He's 100% spot on with that assessment: in the 81 races from the start of the 2018 season through the end of the 2022 season, Rossi qualified on the pole six times (out of a total of seven in his seven-year career), in the top five a total of 34 times and 24 times in the top 10. The last few seasons have produced more lows than highs for the racing marriage of Alexander Rossi and Michael Andretti. But the main thing that's remained is if you look at our qualifying performance, it hasn't really varied from 2018 all the way through the past couple of years.” There's been a variety of reasons as to why it's been a challenge. “Here's the thing, the past two and a half years, three years, have been a challenge. “Yes, sure,” Rossi emphatically said in an exclusive interview with Autoweek. Rossi doesn’t want to be just a contender for the title this year. That’s what happened and now, with roughly five weeks before the start of the 2023 Ind圜ar season, the 31-year-old Rossi is looking forward to a fresh start and potentially see either himself or his two new teammates-Pato O’Ward or Felix Rosenqvist-all very capable, we might add – in winning the 2023 Ind圜ar championship. After capturing two wins in 2019, he’d go winless the next two seasons and managed one visit to victory lane (plus two other podium appearances) in 2022.īy mid-June of this past season, it became apparent to both Rossi and team owner Michael Andretti that both sides had gone as far as they could with the other, they’d done the best they could together and it was best that they part ways. Jamie Squire // Getty Imagesįrom there, it was down, down and down, finishing ninth (2020), 10th (2021) and eighth (2022). The highest the California native and former Formula 1 racer reached in those championship standings was second (2018) and third (2019).Īlexander Rossi reached a career high with his win at the 2016 Indianapolis 500. Even in the year he won the 500, he finished a disappointing 11th in the season standings. Unfortunately, the latter never happened. He’d go on to win Rookie of the Year that season and, if everything went according to plan, he’d ultimately lead Andretti Autosport to several Ind圜ar championships.
When Alexander Rossi won the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 as a rookie in 2016, it appeared as if the Ind圜ar world was his for the taking.
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