IndyCar at IMS: Andretti Autosport Sweeps Road Course Races as Alexander Rossi Snaps Streak | IndyCar

Every driver loves the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but Rossi has one of the greatest victories at the track, when he won the 2016 Indy 500 as a rookie. The Andretti Autosport driver racked up six more wins over the next few years, and was seemingly on his way to a championship. He hit a snag in 2019, which resulted in a 49-race winless drought. That finally came to an end today at the venue where he won his first race.

“Relief, I think is the main word,” Rossi said after leading 44 laps. “We’ve had some race wins that we’ve thrown away for sure, and we’ve had some weekends where we’ve just kind of not had the pace. We knew things were trending in the right direction. The one constant has been the mental strength of the whole team. It’s a big team win and a big thank you to the organization.”

“The one constant has been the mental strength of the whole team,” Rossi said. “As challenging as it is for me, it’s also hard for them. They go in every day and work their butts off, and when they don’t get results, it’s hard for them, as well. As a unit, that’s one of our strengths, being able to continue to just push forward.”

“It’s human nature to start to question things when it continually doesn’t kind of fall your way. You just have to remember that you’ve done it before, you can do it again, type of thing. It’s nice to reestablish that, and this sport is so much about you’re as good as your last race, it doesn’t matter who you are. You have to go out there every weekend and kind of re-prove yourself.”