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Louis Foster secured his first IndyCar pole position at Road America, overcoming recent setbacks and shaving his mustache for charity, with hopes of winning the race for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has revealed the livery for Pietro Fittipaldi's entry in the Indianapolis 500 and Detroit Grand Prix, featuring primary sponsorship from 5-Hour Energy. Fittipaldi expressed excitement about the partnership and the design of the No. 30 Honda, aiming for strong results at both iconic races. The livery reveal follows a trend of new IndyCar liveries featuring red, yellow, and black colors, with Fittipaldi's car continuing the theme with its 5-Hour design.
INDYCAR has scheduled a special 15-minute practice session on Thursday for the No. 24 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevrolet and the No. 44 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda after a practice incident on Monday. The session will allow unlimited install laps but the teams will not be allowed to cross the start-finish line and the Yard of Bricks. The 107th Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for Sunday, May 28.
Stefan Wilson will not race in the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 after suffering a fractured vertebra in a crash with Katherine Legge during Monday's practice session. Wilson was driving for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and qualified 25th. Legge, driving for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, qualified for her third Indy 500 safely in 30th. Both cars were damaged in the crash, but RLL will not run its backup car and instead choose to fix the oval car in time for Friday's "Carb Day" final practice session. Dreyer & Reinbold have not yet announced who will replace Wilson.
Jack Harvey secured his place in the Indianapolis 500 with the final run of the day, bumping his way into the field of 33 and knocking out teammate Graham Rahal. Engineer Allen McDonald praised Harvey's determination and positivity, despite struggling with balance and speed throughout the month of May.
Graham Rahal was bumped from the Indy 500 field by his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing teammate Jack Harvey by just 0.0044s over the four-lap run. Rahal suffered a weightjacker failure during the session, but his first run was good for third behind teammate Christian Lundgaard and Dale Coyne Racing’s rookie Sting Ray Robb. Harvey's average speed of 229.166mph just pipped Rahal’s 229.159mph.
Despite missing out on a podium finish, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing had plenty of reasons to be proud after recording its most competitive NTT IndyCar Series event across all three of its entries in more than a year. Christian Lundgaard finished fourth after a tire strategy that played into the hands of race winner and new championship leader Alex Palou. Lundgaard and Palou went in opposite directions with their usage of Firestone’s primary and alternate tires. Teammate Graham Rahal started eighth and came home 10th, and the third member of the trio, Jack Harvey, was on pace for his best result with RLL after qualifying fourth but was relegated to 20th after spinning on his own.
Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing captured his first-ever NTT P1 Award for the GMR Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, becoming the fourth different pole winner of 2023. Arrow McLaren and Chip Ganassi Racing are the only teams to earn spots in the Firestone Fast Six in each of the opening five rounds. Lundgaard hopes to win the race to end his mustache and bring his brother to the upcoming round on the Honda Indy Toronto. Previous winners Simon Pagenaud, Will Power, Rinus VeeKay, and Colton Herta will also be in the field. Championship leader Marcus Ericsson led the warmup.
Christian Lundgaard secured pole position for the Indianapolis Grand Prix, leading a close group in the Firestone Fast Six session. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team secured pole, fourth, and eighth for the race. Lundgaard's lap of 1m09.3321s was just 0.0027s ahead of Arrow McLaren's Felix Rosenqvist and Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou was only 0.0459s behind. The rest of the Fast Six was rounded out by Jack Harvey, Pato O'Ward, and Kyle Kirkwood.
Christian Lundgaard won his first career pole in qualifying for the GMR Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, becoming the first Danish driver to win an INDYCAR SERIES pole. He edged Felix Rosenqvist by 27 ten-thousandths of a second, as Rosenqvist will start second after a best lap of 1:09.3348 in the No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. Lundgaard led all three RLL drivers in the top eight, as Jack Harvey will start fourth and Graham Rahal eighth.
Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing took the top spot in the second practice session of the IndyGP, with Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing coming in second. Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren was third. The only major adversity was an engine failure in Helio Castroneves' No. 06 Honda. Qualifying is up next.