Ward, formerly a Red Bull Racing engineer in Formula 1, replaced Brian Campe on Newgarden’s Penske-Chevrolet in 2018, and therefore played a major role in 13 race wins and a series championship for the 30-year-old Tennessean.
It’s believed that Ward will take an ‘overseeing’ role at Arrow McLaren SP, while Craig Hampson, the squad’s R&D engineer (and Indy 500 race engineer for Fernando Alonso in 2020 and Juan Pablo Montoya in ’21) will become Felix Rosenqvist’s race engineer in the #7 car.
Rosenqvist struggled to match teammate Pato O’Ward on road and street courses for the first two-thirds of the 2021 season, as Arrow McLaren SP runs a very front-end heavy setup, which works well for O’Ward and far less so for Rosenqvist.
Speaking after his McLaren F1 test in Abu Dhabi, O’Ward explained to Motorsport.com the challenges of driving an IndyCar: “Yeah, because the thing is a tank, it weighs a horrendous amount and you need it to be so oversteery to go quick….
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