The top four finishers in Sunday’s opening round of the IndyCar Series have credited Chevrolet’s off-season improvements as crucial to their success at St. Petersburg.
The season-opening Florida street track event has been a case of honors even between Chevrolet and rivals Honda for the past eight years, sharing four wins between them. But Honda won 12 of the 17 races last year, with four of Chevy’s wins coming on ovals. After some crunch meetings with its teams in the off-season, Chevrolet swept the top four finishing positions in the 2024 opener – showing a rare dominance in a twin-turbo V6 engine formula that is, in essence, a decade old.
” Pato O'Ward, Arrow McLaren Chevrolet Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images O’Ward revealed the process behind its success by giving details of his team’s meeting with Chevrolet, which was held at McLaren’s headquarters in Woking, UK. “It was like 25, 20 of us at a massive table, and we just hammered down on everything that we wanted to see improvements on,” said O’Ward.