Winning the Indy NXT Championship and earning a spot in IndyAutomobile for 2025 meant it was an important 12 months for me. Winning the title in such dominant fashion was the icing on the cake. This showed how much effort Andretti's team and I actually have put in over the past two years. Our HMD rivals have been quite dominant in recent Indy NXT history, so I'm glad we were in a position to turn it around.
This performance gave me a probability to compete in IndyAutomobile next 12 months with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. I talked to Bobby Rahal all year long, but we got here to an agreement after the season. I can't wait to affix this team since it's an important organization. I spent a number of time attending to know everyone as there have been a number of latest faces and I hope it is a team that I can proceed to push forward with. It's about turning this around and I hope we now have a protracted future where we will be successful.
It was amazing after I announced my entry because my lifelong dream was to call myself an IndyAutomobile driver and develop into an expert racing driver. Thank you to Bobby, Mike Lanigan, David Letterman and the whole team for believing in me. The honeymoon is over and all I'm focused on and need is to do well. It's one thing to be in IndyAutomobile, nevertheless it's one other thing to remain in IndyAutomobile and achieve success. From day one, my attitude was: “How can we prepare for the upcoming season so that we have our feet firmly on the ground and surprise people?” This is my goal. I need to be a nice surprise at first and have a huge impact.
We have winter tests planned and the primary sessions will probably be about teaching me things like commuting, leaving, pit stops, fuel saving, hybrid system and all of the necessary growing pains things that I would like to learn. We can then have conversation with the team concerning the goals for next 12 months and understand what direction we wish the automobile to take.
I did a number of stop training sessions to get a greater take a look at the team and be across the team more because consistency is essential. There is a ton of talent on every IndyAutomobile team nowadays because they’re truly world-class people. I feel the difference shouldn’t be what people you’ve got, but the way you make everyone work together. This is what we concentrate on.
This 12 months's highlight for me was a visit to Barber Motorsports Park. I got here from behind as a result of problems that prevented me from qualifying and finished fifth. For me personally, this weekend was quite successful – I learned lots and realized that even when we now have bad weekends on this championship, we now have the pace to be on the front. That gave me a number of confidence to maintain going and beat all of them for the remaining of the 12 months.
After securing the Indy NXT title, Foster moves to IndyAutomobile in 2025
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When you fight for a championship, you don't start from behind. Once you do that, it's actually a number of fun because you possibly can actually race again. Often within the championship you spend your life near the front and never really have the chance to race against anyone. The weekend we dominated at Laguna Seca was also good, followed by the weekend in Milwaukee where we won the championship. There are numerous activities all year long which was very nice.
The ultimate goal was the championship and once we achieved that, heading into the ultimate race in Nashville, we had nothing left to lose. While I could have been the Indy NXT Champion, that didn't guarantee a spot in IndyAutomobile, so I actually desired to make my mark on the season and end with a victory, simply to make clear my position within the minds of any bosses on the market, that I used to be the driving force to guide their team.
The wins at these were the difference between winning by a slim margin and winning by a slim margin, which we achieved, and prove that I can race and win at any track: road tracks, road courses, and ovals
Racing on the Oval continues to be very latest to me, but after this 12 months I feel more comfortable within the automobile and understand what I would like to do as a driver. A very good result this 12 months meant lots because I had only won one oval race in my profession out of 4 that had began, but now I had eight oval races and won five of them. I feel there was a number of pressure at my competitions, people were giving them hints that they were going to be higher than me on the oval, and I actually desired to make sure that that was quashed immediately.
These oval wins made the difference between winning by a slim margin and winning by a slim margin, which we achieved, they usually prove that I can race and win at any track: road courses, road courses, and ovals. I actually have three disciplines planned, so no IndyAutomobile team principal could have any query marks as as to whether I can do it.
The support from Andy Meyrick and the fellows at Silverstone and the British Racing Drivers' Club has been great. I might like to find a way to come back back more often, especially for the Grand Prix, but next 12 months will probably be difficult. I'd prefer to support BRDC just a little more like I used to, nevertheless it's nice to be racing out of the country, raising the flag for the club and the SuperStars. Next 12 months it might just be me and Callum Ilott as Brits in IndyAutomobile, nevertheless it's great to be a part of the perfect British Elite Athlete programs.
What can Foster achieve in his debut IndyAutomobile campaign?
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