It has created hope for strong results from MSR on Saturday night at the final oval on this year’s Ind圜ar calendar. In three Ind圜ar races, his average finish is 2.3. In six career starts spanning both CART and Ind圜ar, Castroneves has one victory and has never finished lower than ninth. Louis, where Castroneves has an impressive record. They race Saturday night at World Wide Technology Raceway Gateway outside St.
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It’s hardly been the breakout season Shank had expected when Castroneves’ program was expanded into a full season and Simon Pagenaud became available at the same time Jack Harvey, the team’s first driver, left for Rahal Letterman Lanigan.Ĭastroneves is 18th in the standings, has led only one lap all year and finished seventh at Indy Pagenaud is 12th in the standings and was eighth at Indy, and Shank believes will have a strong close to his first season with MSR. He wants to stay involved, he wants to use what he’s strong at, and we support him 100%.” I think he’d like to do at least one more (full) year and then maybe try just Indy? And then do some other things, too. “He’s very emotional about this, he’s going down swinging. “I don’t want anyone else to win a fifth Indy 500,” Shank told The Associated Press. Castroneves, 47, is insistent he’s got plenty of gas in his tank. Michael Shank believed in the popular Brazilian and last year’s Indy win led to a full season at MSR’s expanded two-car organization. Castroneves won his fourth Indy 500 in 2021 driving a part-time schedule for MSR as Castroneves was desperately fighting off a forced slide toward retirement.
MADISON, Illinois - There was no chance Meyer Shank Racing would risk four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves making history with another team.Ĭurtailing that possibility, the team announced a one-year contract extension Friday that will bring Castroneves back for a 26th full Ind圜ar season.
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