Sweden’s Linus Lundqvist is a quadruple single-seater champion, clinching the 2022 INDY NXT championship, the 2020 Formula Regional Americas title, the 2018 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship and the 2016 Formula STCC Nordic crown. In 2024, he will race the #8 American Legion Honda for Chip Ganassi Racing in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES.
Linus Lundqvist masters the conditions to win again in Indianapolis
Linus Lundqvist kept his cool in changeable conditions to score his second victory of the season and extend his Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires championship lead with a commanding drive at Indianapolis Motor Speedway…
Championship lead extended with latest wet/dry demonstration
Swede caps off eventful Indy Lights weekend on top of the podium
Linus Lundqvist kept his cool in changeable conditions to score his second victory of the season and extend his Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires championship lead with a commanding drive at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Lundqvist entered this weekend’s double-header event in Indiana on the back of his first win of the campaign last time out at Barber Motorsports Park, and duly continued to set the pace in INDYCAR’s top-level support category.
Lundqvist powered to a brace of pole positions in qualifying, and went on to control the final race of the meeting in emphatic style – leading from start to finish despite having to overcome a five-hour mid-race suspension triggered by lightning in the circuit area.
The added complexity of changeable conditions – with the first part of the race taking place in the dry, and the second part in the wet – did little to stop Lundqvist’s road to victory, the HMD Motorsports racer comfortably taking home the win.
“It’s been a long day, but boy was it worth the wait!” says Linus Lundqvist. “Getting out there on wets for the first time of the weekend in the middle of a race was certainly a bit special, but I felt comfortable in the car from the get-go. I was able to pull away and start looking after the tyres, and just bring it home. It’s great to win again and a massive thanks to the team, of course.”
In Race 1, staged on Friday, Lundqvist again had taken the early lead from pole, only for any victory hopes to be dashed by a clash with Denmark’s Christian Rasmussen.
With Lundqvist forced to pit for repairs, rejoining in 14th and last place, a subsequent fightback to P5 – and the fastest lap of the race – marked adequate damage limitation.
With his latest victory, Linus Lundqvist now extends his championship lead from nine points to 34.
The Indy Lights campaign resumes on the streets of Detroit on June 4-5.
Race 2 1: Linus Lundqvist (SWE), 35 laps 2: Christian Rasmussen (DEN), +3.599s 3: Sting Ray Robb (USA), +7.629s 4: Benjamin Pedersen (DEN), +12.807s 5: Jacob Abel (USA), +13.000s
1: Linus Lundqvist (SWE), 175 p. 2: Danial Frost (SGP), 141 p. 3: Sting Ray Robb (USA), 137 p. 4: Benjamin Pedersen (DEN), 131 p. 5: Matthew Brabham (AUS), 119 p.
