scored the first and only podium of his career with a third-place run there a year ago. The New Zealand-born Armstrong sits 15^th in the point standings but is just seven markers out of the top 10.

Armstrong heads into the Detroit weekend back with Root Insurance and is hoping to once again claim another podium finish on the streets of Detroit.

The weekend features three days of running, beginning with a single practice at 3:05 p.m. Saturday features another practice that leads into a 12:30 p.m. qualifying session (FS1). Sunday’s 100-lap Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix gets underway at 12:30 p.m. and can be seen live on FOX. Sirius XM Radio will also carry live coverage of all sessions on IndyCar Radio, XM Ch. 218.
Meyer Shank Racing Driver Quotes:
Felix Rosenqvist: “I’m ready for the quick turnaround for Detroit. It’s literally the most opposite track to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which makes it one of the craziest back-to-back weekends I’ve has good success in Detroit and I’m very focused on maintaining our momentum in the 60 car.”
Marcus Armstrong: “I’m very excited to get back on the streets of Detroit and return to a circuit where I got my first INDYCAR podium. I’t s a crazy race usually, so we will see what the Detroit weather has to throw at us, but I’m guessing it’s going to be chaos. But it’s going to be a fun weekend and I’m really looking forward to it.”