Linus Lundqvist has won the NTT IndyCar Series’ Rookie of the Year award.
The 25-year-old Swede, who captured the Indy Lights championship in 2022, showed his prodigious talent in a handful of outings with Meyer Shank Racing in 2023, was hired by Chip Ganassi Racing for 2024, and has produced one of the more impressive rookie campaigns in recent years.
From his third-place finish at Barber Motorsports Park to the pole position at Road America to his second podium — a third at World Wide Technology Raceway — to his sixth last weekend at Milwaukee 1 and leading 19 laps, Lundqvist has been fast and competitive among the inevitable rookie mistakes.
Battling teammate Kyffin Simpson all season, Lundqvist became the third Ganassi driver to win Rookie of the Year honors in the last five seasons, adding to what Felix Rosenqvist achieved in 2019 and Marcus Armstrong produced in 2023.
“We had two candidates for that and both did a really good job for us,” CGR managing director Mike Hull told RACER. “Linus and Kyffin, with the with the drive and determination that they each have, if that would be counted in the voting, they’d both win the award.