Linus Lundqvist has received the NTT IndyCar Sequence’ Rookie of the 12 months award.
The 25-year-old Swede, who captured the Indy Lights championship in 2022, confirmed his prodigious expertise in a handful of outings with Meyer Shank Racing in 2023, was employed by Chip Ganassi Racing for 2024, and has produced one of many extra spectacular rookie campaigns in recent times.
From his third-place end at Barber Motorsports Park to the pole place at Highway America to his second podium — a 3rd at World Broad Expertise Raceway — to his sixth final weekend at Milwaukee 1 and main 19 laps, Lundqvist has been quick and aggressive among the many inevitable rookie errors.
Battling teammate Kyffin Simpson all season, Lundqvist grew to become the third Ganassi driver to win Rookie of the 12 months honors within the final 5 seasons, including to what Felix Rosenqvist achieved in 2019 and Marcus Armstrong produced in 2023.
“We had two candidates for that and each did a very good job for us,” CGR managing director Mike Hull advised RACER. “Linus and Kyffin, with the with the drive and willpower that they every have, if that will be counted within the voting, they’d each win the award.
“Linus matches the mildew for a contemporary IndyCar race driver as a result of IndyCar racing is now not about one driver on a workforce. It’s concerning the workforce effort. It’s about how race drivers as teammates help one another, and Linus has the talent set to go together with it, the mindset to go together with it, and the sponge-like high quality that it’s essential study from skilled teammates like Scott Dixon and Alex Palou and Marcus Armstrong, who went by means of the identical issues that Linus goes by means of this yr.
“He’s surrounded by high quality folks, a terrific group of individuals general, and he takes full benefit of that. Rookies could have their ups and downs and possibly extra downs than ups within the first yr of IndyCar racing, nevertheless it’s how they arrive out the opposite facet that counts, and he’s able to tackle the following the following stage of IndyCar racing.”
