Felix Rosenqvist’s race weekend bought off to a tough begin after crashing in opening observe for the Good Ranchers 250 at Phoenix Raceway.
The 34-year-old Swedish native was rolling across the 1-mile tri-oval when his #60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda snapped halfway by the nook of Flip 3 and backed laborious into the skin wall. He had logged six laps, with a better of 167.250mph, previous to the incident, which occurred roughly 20 minutes into the one-hour session and introduced out a pink flag. Happily, he was in a position to get out of the wrecked automotive beneath his personal energy, and was seen and launched from the IndyCar Medical Unit.
“I simply misplaced it in Flip 2 on exit,” Rosenqvist mentioned, referring to the previous nook format of the observe.
“I bought a bit of unfastened within the center, sort of recovered after which it snapped once more and I simply could not catch it. Yeah, tremendous, tremendous bummed.
“Very early within the observe, I used to be nonetheless sort of getting on top of things. It is a robust one to save lots of. Large, massive hit, so I hope we will get it collectively.
“Yeah, tremendous bummed for everybody within the crew. The automotive felt fairly good as much as there, just a bit unfastened. See what we will do from right here.”
Because the session drew to a detailed, a consultant with Meyer Shank Racing confirmed to Motorsport.com the crew continues to be evaluating if a backup automotive will probably be wanted as qualifying approaches this afternoon at 2pm ET.
The session ended with Staff Penske’s David Malukas on prime with a flying lap at 175.605mph. Marcus Armstrong, Rosenqvist’s teammate within the #66 Meyer Shank Racing Honda, was sixteenth total with a finest lap of 172.600mph.
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