9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda and Marcus Ericsson, who is nine points out of the lead in second place, starts 18th in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, Dixon 14th in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet and Newgarden sixth in the No.
10 NTT DATA Chip Ganassi Honda with O’Ward fifth in the No. Dixon’s teammate, Alex Palou, also in contention and is defending his championship.īut McLaughlin will have a head start today on those drivers. Among those are Team Penske teammates Will Power, the series leader and 2014 champion, and two-time title winner Josef Newgarden, plus six-time series champion Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing. McLaughlin also must climb over some series heavyweights, four of which have combined to win 10 season championships.
This is Grosjean’s best starting position since winning the pole for the GMR Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in May 2021. 2 starter Romain Grosjean, who has yet to win a race in this series. He figures to get a strong challenge from No. Obviously, McLaughlin has a lot of ground to cover and make up, and it begins with today’s 80-lap race around the 11-turn, 2.1-mile temporary street circuit. These are four tracks that I really enjoy.” “There’s no reason why we can’t go on a run. “I’ve said it all along, I feel like a little bit of an underdog in this,” McLaughlin said of the title pursuit. McLaughlin is 81 points out of the series lead, but he soon will receive a bonus point for winning the NTT P1 Award on Saturday and odds are good that he will lead a lap given his front-row starting position. 3 DEX Imaging Team Penske driver is the seventh driver in the standings as the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix lines up in Nashville as the 14th of the season’s 17 races. Many followers of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES have noted this is the closest top-six battle this late in the season in the history of the series’ current 20-plus-year points structure.īut Scott McLaughlin says, why not make it seven drivers in this championship hunt?
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