It was a disappointing weekend for both Arrow McLaren SP cars at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Pato O'Ward qualified on pole and Felix Rosenqvist started the race from the fourth position. Less than 10 laps into the race, Felix pulled off course with a mechanical issue. By the midway point of the event, Pato was experiencing issues on his No. 5 car. After pitting on Lap 51, the team pulled the car behind the wall and eventually retiring from the race.

Here is what Arrow McLaren SP drivers Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist, as well as President Taylor Kiel said after Sunday's race at Mid-Ohio. The next race on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule is Sunday, July 17 at the Indy Toronto televised on Peacock.

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"Today was a bummer. Apparently, the issue was something fuel delivery-wise, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. Then it just failed. Yeah it is a bummer and frustrating as we have thrown away, I think, an easy podium for us here. We had a lot of pace, and we’ve had a lot of pace throughout the weekend. The No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet was really well put together for qualifying and I tried to do my job the best I could.”

"It's just unfortunate. I had a really, really, really good run. I feel for the No. 7 Vuse Arrow McLaren SP guys who worked so hard this weekend. I think we had a mega weekend going as were off strategy with the black tires and holding our position. We actually managed to move up from fourth to third, so yeah, it's a big loss for the team.

"I just felt like we were sailing out there. I think we showed again we are up there and fighting for podium positions. We just have to come back and do it all better in Toronto."

"Obviously, it was a great qualifying yesterday and one of our best as a team in a long time. We followed up today with our worst result in a long time. We are certainly looking into the issues for failures on both Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolets. It’s very unfortunate, as we left a lot of points on the table today with very strong race cars. This is super disappointing, but we will go home and take the short time we have to find it, diagnose it and solve it before Toronto. We’ll look to turn it around in a few weeks."

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