{"id":17204,"date":"2024-09-11T14:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/?p=17204"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:00:51","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-determined-to-end-on-a-high-in-indycar-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-rosenqvist-determined-to-end-on-a-high-in-indycar-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist determined to end on a high in INDYCAR finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Felix20Rosenqvist20-20Hy-Vee20Milwaukee20Mile2025020-20By_20Joe20Skibinski_Large20Image20Without20Watermark_m117126-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Felix Rosenqvist is looking to bow out with a frontrunning performance as the 2024 NTT INDYCAR SERIES draws to a close this weekend with the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway.<\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br>About to complete his first season with the Meyer Shank Racing team, Rosenqvist can look back at a largely promising year of transition aboard the #60 MSR Honda, and is keen to end on a fitting note in the season-finale.<br>&nbsp;<br>While INDYCAR returns to the D-shaped, 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway for the first time since 2008, the Tennessee oval is a completely new acquaintance for Rosenqvist \u2013 but the Swede is adamant that won\u2019t detract from his high-held ambitions.<br>&nbsp;<br><em>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible how quickly a season goes by, and here we are at the grand finale,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>says Felix Rosenqvist<\/strong>. \u201cI have never turned a lap at Nashville Superspeedway, while several of the others tested there earlier this year, but to be honest that really shouldn\u2019t be too much of an issue. I have plenty of experience by now and I feel well-prepared to go out and fight for that final win.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><br>&nbsp;<br>Boosting his presence as the campaign concludes, Rosenqvist will be sporting a new livery this weekend featuring Diplo\u2019s Revolution, the SiriusXM channel of multiple Grammy Award-winning artist Diplo (who also will DJ the pre-race driver introductions on Sunday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-1024x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-1024x501.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-768x376.jpg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-1536x752.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MSR-AN-Diplo-Nashville-left-front-3Q-hi-2048x1002.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Rosenqvist enters the championship finale sitting 12th\u00a0in the overall standings, with an outside chance of making the top ten.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><em>\u201cI\u2019m really excited,\u201d<strong>\u00a0Felix Rosenqvist concludes<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got good pace in the car, another cool collaboration with SiriusXM \u2013 in Music City of all places \u2013 and a lot of motivation to end on a high. Nothing really to lose either, so we\u2019ll just have to keep an eye out for the weather which looks like it could be a bit unsettled.<br><br>&#8220;I\u2019m feeling so much positive energy in this team and I really want to round out our first season together in the best possible way.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br>The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix is scheduled to get underway with practice and qualifying on Saturday. The 206-lap race is slated for a 2:30 pm start local time (U.S. Central) on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>TIME TABLE<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All times local (U.S. Central)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NTT INDYCAR SERIES | Rd. 17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Big Machine Music City Grand Prix<\/strong><br>Nashville Superspeedway (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday September 14<\/span><\/strong><br>Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 am<br>Qualifying: 1:15-2:15 pm<br>High Line Practice:\u00a04:15-4:45 pm<br>Practice 2: 5:00-6:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sunday September 15<\/span><\/strong><br>Race (206 laps): 2:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>TIMING:\u00a0<\/strong>INDYCAR App \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=73c511cfcad65d2a124d92dea&amp;id=d976c67ee7&amp;e=1e3d42ce61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">racecontrol.indycar.com<\/a><br><strong>HOW TO WATCH:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/ways-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">view here<\/a><br><strong>TRACK DATA:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/Schedule\/2024\/IndyCar-Series\/Nashville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">view here<\/a><br><strong>CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/Standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">view here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Rosenqvist is looking to bow out with a frontrunning performance as the 2024 NTT INDYCAR SERIES draws to a close this weekend with the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix at Nashville Superspeedway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[130,97],"class_list":["post-17204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-press-releases","tag-2024-ntt-indycar-series","tag-big-machine-music-city-grand-prix","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\/17204","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=17204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17210,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17204\/revisions\/17210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}