The Swede struggled to match new team-mate Pato O’Ward on road and street courses in the first two-thirds of last season after joining from Chip Ganassi Racing, and his cause was hurt by a major shunt in Detroit that forced him to miss two races.
However, for this year the team’s director of trackside engineering Craig Hampson has gone from being Rosenqvist’s strategist to become his race engineer, the pair having made notable progress in terms of pace in 2021’s final third.
Hampson won four Champ Car titles on the spin as race engineer to Sebastien Bourdais at Newman-Haas Racing between 2004 and 2007, before spells at Andretti Autosport and Dale Coyne Racing.
“For sure we can’t have a season like we had last year,” said Rosenqvist, who scored a pole and a win in his first two seasons in IndyCar.
“I don’t have to explain all the things that happened, I think Detroit was only a little part to be honest in everything that was going down. We’re excited and we have no…
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