Santino Ferrucci’s been having one hell of a near the season within the No. 14 Chevy, underscored Sunday at Milwaukee when the AJ Foyt Racing driver set a document for essentially the most passes by any NTT IndyCar Sequence driver in a single 2024 race.
The spirited American ripped via the sphere on a number of events after beginning twelfth, charging ahead and falling again, and performing a complete of 63 passes on his method to fourth-place for Foyt. Mixed together with his run to fourth on Saturday, and the pole the earlier weekend on the Portland highway course and holding tenth within the championship—one of the best for the group in many years this late within the season—Ferrucci has been one of many breakout performers of the 12 months.
“Fairly stout weekend total,” he stated. “Clearly tough to overlook the rostrum twice, however we’ve been working actually laborious at it, and it’s simply so laborious to be aggressive and be within the high 5 on this sequence. The whole lot must be so good. It’s superior for factors. I’ve obtained my very own private objectives of being on a trophy hunt by the tip of the 12 months and we’ve obtained another race to make it occur.”
As soon as a legal responsibility, the Foyt group’s pit crew have been making important annual good points in pace and consistency. Separate from his daredevil passes on quick ovals just like the Milwaukee Mile, Ferrucci credited the No. 14’s group—led by crew chief Didier Francesia—for making the 63 passes potential.
“The crew’s accomplished an awesome job all weekend,” he added. “It’s actually, actually powerful, particularly in these fairly tight turnarounds. Nice job on [pit] stops all day. We solely had one bobble all weekend, however contemplating we did in all probability 10 or so pit stops underneath strain, they did an awesome job. Engineering did an awesome job; throughout laborious to beat.”
