{"id":6325,"date":"2023-08-05T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2023-08-08T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:59:05","slug":"lundqvist-impresses-in-first-indycar-qualifying-for-meyer-shank-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/05\/lundqvist-impresses-in-first-indycar-qualifying-for-meyer-shank-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lundqvist Impresses in First INDYCAR Qualifying for Meyer Shank Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lundqvist qualifies 11th, Castroneves 17th<\/em><\/p>\n

Nashville, Tenn. (5 August 2023) \u2013 Linus Lundqvist is no stranger to success on INDYCAR\u2019s Nashville street track, having won last year\u2019s INDY NXT by Firestone event on the bumpy Tennessee layout. Today the Swede reprised some of those positive results into Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) as he took his No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda to the 11th<\/sup> position on the grid for Sunday\u2019s Big Machine Music City Grand Prix (12:00pm ET, NBC, SiriusXM Ch. 160).
\nMaking his NTT INDYCAR SERIES debut as a stand-in for the injured Simon Pagenaud, Lundqvist carded two strong laps on his final two passes around the 2.1-mile Nashville layout to advance to Saturday\u2019s second qualifying round, then followed that performance up with a solid second session with a best time of 1:16.0715-seconds to put him on the inside of the sixth row for the 80-lap race.
\nThe qualifying marked the second time this season that an MSR car has advanced to the Firestone Fast 12 on a road or street course, equaling the effort set by Pagenaud in Detroit that earned him a season-high eighth-place starting spot. Lundqvist\u2019s result was the second-best of the season on a road or street course for the Ohio-based team.
\nHelio Castroneves (No. 06 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) will start 17th<\/sup> on the street course after an opening qualifying session where the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner was close to advancing in his own MSR machine. But a Turn 4 lock up hindered progress forward which put him on the inside of Row Nine for tomorrow\u2019s race.
\nSunday\u2019s 80-lap Big Machine Music City Grand Prix gets underway at Noon p.m. ET. And can be seen live on NBC and Peacock. SiriusXM will also host live IndyCar Radio coverage on XM Ch. 160.
\nMeyer Shank Racing Driver Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linus Lundqvist:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cQualifying in INDYCAR is intense, but I love it. This was exactly what we hoped for and could have asked for. I knew it was going to be extremely tough to transfer out of the first group, but we made a smart choice to go red red [on tires] knowing that it was going to be a struggle here in the Fast 12. Just reaching this point was really good. Great day for us and massive thank you to the team. The AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda was awesome today, massive thank you to everyone and we\u2019ll chip away at it tomorrow.\u201d
\nHelio Castroneves:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur second stint was actually pretty good. I got a little too greedy in Turn Four and locked up the front (tires) and destroyed the right front tire but believe it or not we still had a shot to advance (to Q2) but when I got to Turn Nine, because of that issue and the vibration the car just didn\u2019t turn. But this is probably one of the best cars I\u2019ve had all season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lundqvist qualifies 11th, Castroneves 17th Nashville, Tenn. (5 August 2023) \u2013 Linus Lundqvist is no stranger to success on INDYCAR\u2019s Nashville street track, having won last [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}