Rosenqvist was 11th driver of the 27 in the XPEL 375 to complete a two-lap qualifying run, and his average of 221.110mph in the Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet around the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway was enough to withstand strong assaults from two Penske-Chevrolets, Takuma Sato’s Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda and his former teammate Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda.
The Swede, who won Rookie of the Year title in 2019 – and took pole on the Indy road course – and scored his first win at Road America in 2020 – endured a torrid first season at AMSP, missing two races due to an accident at Detroit and taking until the latter third of the season to find setups that allowed him to start matching the pace of teammate Pato O’Ward.
