Kyle Larson paid a go to to the McLaren group he’ll race for the 2024 Indianapolis 500 throughout at the moment’s apply session for this yr’s race.
The 2021 NASCAR Cup champion mentioned he’s desirous to be taught as a lot as he can forward of his debut within the race subsequent yr.
“It’s clearly very thrilling,” he mentioned. “It’s been one thing that I’ve wished to do for a really very long time.
“I wished to be affected person and anticipate the timing to really feel proper. Having Hendrick Motorsports be extraordinarily supportive of it and supporting the efforts with Arrow McLaren is one thing that I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about.”
Larson already has skilled of the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval from NASCAR’s visits to the circuit. “I’ve clearly come right here rather a lot in a inventory automotive, I lived within the space for a few years. So this this place for a very long time felt like house or a second house to me.
“For my part that is the most important race on the earth. You wish to be part of the massive ones and hopefully sometime you’ll be a winner of an enormous occasion.”
He spent six years driving for Ganassi in NASCAR however by no means sought a possibility to drive for his or her IndyCar group earlier than being fired by them during the 2020 season.
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“After I was with Chip Ganassi Racing within the NASCAR stuff I feel lots of people – and possibly myself at instances – thought that I might go instantly and try to compete in Indy 500 for Chip. However I wasn’t as achieved but within the NASCAR stuff and I wished to have the ability to not really feel like I used to be taking a ton away from that.
“Now I’ve been in a position to accomplish rather a lot within the NASCAR stuff, Hendrick is clearly all the time a constant front-runner, so I felt like you might take a bit little bit of focus away from that to run the Indy 500.”
He mentioned he’s critical about competing on the entrance in his one-off look subsequent yr. “I don’t wish to simply do that to do it, I wish to do it and take it critical and really feel like I’m ready sufficient to win.
“I really feel like I’m surrounded by nice individuals and looking out ahead to the chance. I’ve obtained 300 and some-odd days left to attempt and prepare.”
Larson is already familiarising himself with McLaren’s set-up on the circuit this weekend. “I feel having this a lot time, understanding that I’m racing subsequent yr, I’m undoubtedly going to pay extra consideration to all of as of late than I might have up to now, sort of see how that every one goes simply to be actually extra ready for the way the couple of weeks of on-track time goes for subsequent yr,” he mentioned. “Simply to not be stunned by something new.
“It’s been good even being right here within the brief period of time we’ve been right here at the moment simply to see how they’ve every thing laid out and the hospitality the place the group hangs out or eats and the engineering room, stuff like that. I didn’t know any of that earlier than I obtained right here at the moment and that is the one day I’m going to have the ability to come this yr. So even simply attending to get eyes on all that may assist little issues like that for subsequent yr.”
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