LEEDS, Ala. — Felix Rosenqvist, driver of the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Indy automotive is scheduled to make his one hundredth NTT IndyCar Collection begin this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park.
Within the midst of his sixth season within the sequence, Rosenqvist met with the media Wednesday prematurely of the fourth race of the IndyCar Collection marketing campaign.
“It feels a bit unreal, to be trustworthy. It sort of brings you again somewhat bit to whenever you had been a child, you had been dreaming about driving in IndyCar,” Rosenqvist mentioned of his pending one hundredth race. “Even my first years in IndyCar, clearly nothing you are taking as a right, racing in one of many prime leagues of the world. Now, yeah, it’s been like a quick ahead.
“100 is a giant quantity. That’s quite a lot of hours within the automotive (smiling),” Rosenqvist mentioned with a smile. “No, it’s cool. It’s cool. As I say, it’s nothing that I take as a right. I believe it’s actually the best job on the earth you’ll be able to have.
It’s additionally good that I really feel truly higher than ever within the sequence, as nicely. I most likely had my finest begin in a 12 months that I had. Yeah, thrilling stuff.”
Certainly, Rosenqvist has loved a quick begin this season. With three consecutive top-10 finishes, he ranks fourth within the standings.
“It’s been strong. We haven’t actually had any unhealthy weekends,” Rosenqvist mentioned. “We positively stepped up a bit from final 12 months. Final 12 months additionally had an excellent begin of the season. I believe it’s all the time the way you preserve that by the season.
“Nonetheless early days, however we’re feeling fairly good about issues. We predict our race tempo is a bit stronger this 12 months. Yeah, we really feel like we’re in a great place to really do a bit higher, as nicely. I believe all of us, we’re all the time wanting. We are able to enhance issues right here and there. That definitely goes for this season as nicely.
“It’s not like we’ve been excellent. We nonetheless have a protracted methods to go in sure areas. However very thrilling begin.”
Probably the distinction in Rosenqvist’s quick begin is that Meyer Shank Racing is now aligned with Chip Ganassi Racing as a technical associate after a number of seasons working with Andretti International.
“That’s a giant factor we’ve been engaged on within the offseason,” Rosenqvist mentioned. “We all know we’ve had pace, which we had all 12 months, all season, final 12 months. We most likely had been one of many strongest qualifiers within the area. We maintained that half this 12 months.
“However I really feel like we’re higher within the races. We acquired to the purpose now, okay, we have now this pace, how can we get the factors. It’s all the time within the small issues. It’s pit stops, technique, tire deg, race tempo, simply the way you stream by the weekend.
“I believe the work has paid off thus far in that side.”
Rosenqvist has a constructive strategy heading to Barber Motorsports Park this weekend,” he mentioned.
“I’m not going to let you know that I’m going to go and win Barber. There’s nothing actually saying we couldn’t. I believe we’re getting stronger and stronger each race. I believe we’re positively now a podium contender constantly. I believe it’s going to return. Simply going to maintain doing what we’re doing.”
