Indianapolis Motor Speedway | May 14, 2022

It was a challenging race day for Arrow McLaren SP due to ever-changing weather conditions.

Felix Rosenqvist leaves the GMR Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the team's best finish in sixth place. After spending most of the race inside the top-three, Pato O'Ward took a gamble on red tires at the end of the race before needing to pit for wets and finished P19. Juan Pablo Montoya ran inside the top-10 until the final few minutes of the race before retiring due to a crash.

Read what Pato O'Ward, Felix Rosenqvist, Juan Pablo Montoya and President Taylor Kiel said following the GMR Grand Prix.

The next race on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule is the 106th Indianapolis 500 on May 29.

Key info

Round	5/17
Where	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
When	Sunday, May 14
Race time	2 hours
Total race distance	207.32 miles / 333.64 km
Length	2.43 miles / 3.92 km
Number of turns	14
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Starting Position	6th
Finishing Position	6th
Championship Standing	14th, 85 points

"That race had so many swings. We had a perfect race at the beginning. We went one lap longer than Herta and Pato, so we were in the best fuel and tire situation. Everything looked really good but then on the restart, there was contact in front of me and I couldn't avoid it. Pato was able to keep going but I stalled. Then we were a lap behind but we were able to get that back. Finally, on the last stint, we nailed the tire choice and we went from 18th to 6th in the course of about ten laps. That was great. Overall, a solid day and great effort by everyone at Arrow McLaren SP."

Starting Position	5th
Finishing Position	19th
Championship Standing	7th, 126 points

"Today was probably the craziest race I have raced in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. I feel like the team deserved so much more today. I really, really do. Nobody was quicker than us with rain tires and we were really strong in the dry as well. We put ourselves in a position to challenge for the win after spinning but we made a gamble and didn't make the right tire choice. Mother nature brought more rain and made it impossible to drive on slick tires. That's how racing goes sometimes. It was a fun and entertaining race but the outcome was disappointing."

Starting Position	23rd
Finishing Position	24th
Championship Standing	30th, 6 points

"Despite the result, it was a really good day for the No. 6 Arrow McLaren SP team. I told them we had a really good car and that I hadn't used it well all weekend because I have just been behind the car. The extra laps during the race, I started to get more comfortable and started passing people. I was much more comfortable than last year. My engineers have done a really good job with the car. I'm really encouraged for the Indy 500. It's a shame that at the end, I couldn't really see anything. Overall, it was a good race and we should have had a good result."

"Today was frustrating. It was a tough race. There were a lot of decisions to be made throughout the race, with changing track conditions and choosing between the tires, so there were a lot of variables to balance. With Pato, we felt like red tires might be the tire to close the race out with when the rain stabilized but unfortunately we remained yellow for a long time and the track got saturated with water. The gamble didn't pay off there.

"Felix had a great recovery, after contact in the middle of the race, to finish in sixth. That's a great result for him. Juan was running inside the top ten and it just got away from him at the end in the wet conditions.

"It was one of those days where we felt like we had really strong cars and an opportunity to win, and we didn't. We will go back to the drawing board, understand what went wrong, and we will learn. You either win here, or you learn. Now it's time to focus on preparation for the Indianapolis 500."

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