2024 INDYCAR Rookie of the Yr Linus Lundqvist On Standby For Nolan Siegel

Bob Pockrass

FOX Motorsports Insider

Linus Lundqvist, the 2024 INDYCAR Rookie of the Yr who has been with out a trip in 2025, will function the reserve/standby driver for Nolan Siegel this weekend at Toronto.

Linus Lundqvist appears on throughout observe for the INDYCAR Collection Bommarito Automotive Group 500 on August 16, 2024

Siegel missed the second race of the Iowa doubleheader weekend Sunday after struggling a light concussion in a tough crash Saturday. He’ll meet with docs on Thursday to find out if he can race.

“There are some protocols,” crew principal Tony Kanaan mentioned. “He must relaxation. We have to preserve a watch if he is sleeping greater than common. Gentle exercise and sim. We will put him on the sim.”

Lundqvist will journey with the crew on Thursday morning and can stay in Toronto both as a standby if Siegel is cleared or because the reserve driver if Siegel remains to be sidelined.

The 26-year-old Lundqvist had two prime fives and 4 prime 10s final yr, as he completed sixteenth within the standings as a rookie for Chip Ganassi Racing. With out sponsorship, he misplaced his trip when Ganassi downsized its INDYCAR program from 5 to 3 groups.

The 20-year-old Siegel is twenty first within the standings in his first full INDYCAR season.

Nolan Siegel at Iowa 2025

Talking after exiting the care middle Saturday, Siegel mentioned the automotive was dealing with otherwise at that time late within the race.

“It was just a little bizarre from the time I left pit lane and hadn’t had a variety of oversteer up till then,” Siegel mentioned. “After which I simply misplaced it in the course of [turns] 3 and 4. I used to be pushing laborious. … There’s not far more to it.”

Kanaan, a wildly widespread former driver with 17 profession wins who was the backup driver for Kyle Larson for the Indy 500, mentioned he didn’t need to drive the automotive.

“I really, really, really love what I’m doing now,” Kanaan mentioned. “I all the time need to drive an INDYCAR, however I’ve no need going towards these guys and get beat.”

Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent many years overlaying motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seaside) Information-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass.