Siegel signs multi-year deal with Arrow McLaren; Pourchaire out

June 18, 2024

in Racing

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The 19-year-old will take the reins of the group’s No. 6 Chevrolet beginning with this weekend’s spherical at Laguna Seca.

Arrow McLaren has introduced the signing of Nolan Siegel to a multi-year deal, which can start with this weekend’s IndyCar Collection spherical at Laguna Seca.

A 19-year-old California native, Siegel is contemporary off taking the LMP2 class victory within the 24 Hours of Le Mans with United Autosports, the group owned by McLaren CEO Zak Brown.

Siegel will take over the No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet from reigning Method 2 champion Théo Pourchaire, who was introduced simply final month because the group’s driver to run the remainder of the 2024 season except the Indianapolis 500. The 20-year-old Frenchman was initially introduced in to substitute whereas David Malukas – who has since been launched by the group and joined Meyer Shank Racing – recovered from a preseason harm that required surgical procedure.

Theo Pourchaire, Arrow McLaren Chevrolet

Photograph by: Josh Tons / Motorsport Pictures

“Stability and sustained progress are key to our long-term recreation plan right here, and it is a important step in that mission,” mentioned Gavin Ward, Workforce Principal for Arrow McLaren.

“First, I wish to thank Théo for his time filling in on the No. 6 automobile with us in current weeks. We’ve been working by way of musical chairs all season, and finally, making this variation to Nolan now that he’s accessible provides us the possibility to construct a basis for the long run. He’s a younger, gifted driver with an immense quantity of expertise at this stage of his profession and we’re excited to proceed on the upward journey collectively.”

Based on the group’s launch, Siegel will drive the entry “for the ten remaining races this season and 2025 and past.”

In getting into the function with Arrow McLaren, he’ll forgo the remainder of his sophomore marketing campaign in Indy NXT with HMD Motorsports, the place he was positioned fourth within the championship standings.

Siegel’s various driving portfolio additionally contains LMP2 victories in IMSA with CrowdStrike Racing in the course of the 2023 marketing campaign, which got here within the Six Hours of The Glen and Petit Le Mans. He additionally helped declare an LMP2 win within the Asian Le Mans Collection later that very same season with Inter Europol Competitors.

A curler coaster yr for Siegel

This yr noticed Siegel get an early style of the IndyCar Collection, debuting within the non-points exhibition at The Thermal Membership with Dale Coyne Racing in March. He additionally drove for the group at Lengthy Seaside (ending a present profession finest twentieth) and missed making the sphere of 33 after a go-for-broke effort that ended with him crashing in Indy 500 qualifying.

Within the earlier spherical at Street America, Siegel withdrew from his Indy NXT race after receiving the chance to substitute for Agustin Canapino at Juncos Hollinger Racing.

“I’m wanting ahead to leaping proper in with the Arrow McLaren group this week and confirming my place within the NTT IndyCar Collection in papaya shifting ahead,” mentioned Siegel, the 2023 Indy NXT Rookie of the Yr.

“That is an sudden leap, however I’m thrilled to be on this place after a rewarding run within the Indy NXT by Firestone sequence with HMD Motorsports. I’m wanting ahead to this new journey and studying alongside all the group beginning this weekend in my residence state.”