Linus Lundqvist is doing the whole lot he can to proceed his transient profession as an NTT IndyCar Sequence driver.
With Chip Ganassi Racing’s affirmation of Kyffin Simpson within the No. 8 Honda Lundqvist drove to 2 third-place finishes and a pole place on his option to profitable Rookie of the Yr honors, the younger Swede has been involved with the entire groups who’ve seats to fill.
It’s a shrinking quantity that’s down to 5, with two apiece from Dale Coyne Racing and Juncos Hollinger Racing and one at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, and most often, the 2022 Indy Lights champion would wish to deliver a finances to safe the drive.
Signed to a multi-year cope with Ganassi heading into 2024, RACER understands the crew has given the 25-year-old its permission to hunt new alternatives within the IndyCar paddock and elsewhere to take the subsequent step within the sport.
“Optimistic talks are positively occurring, which is good, however as regular inside any enterprise, all ends want to fulfill, and that features monetary ends,” Lundqvist instructed RACER. “In order that’s often what the talks have been about thus far. I do nonetheless assume that there are some alternatives for me to proceed in IndyCar, which is sweet. We’re simply gonna have to attend and see if we will make it occur.”
With a few Rolex 24 At Daytonas on his CV, Lundqvist can also be eager to discover what’s obtainable in IMSA’s WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
“IMSA is one thing that each driver seems very fondly upon and it’s clearly one thing that I’m eyeing as properly,” he stated. “The primary aim remains to be to remain in IndyCar however the IMSA aspect, the sports activities automobile stuff, is unquestionably one thing that I’m taken with, particularly if the IndyCar aspect doesn’t occur. I’m holding a really a lot open door to sports activities automobiles, even exterior of America.”
