{"id":15309,"date":"2023-08-09T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=15309"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:14:44","slug":"indycar-lundqvist-to-drive-for-msr-at-ims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/08\/09\/indycar-lundqvist-to-drive-for-msr-at-ims\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar: Lundqvist to drive for MSR at IMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>He&#8217;s back! Meyer Shank Racing announces Linus Lindqvist will drive at IMS this weekend.<\/h3>\n<p>After making his long-awaited NTT IndyCar Series debut last weekend in Nashville, where he nearly brought home a top 15 finish, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/meyershankracing.com\/2023\/08\/blomqvist-to-substitute-for-pagenaud-at-toronto-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> on Tuesday that once again <strong>Linus Lindqvist<\/strong> will be manning the wheel of the No. 60 Honda for Meyer Shank Racing for this weekend&#8217;s 85 lap Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Swede will be making his 2nd career NTT IndyCar Series start, both with MSR. The reigning Indy Lights\/NXT champion will attempt to make his fifth career start at IMS, all on the road course.<\/p>\n<p>His previous finishes are (2021 &#8211; P1 &amp; P5), (2022 &#8211; P5 &amp;P1) while adding two pole awards as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Lundqvist had to say in a press release put out by Meyer Shank Racing announcing the decision:<\/p>\n<p>First I want to say a massive thank you to Mike and Jim for their trust to put me back in the car again. The Nashville weekend was great in so many ways. Obviously, a lot of impressions and a lot of new stuff for me going on that weekend and I was pretty disappointed with the way that it ended. It was my mistake and I enjoyed it up until that point. I think it also left me and the team wanting more, which I am grateful for another opportunity at Indy. I know it is going to be tough again, but now I have a whole race weekend under my belt. Hopefully, we can string some good results together and find some good speed, but I feel like it is going to be a super weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 He&#39;s Back \ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/L_Lundqvist76?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@L_Lundqvist76<\/a> will be back with us in the No. 60 for this weekend&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GallagherGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GallagherGP<\/a> \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Official release: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mZ6fnyxbjy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/mZ6fnyxbjy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpsmLGN0e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bpsmLGN0e1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Meyer Shank Racing (@MeyerShankRac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeyerShankRac\/status\/1688912587629686787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The No. 60 entry for MSR has been a revolving seat since its main driver, Frenchman <strong>Simon Pagenaud,<\/strong> had a violent accident at Mid-Ohio, barrel rolling multiple times and still recovering from injuries that occurred from the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Tom Blomqvist drove in Toronto and wasn&#8217;t able to complete a lap due to an early accident. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/07\/02\/indycar-conor-daly-to-sub-for-pagenaud-for-race\/\" target=\"_self\">Conor Daly<\/a> drove the Iowa doubleheader before Lundqvist took over last weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/08\/06\/indycar-kirkwood-conquers-the-streets-of-nashville\/\" target=\"_self\">in Nashville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Prix at IMS will kick off qualifying on Friday, August 11th with the race set for 2:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 12th.<\/p>\n<h5>Featured image credit: Andy Abeyta\/The Desert Sun<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s back! Meyer Shank Racing announces Linus Lindqvist will drive at IMS this weekend. After making his long-awaited NTT IndyCar Series debut last weekend in Nashville, where he nearly brought home a top 15 finish, it was announced on Tuesday that once again Linus Lindqvist will be manning the wheel of the No. 60 Honda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4580,"featured_media":15321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1691492400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Linus Lundqvist to drive for MSR at IMS","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1663],"tags":[1833,1039,1690,2175],"class_list":["post-15309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-indycar","category-ntt-indycar-series","tag-2023-ntt-data-indycar-series","tag-indianapolis-motor-speedway","tag-linus-lundqvist","tag-meyer-shank-racking"],"modified_by":"Justin Russo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}