
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.