. ColtonHerta cites 'heartbreaking' losses in his fourth IndyCar season, and he's ready to try and score his third straight WeatherTechRcwy Laguna Seca win this weekend. FollowAndretti
Herta, Andretti Autosport-Honda teammate Alexander Rossi and Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet’s Felix Rosenqvist lie eighth, ninth and 10After finishing seventh, third and fifth in his first three seasons in IndyCar and scoring six wins, Herta’s drop to eighth having added just one more victory to his tally is something the 22-year-old Californian admits is “pretty disappointing.”
“Long Beach was obviously somewhere I totally messed up, could have had a podium there. And then in the second race on the Indy road course, I think I had it, maybe Alex [Rossi] would have caught me, but whatever, between us we had the fastest cars in the place. “It was just hurtful that week after week the team gave us good cars, usually, and we didn’t or couldn’t maximize our opportunities. It was sad for all of us.”
“But generally, when you’re talking types of track, it’s still the street courses where we expect to do well, that we really seem to have dialed in.” That being the case, the fact that the track owners are due to resurface the track in November leaves Herta uncertain whether he would be able to maintain his stranglehold on the event, were he to remain in IndyCar next year. But he said the work is due.
“In IndyCar, you can come back to a track and teams that might have dominated there in the past just aren’t the same the next year,” he observed. “But we kind of proved that wrong fro 2019 to 2021, so I’m hoping we can do the same. And I really, really don’t want to end the year with just one win and one other podium. Bumping those figures up by one would mean a lot to me.”
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