{"id":7115,"date":"2024-06-02T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2024-06-02T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T23:38:24","slug":"meyer-shank-racings-rosenqvist-takes-hard-earned-top-10-in-detroit-indycar-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/02\/meyer-shank-racings-rosenqvist-takes-hard-earned-top-10-in-detroit-indycar-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer Shank Racing\u2019s Rosenqvist Takes Hard-Earned Top-10 in Detroit IndyCar Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit, Mich. (2 June 2024) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) made Sunday lemonade out of a bushel of Saturday\u2019s lemons as Felix Rosenqvist (No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) came from 22nd\u00a0on the grid to finish a hard-fought eighth in today\u2019s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.
\nAfter sustaining damage from contact early on in the race, Helio Castroneves (No. 66 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) held on to finish 25th.
\nRosenqvist overcame his first rough qualifying session of the 2024 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season to score his fifth top-10 result of the campaign, gaining 14 spots over 100 trips around the 1.645-mile, nine-turn street course located in downtown Detroit.
\nThe Swedish veteran made his way through the field by avoiding the maelstrom that swirled around the first 50 laps of the day. Seven caution periods and a brief rain shower scrambled pit strategies and upended track position all day, but Rosenqvist dodged the numerous incidents to claw his way through the field. His charge was helped by strong tire management and a key strategy call as MSR eschewed a tire change to make up ground on his last pit stop, and Rosenqvist made his Firestone primary tires last over the final 56 laps.
\nCastroneves\u00a0made his first non-oval start of the season after taking over for rookie Tom Blomqvist for the next two races and had some good fortune early, climbing seven positions to 18th\u00a0by skirting a first-lap accident. The optimistic outlook didn\u2019t last long however as Castroneves spun after being hit from behind by the No. 14 car on Lap 17, causing a broken right-rear tow link that cost the No. 66 MSR team five laps to repair. He returned to the track and finished five laps down in 25th.
\nRosenqvist\u2019s workmanlike effort made him one of just six drivers to have as many as five top-10 results over the year\u2019s first six points-paying races. The driver of the No. 60 car that carried the livery of SiriusXM channel Smokey\u2019s Soul Town (SiriusXM Channel 74) honoring Motown legend Smokey Robinson, is provisionally ninth in the points, but is now just 10 markers out of a berth in the top five.
\nMSR was fortunate to have Smokey Robinson on-site on Sunday, with the Motown legend seeing his personalized livery in person in addition to serving as Detroit Grand Prix Grand Marshal.
\nMSR will wrap up a spate of three races in three weeks next Sunday as it travels to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin for the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America.
\nMeyer Shank Racing Driver Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Felix Rosenqvist\u00a0<\/strong>– Started 22nd, finished 8th:\u00a0\u201cWe finished P8 which I\u2019ll take. We had a puncture on the first lap and then we were actually really quick on the reds and then the tires just went off [pace], and then it started raining. Everyone kind of ended up on the same program and we were around P8, P9. We just kind of hung there. We didn\u2019t have great pace and we trimmed a lot, so we were good on the straights. We got hit a couple of times so we had damage so I was just focused on bringing it home. It was a great points day for the team overall.\u201d
\nHelio Castroneves<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Started 26th, finished 25th:\u00a0\u201cWow, what a race. It was unfortunate that we got hit toward the beginning of the race and we had some damage in the rear. But good work from the guys to get it fixed and send me back out. Unfortunately after that we were just kind of running in the back and since we were a few laps down, we were just focusing on bringing the car home at the end. I don\u2019t think we necessarily had the car to win today, but I think we could have hung around the top 12.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detroit, Mich. (2 June 2024) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) made Sunday lemonade out of a bushel of Saturday\u2019s lemons as Felix Rosenqvist (No. 60 AutoNation [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7115","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\/7115","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=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}