Up to now, so good for Myles Rowe and ABEL Motorsports.
Rowe led the Chris Griffis Memorial Check for Indy NXT drivers on October 18 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the crew he has joined for the 2025 season, ABEL Motorsports. Rowe’s high time was 1m15.1848s within the No. 99 ABEL Motorsports with Drive Indy automotive, turned throughout the afternoon session on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile street course.
“Taking it step-by-step,” Rowe stated. “I’m doing what I’m speculated to do. We’re on the best path. We’re getting someplace.”
2023 USF Professional 2000 champion Rowe joined the ABEL crew for the 2025 season after racing for HMD Motorsports in his first season of the IndyCar improvement sequence in 2024. He positioned eleventh within the standings, recording two top-five finishes.
Collection newcomer Dennis Hauger made an sturdy debut by ending up second at 1m15.3285s within the No. 28 Andretti World automotive. FIA Formulation 3 champion and FIA Formulation 2 race winner Hauger, from Norway, led the morning session at 1m15.6896s.
One other Andretti World and sequence newcomer, 2024 USF Professional 2000 champion Lochie Hughes, was third total at 1m15.3736s within the No. 26 machine. Collection veteran Callum Hedge was fourth at 1m15.4443s within the No. 17 ABEL Motorsports automotive.
Liam Sceats rounded out the highest 5 at 1m15.5162s within the No. 30 HMD Motorsports automotive. USF Professional 2000 veteran Sceats has not been named to a automotive but for the 2025 Indy NXT season however grabbed consideration up and down the IMS pit lane along with his efficiency.
Twenty-two drivers from six groups mixed to show 1,572 laps throughout the take a look at, named in reminiscence of Chris Griffis, the crew supervisor of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports who handed away abruptly in September 2011.
The 2025 Indy NXT by Firestone season begins Sunday, March 2 on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.