{"id":10325,"date":"2020-10-29T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.felixracing.se\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:33:41","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-joins-arrow-mclaren-sp-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-rosenqvist-joins-arrow-mclaren-sp-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist joins Arrow McLaren SP for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Felix-DSLR-1024x683-561x374.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Felix Rosenqvist will join Arrow McLaren SP for the 2021 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, driving the No. 7 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosenqvist will partner with Mexico\u2019s Pato O\u2019Ward on the team\u2019s line-up, and is set to get his first taste of the car in an up-coming test at Barber Motorsports Park on November 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to take the next step in my career and join Arrow McLaren SP,\u201d\u00a0<strong>says Felix Rosenqvist<\/strong>. \u201cThe team has shown itself to be a consistent challenger this year and I\u2019m looking forward to working with Pato to help take it forward. I want to thank Sam (Schmidt), Ric (Peterson), Zak (Brown), and the entire team for giving me this opportunity and I\u2019m already working to be as prepared as possible for next season.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI also want to thank Chip Ganassi Racing for our two years together. It\u2019s been a wonderful experience in which I\u2019ve learned a lot, but I feel now is the right time to take up this highly exciting new venture. It is going to be fun.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combining three different entities &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Arrow Electronics<\/strong>, <strong>McLaren Racing<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Schmidt Peterson Motorsports<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Arrow McLaren SP recently completed its first season of NTT INDYCAR SERIES competition, with O\u2019Ward taking fourth in the drivers\u2019 standings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team also capped off a promising campaign with second place in last weekend\u2019s season-finale on the streets of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not very often that you get the opportunity to combine two young, established talents like Pato and Felix,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>says McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown<\/strong>. \u201cI think this pairing gives us a strong driver line-up and I\u2019m excited to see what they can do together on and off the track.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosenqvist joins Arrow McLaren SP on the back of a 2020 campaign in which he scored a breakthrough maiden win at Road America, becoming the first Swedish INDYCAR winner since 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve been watching Felix since he came over to Indy Lights in 2016 and have been constantly impressed by his performance over the past two years,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>says Arrow McLaren SP co-owner Sam Schmidt<\/strong>. \u201cWe think that he and Pato complement each other well and together we believe they will help us on our journey forward as a team.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 NTT INDYCAR SERIES is scheduled to begin with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 7.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JB1_6092-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Rosenqvist will join Arrow McLaren SP for the 2021 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, driving the No. 7 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-okategoriserade","category-press-releases","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10331,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions\/10331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}