Meyer Shank Racing will give former Williams Racing Method 1 driver Logan Sargeant his first NTT IndyCar Collection check.
The 2-car squad owned by Mike Shank and Jim Meyer has confirmed to RACER that it’ll make use of their last analysis check day to run Sargeant at The Thermal Membership in Thermal, California, the personal facility that transitions right into a full championship occasion subsequent season.
The 23-year-old American will pattern the 17-turn, 3.067-mile street course on November 19 in one of many workforce’s Honda-powered Dallara DW12s.
Beginning in 2023, Sargeant contested 37 F1 races for Williams earlier than being changed by Argentina’s Franco Colapinto in August, which got here after months of hypothesis the Floridian wouldn’t be retained by Williams for 2025.
Anticipating the change of circumstances on the storied grand prix workforce, Sargeant’s supervisor contacted an array of IndyCar groups in current months to inquire about paying alternatives for his shopper.
Regardless of the restricted variety of groups left with the power to rent drivers at this stage of the yr, Sargeant traveled to Nashville Speedway for the September 14-15 season finale to take assembly with a number of groups. The time spent with Meyer and Shank proved useful as they had been impressed with Sargeant’s character; the supply of a check was introduced at Nashville and duly accepted.
The one-day journey to the outskirts of Palm Springs will mark MSR’s street course testing debut for its new technical alliance cast with defending sequence champions Chip Ganassi Racing, which is able to present dampers, chassis setups, and engineering personnel.
The MSR-Ganassi relationship takes its first steps on an oval in October when Helio Castroneves, winner of the 2021 Indianapolis 500, will check, after which strikes to Thermal the place each side of the alliance will get an in-depth have a look at Sargeant’s abilities.
Though MSR and Ganassi haven’t any vacancies throughout their 5 mixed entries for 2025, the check will give Sargeant an opportunity to showcase his skills for any groups which have been desirous to see how he fares in an IndyCar.
