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Season-ending pole, efficiency a peek into Kyle Kirkwood’s potential
IndyCar

Season-ending pole, efficiency a peek into Kyle Kirkwood’s potential

By Miles Cooper October 30, 2024
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Kyle Kirkwood could have ended his 2024 IndyCar Collection season with a goose egg within the win column, however he nonetheless displayed nonetheless loads of development and promise over your complete yr.

The 25-year-old native of Jupiter, Florida, wrapped up his third season — second behind the wheel of the No. 27 Andretti International Honda — with one podium, 5 high fives, 13 tops 10s and one pole. Moreover, he had the seventh-most laps led on the yr by all drivers with 121. 

Whereas Kirkwood has shortly established his presence on avenue circuits, with each of his victories final yr happening at Lengthy Seaside and the non permanent course in downtown Nashville, there was an emphasis placed on his enhancing on ovals. And this yr noticed an uptick in precisely that, which vaulted him to a career-best seventh within the championship standings.

Season-ending pole, efficiency a peek into Kyle Kirkwood’s potential

Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti International Honda, Josef Newgarden, Crew Penske Chevrolet lead initially

Picture by: Phillip Abbott / Motorsport Pictures

Kirkwood steadily progressed on ovals, capturing seventh within the Indianapolis 500 earlier than seventh at Iowa Speedway (Race 1) and eighth in IndyCar’s return to The Milwaukee Mile (Race 2). The showcase of his development, although, got here within the season finale change to Nashville Superspeedway, the place he earned his first pole on an oval with “a rocket ship” that led 67 laps and completed fourth — his greatest end result on the monitor self-discipline. 

“, I inform you that is probably the most important factor I take from this season is that this race proper right here (in Nashville),” Kirkwood instructed Motorsport.com. 

“Everyone is aware of I’ve been good at avenue programs, everyone is aware of I’ve been respectable at street programs; the place individuals query my skills have been at ovals — perhaps not the (Indy) 500 as a result of I feel I’ve achieved a reasonably good job there just lately — however brief ovals.” 

And he famous how the 1.33-mile oval in Nashville is harking back to Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile monitor the collection final raced at in 2023.

“Like Texas, for example, I feel individuals are likely to probably not examine me off as one of many opponents there,” stated Kirkwood, the 2021 Indy NXT champion. 

“This place is very similar to Texas and clearly, this was a extremely good tempo for us and the No. 27 guys. So, big takeaway for us to finish the season with this. It’s simply going to construct confidence for myself on ovals.”

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