{"id":7467,"date":"2024-08-25T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:23:30","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-leads-meyer-shank-racing-indycar-results-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/felix-rosenqvist-leads-meyer-shank-racing-indycar-results-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist Leads Meyer Shank Racing INDYCAR Results in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malukas posts fastest lap of the race and only driver to break into the 0:59-second lap time<\/p>\n

Portland, Ore. (25 August 2024) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing\u2019s (MSR) 150th<\/sup>\u00a0NTT INDYCAR SERIES start likely won\u2019t have its own chapter in team history books, but the two-car squad bounced back from a tough qualifying session to improve several positions in Sunday\u2019s Bitnile.com Grand Prix of Portland.
\nFelix Rosenqvist (No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) kept himself in the hunt for a top-10 finish in the season championship as he came from 18th<\/sup>\u00a0on the grid to finish 14th<\/sup>\u00a0in the 110-lap event.<\/p>\n

David Malukas (No. 66 AutoNation \/ Arctic Wolf Honda) started 25th<\/sup>\u00a0after dropping six positions due to an unapproved engine change and ran strong in the early stints before the need to save fuel and a penalty for exceeding track limits left him to finish 20th<\/sup>.
\nMalukas was one of the early movers in navigating the 1.964-mile, 12-turn Portland International Raceway after trying an alternate pit strategy early in the race that gave him open track to lay down some fast laps. He climbed to 13th<\/sup>\u00a0toward the end of the first round of pit stops and turned the fastest lap of the race (the only 59-second lap) before problems in his second stint dropped him back in the order.
\nRosenqvist was steady all day, gaining a few stops in the early part of the race and holding serve throughout his three pit stops to stay within shouting distance of the top 10. The Swedish driver finished just six seconds out of that top-10 berth to take the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0spot at the checkered.<\/p>\n

The series heads to the famed Milwaukee Mile oval in West Allis, Wisconsin next weekend for the first time since 2015 for a double-header race weekend.<\/p>\n

Meyer Shank Racing Driver Quotes:<\/strong>
\nFelix Rosenqvist:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHard-fought P14, that was kind of all that I had. It just hasn\u2019t been an great weekend for us. I feel like we have just been average and our finish lined up with that. It\u2019s crazy now in IndyCar, if you don\u2019t have the perfect car in the race, you\u2019re not going to really go anywhere. Only left turns from here on out, and we\u2019ve been good on ovals, so let\u2019s move on.\u201d
\nDavid Malukas:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cA weekend of mistakes and errors. It was another character building weekend.\u00a0I made the mistake in qualifying which put us in the position to start in the back. We chose a risky strategy to come in early and use a bunch of overtake and jump as many cars as we could and then fuel save the rest of the race, but it didn\u2019t pay out in the end. It\u2019s always a 50\/50 gamble in these situations and I still back the team in the decision. I really wanted another good result here with the team, but at least few get to turn left, which those races are normally better for me anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malukas posts fastest lap of the race and only driver to break into the 0:59-second lap time Portland, Ore. (25 August 2024) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing\u2019s [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7467","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\/7467","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=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}