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Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Hamilton Spectator
Pato O'Ward wins Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto, ending frustrating run in Canada
TORONTO - Mexico's Pato O'Ward has always enjoyed the sights and sounds of Toronto, it's just the IndyCar Series race around Exhibition Place he didn't like, struggling year after year on the street course. O'Ward finally won the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto on Sunday, for the seven-year veteran's first victory in Canada. A pep talk from Arrow McLaren team principal Tony Kanaan to the crew the night before, some solid strategy, and a little bit of luck made the win happen. 'It's a big day. It's a very big day,' said O'Ward at this post-race news conference. 'It feels pretty special in a place that has arguably been one of the biggest headaches every single year that we come here.' Like most of the drivers in the 11-turn, 2.874-kilometre race, O'Ward started on a set of less-favourable alternate Firestone Firehawk tires. He had them switched out in his first pit stop just ahead of a Lap 3 caution. That meant O'Ward only had to use the less-favourable set for the better part of two green-flag laps. Although that strategy forced him into a three-stop race, he was able to run the primary compound the rest of the way. 'It's a really good feeling that we didn't just nail the strategy and get lucky, but we also had to earn our win today,' said O'Ward. 'It wasn't given to us. We had the car to be able to do that.' Kanaan, the IndyCar Series champion in 2004 and the winner of the 2013 Indianapolis 500, said he was sick of the narrative that O'Ward and Arrow McLaren struggle in Toronto. 'It hasn't been historically a good weekend for us here, which I didn't want to hear that coming in here,' said Kanaan. 'I was never that type of person. 'As a team, we got together last night and I said, 'Let's change that.' (...) I don't want to believe that's why we won, but...' Rinus VeeKay of the Netherlands finished second and Kyffin Simpson of the United States placed third. Defending champion Colton Herta, who started in pole position on Sunday, was closing in on Simpson with a handful of laps to go when a caution solidified the podium. 'Definitely the final part, looking forward, really trying to close the gap to Pato, it was really hard to close,' said VeeKay. 'I think the track didn't really allow many overtakes. 'All three of us were kind of hovering around the same pace, closing in, making the gap bigger at times. It wasn't very exciting at the end, but it was a lot of work in the car.' Although VeeKay felt there wasn't a lot of opportunities to overtake at the front of the pack, there were actually many passes in the 90-lap race around Toronto's downtown fairgrounds. There were 226 on-track passes (most in the event since 2014) and 201 passes for position (most since 2019). Spain's Alex Palou, the overall standings leader, finished 12th on Sunday, losing significant ground to O'Ward in the points list. O'Ward entered the weekend trailing Palou by 129 points, but cut that to 99 points with four races left in the season. 'We need to make sure that we continue to have days like today, not just one but a few,' said O'Ward. 'Obviously, we're at a time in the championship where we're going to have to get a little bit more into the conversation of getting our elbows out because that's what I had to do today just to open the doors to having a chance to win this race. 'That's the only way we're even going to catch a whiff of making him sweat a little bit.' Toronto's Devlin DeFrancesco, the only Canadian on the grid, finished 22nd, completing 57 laps. His day was derailed when he had to take a lengthy pit stop to have his car repaired after taking some damage in an accident in the 37th lap. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 20, 2025. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Daily News Egypt
2 days ago
- Health
- Daily News Egypt
Roche helps Egypt expand digital pathology and AI diagnostics
Roche Diagnostics is supporting Egypt's expansion of digital pathology and the integration of artificial intelligence into its public health system to improve the speed and accuracy of diagnoses, particularly in underserved regions, a company official said. The initiatives are being rolled out in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the Universal Health Insurance (UHI) system, according to Liliane Kanaan, North Africa Lead and General Manager for Egypt at Roche Diagnostics. Egypt is one of the first countries in Africa to adopt digital pathology at scale. The technology digitises tissue samples, allowing them to be viewed and analysed remotely. 'By reducing diagnostic turnaround times and enabling telepathology, this innovation will improve both the speed and equity of care delivery,' Kanaan said. 'In underserved communities, digital pathology will facilitate timely first opinions, helping patients receive a diagnosis locally without the need for extensive travel.' For more complex cases, the system allows for rapid second opinions from national or international experts. 'This significantly decreases the travel time and physical burden on both patients and healthcare professionals, while also accelerating diagnosis and treatment planning,' Kanaan added. Roche is also collaborating with national stakeholders to integrate AI into diagnostic workflows by deploying digital pathology scanners and AI-powered tools to modernise hospital pathology laboratories. Kanaan said this helps reduce the burden on healthcare professionals and directly addresses a critical skills gap. 'Notably, this solution directly addresses the severe shortage of pathologists across Africa, where statistics reveal there is approximately one pathologist for every one million people—compared to a ratio of about 1 to 25,000 in countries like the United States and United Kingdom,' she said. The company, which has operated in Egypt for over two decades, has been involved in several national health programmes. Kanaan cited collaborations that have contributed to national health outcomes, including Egypt's Hepatitis C elimination campaign. 'Roche played a key role in deploying national screening efforts, contributing to Egypt's recognition as a WHO Golden Tier country for HCV elimination—an achievement that reflects both the scale and effectiveness of the programme,' she stated. Other past partnerships include supporting the national blood safety strategy with Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) technology at the National Blood Transfusion Center and providing over two million tests during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company continues to support the Presidential Breast Cancer Initiative, launched in 2019, which has screened more than 30 million women to date. Aligning with national priorities like the Presidential Women's Health Initiative ensures innovation addresses the population's most pressing needs, Kanaan said. As part of this, Roche supported the upgrade of more than 26 public pathology laboratories across Egypt. 'These 26 upgraded sites enabled us to deliver over 20,000 full breast cancer diagnostic panels, an essential step in defining effective treatment plans for patients,' she said. Roche is also participating in the national cervical cancer early detection campaign, which has screened more than 20,000 women in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and several non-governmental organisations (NGOs). To meet the region's specific needs, Kanaan said the company localises its solutions by engaging with stakeholders including the Ministry of Health, UHI, military hospitals, academic institutions and NGOs. This involves providing comprehensive solutions that go beyond product sales to include capacity-building programmes, lab software and health consultancy services tailored to local infrastructure and regulations.
Indianapolis Star
14-07-2025
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
Arrow McLaren prepping Linus Lundqvist as potential replacement for Nolan Siegel at Toronto
Arrow McLaren has signed ex-Chip Ganassi Racing driver Linus Lundqvist as a reserve driver for this weekend's Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto street race, the team announced Monday. Practice begins Friday afternoon, but Nolan Siegel might not be cleared to return to the cockpit after suffering a minor concussion in a late-race crash Saturday at Iowa Speedway. Siegel was not cleared for Sunday's race by IndyCar medical officials that morning. Given the short break between the races and belief late Saturday that Siegel would be cleared, Arrow McLaren team principal Tony Kanaan opted not to run Siegel's No. 6 car Sunday. Doing so would've required requesting from IndyCar a special 15-minute shakedown session with a substitute driver on Saturday night, Kanaan said. And given the car repair time in the wake of Siegel's crash — one so hard that the SAFER barrier required repairs — the team principal didn't want the team scrambling with so much uncertainty. 'I missed it': Ex-Team Penske IndyCar leader relishing new chapter with Arrow McLaren Arrow McLaren briefly explored the possibility of Kanaan starting Sunday's race and parking immediately after the green flag, but IndyCar wouldn't approve such a move because Kanaan hadn't taken part in an on-track session during the weekend. An emergency on-track session wasn't available Sunday morning. Lundqvist was at Iowa Speedway on Sunday. The 26-year-old Swedish driver with 20 IndyCar starts will ready himself this week for what could amount to his first time inside an IndyCar cockpit since the 2024 season finale at Nashville Superspeedway. As Kanaan told select media Sunday morning ahead of that day's race, Lundqvist will be in the team's shop throughout this week as Siegel is put through a regimented recovery plan that includes light workouts, time on a racing simulator and evaluation by Ryan Harber, the team's head of human performance, health and wellness. Siegel will be reevaluated by IndyCar's medical team Thursday morning to determine his ability to drive in Toronto. How close was Tony Kanaan to driving?: Nolan Siegel's status, possible backup drivers for Toronto Lundqvist will be with the team all weekend and available should Siegel experience any discomfort in his return or if he isn't cleared. Lundqvist finished 13th in his lone start at Toronto a year ago. He finished 16th in points in his lone full-time IndyCar season in 2024 with five top-10s, a pair of podiums (Barber and World Wide Technology Raceway) and a pole (Road America), but he entered this season without a ride after CGR scaled back from five full-time cars to three as IndyCar launched its charter system that caps teams at three full-time entries guaranteed to start each race (minus the Indy 500).
Indianapolis Star
14-07-2025
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
How close was Tony Kanaan to driving? Nolan Siegel's status, possible backup drivers for Toronto
NEWTON, Iowa — As he's claimed numerous times, Tony Kanaan has no desire to race again in IndyCar. And yet, the 50-year-old Arrow McLaren team principal, who spent parts of 26 seasons racing in the highest levels of American open-wheel racing, slipped into one of Pato O'Ward's spare fire suits, pulled the young Mexican driver's race seat out of the No. 5, placed it in the No. 6 and climbed in. The few minutes of contemplating coming out of retirement came after the team's 20-year-old driver Nolan Siegel was found to have suffered a 'mild concussion' from his severe one-car crash on Lap 248 Saturday afternoon in Race 1 of IndyCar's doubleheader weekend at Iowa Speedway. Siegel initially underwent concussion testing with IndyCar's medical team Saturday in the moments after his crash, and due to the severity indicated by the G forces measured the accelerometer in the drivers' earpieces, Siegel was required to be rechecked early Sunday morning in order to determine whether he'd be cleared to run at 1. At 9:30 a.m., the team learned their first-year full-time driver would not be allowed to race, and not long after, the team determined it would not run the No. 6 Chevy that Siegel had qualified fifth for the race. An hour before Sunday's green flag, Kanaan sat down with select reporters to explain why the team elected not to run the race, why neither Kanaan nor anyone else would start the car and the process the team will undergo in the coming days to have someone, Siegel or otherwise, ready to pilot the No. 6 machine come Friday's event-opening practice on the streets of Toronto. Kanaan said he went to bed expecting Siegel to be cleared, but given the tight timeline around the doubleheader weekend and the lengths the team had to go through just to ready the car for Sunday, and the risk of a new, last-minute driver crashing after starting last (27th) on the grid due to the driver change and the tight turnaround ahead of Toronto, the risks outweighed the rewards of starting a substitute driver. What Kanaan said he didn't immediately think of Saturday evening while solidifying his decision not to have anyone else but Siegel start Sunday's race was the team's Leaders Circle battle and the points impact the No. 6 would suffer by not starting Sunday's race if Siegel was not cleared. Drivers and cars that qualify for a race, but don't start, receive half points for the effort, meaning three points for finishing 27th instead of the minimum of five for pulling off pit lane and taking part in the parade laps. After crashing from seventh place Saturday and dropping to finish 24th , a 20-point points reduction, the No. 6 car sat 21st in entrant points after Race 1, just one spot above the cutline of the top 22 charter-holding entrants that will be slotted in at the end of this season to receive the roughly $1.2 million payout from the series — deemed the Leaders Circle program. At that point, the No. 6 was 19 points clear of 22nd (the No. 45 of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) and 40 points clear of the first car on the outside looking in (the No. 77 of Juncos Hollinger Racing). So Sunday morning, after having been made aware of that and learning that Siegel would not be cleared to race, Kanaan inquired to series race director Kyle Novak about the ability of setting up that emergency on-track session last minute, in order to give Kanaan the opportunity to start and park and earn the No. 6 the extra two points, points Kanaan hopes and believes won't be make-or-break in the team's pursuit to hold onto a Leaders Circle spot, but available points nonetheless. It was in those few minutes as Arrow McLaren waited to hear whether IndyCar would go one step further in making an exception for the unique circumstances that Kanaan entertained the idea of hoping into the cockpit of a racecar again on the grid and took the initial steps of preparing himself for such an endeavor. 'My stuff isn't even here; that's how badly I don't want to (race), but Pato's suit fits me, as well as his seat, so I put his seat in the car and sat in it just in case,' Kanaan said. 'We were pending (IndyCar's) decision and thought, 'Why wait and rush it? Let's just sit there and get started.'' 'A lot of salt to get rid of.' How will Pato O'Ward celebrate Synk 275 win? Gifting Josef Newgarden Kit-Kats But when Novak reaffirmed IndyCar's position that they had needed to know by Saturday night in order to schedule the session and that one was necessary for Kanaan or anyone other than Siegel to start the race, Arrow McLaren was fine living with how the process had taken place. 'Internally, I've said, 'I'm not even thinking about (not making the Leaders Circle) because we're not a team that shouldn't be in the top 22,' Kanaan said. 'Sometimes, IndyCar does something where 'This is the rule, but it's up to our discretion,' but I'll pick my battles. It's fine. I'm not here to create more chaos. 'Would it be cool for you guys to talk about me being on the grid and (Scott) Dixon making fun of me (for coming out of retirement again)? Sure, but really, I truly, truly love what I'm doing now. I always loved driving an Indy car, but I have no desire to go against these guys and get beat, cause I'll get mad.' According to the rule book, drivers who have not participated at any point in on-track activities during the weekend are not allowed to even take the green flag – a rule that came into play a year ago at Iowa Speedway as Jack Harvey was balancing a debilitating back injury between qualifying and Race 1, but Dale Coyne Racing was not allowed to have anyone else start Race 1. Kanaan said he only would've performed a start and park, meaning he'd take the green flag and immediately pull into pit lane and retire the car, as the only option instead of pursuing another driver. 'I don't disagree with the rules, and rules are rules,' Kanaan said. 'I didn't want to think Nolan wouldn't be in the car, and I didn't think I was going to field a car and run the whole race starting from dead last. 'And even if that wasn't me, to do what? And then if you do more damage, you have to turn (the car around for Toronto), so the decision was made to not run the car if Nolan wasn't going to run it. That was pretty much set in my mind.' As Siegel heads back to Indianapolis from a disappointing weekend at Iowa Speedway, his next 72 hours or so will include almost constant round-the-clock work, recovery efforts and evaluation that will ultimately determine whether he's back in the car Friday afternoon in Toronto. It's a moment where Siegel and Arrow McLaren will really lean on its head of human performance, health and wellness Ryan Harber, who for years and years had been Kanaan's physiologist and who the team hired in the offseason away from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. 'You feel that intensity.' Will IndyCar return to Iowa Speedway? Pivotal weekend may decide future '(Siegel) needs to rest. We need to keep an eye on if he's sleeping more. (He'll do) mild workouts, and we'll put him on the simulator,' Kanaan said. 'And then Thursday morning, he's going to get his evaluation to (possibly) be cleared.' Kanaan said the team doesn't yet have a backup driver lined up in case Siegel isn't cleared for Toronto, but he expects to have that settled by Monday and have said backup driver in the shop to begin the preparation process. Essentially, Arrow McLaren will ready both Siegel and his potential stand in this week so both possibilities are covered. Among the names mentioned include recent Indy 500 one-off drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and Harvey, who is in his first year as pit reporter for Fox's IndyCar broadcasts, as well as 2024 IndyCar Rookie of the Year Linus Lundqvist, who raced last year for Chip Ganassi Racing and who achieved one pole and two podiums but whose ride was lost as the team scaled back from five full-time cars to three due to the series' launched charter system. Lundqvist has been in attendance at most IndyCar races this season, including this weekend, both to try and continue conversations and remain visible in hopes of future full-time opportunities coming together, while also remaining a possible stand in for an injured driver. Kanaan also name-dropped Theo Pourchaire, who made his IndyCar debut a year ago with Arrow McLaren at Long Beach in injury fill-in duty for David Malukas, and who then made five starts with the team through mid-June and had been announced as the driver of the No. 6 for each remaining race in 2024 after the Indy 500. Pourchaire was then unceremoniously cut to make room for the team to hire Siegel full-time, though the young Frenchman filled in for an injured Alexander Rossi last year at Toronto. Pourchaire is racing in ELMS in the LMP2 class while also serving as a test and development driver for Peugeot, and his calendar next weekend would appear to be open if called upon. History at Iowa: Myles Rowe becomes first Black driver to win IndyCar or NASCAR race at Iowa Speedway 'I'm going to sleep on it and think about what's the best fit, because it's also going to be a guy who's going to sit there all week and who then might not drive,' Kanaan said. Since the team will have to leave for Toronto on Thursday before knowing the results of Siegel's reevaluation, and because there's always a chance his symptoms flare up after getting back in the car, Kanaan said the team will bring that backup driver with them for the entirety of the Toronto race weekend. 'I don't want to go through what I did last year, staying up all night flying Pourchaire in from Europe,' said Kanaan, referring to the real-life planes, trains and automobiles episode he lived a year ago to secure a replacement for Rossi at Toronto. 'So we'll have a backup in place.'
Indianapolis Star
13-07-2025
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
How close was Tony Kanaan to driving? Nolan Siegel's status, possible backup drivers for Toronto
NEWTON, Iowa — As he's claimed numerous times, Tony Kanaan has no desire to race again in IndyCar. And yet, the 50-year-old Arrow McLaren team principal, who spent parts of 26 seasons racing in the highest levels of American open-wheel racing, slipped into one of Pato O'Ward's spare fire suits, pulled the young Mexican driver's race seat out of the No. 5, placed it in the No. 6 and climbed in. The few minutes of contemplating coming out of retirement came after the team's 20-year-old driver Nolan Siegel was found to have suffered a 'mild concussion' from his severe one-car crash on Lap 248 Saturday afternoon in Race 1 of IndyCar's doubleheader weekend at Iowa Speedway. Siegel initially underwent concussion testing with IndyCar's medical team Saturday in the moments after his crash, and due to the severity indicated by the G forces measured the accelerometer in the drivers' earpieces, Siegel was required to be rechecked early Sunday morning in order to determine whether he'd be cleared to run at 1. At 9:30 a.m., the team learned their first-year full-time driver would not be allowed to race, and not long after, the team determined it would not run the No. 6 Chevy that Siegel had qualified fifth for the race. An hour before Sunday's green flag, Kanaan sat down with select reporters to explain why the team elected not to run the race, why neither Kanaan nor anyone else would start the car and the process the team will undergo in the coming days to have someone, Siegel or otherwise, ready to pilot the No. 6 machine come Friday's event-opening practice on the streets of Toronto. Kanaan said he went to bed expecting Siegel to be cleared, but given the tight timeline around the doubleheader weekend and the lengths the team had to go through just to ready the car for Sunday, and the risk of a new, last-minute driver crashing after starting last (27th) on the grid due to the driver change and the tight turnaround ahead of Toronto, the risks outweighed the rewards of starting a substitute driver. What Kanaan said he didn't immediately think of Saturday evening while solidifying his decision not to have anyone else but Siegel start Sunday's race was the team's Leaders Circle battle and the points impact the No. 6 would suffer by not starting Sunday's race if Siegel was not cleared. Drivers and cars that qualify for a race, but don't start, receive half points for the effort, meaning three points for finishing 27th instead of the minimum of five for pulling off pit lane and taking part in the parade laps. After crashing from seventh place Saturday and dropping to finish 24th , a 20-point points reduction, the No. 6 car sat 21st in entrant points after Race 1, just one spot above the cutline of the top 22 charter-holding entrants that will be slotted in at the end of this season to receive the roughly $1.2 million payout from the series — deemed the Leaders Circle program. At that point, the No. 6 was 19 points clear of 22nd (the No. 45 of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) and 40 points clear of the first car on the outside looking in (the No. 77 of Juncos Hollinger Racing). So Sunday morning, after having been made aware of that and learning that Siegel would not be cleared to race, Kanaan inquired to series race director Kyle Novak about the ability of setting up that emergency on-track session last minute, in order to give Kanaan the opportunity to start and park and earn the No. 6 the extra two points, points Kanaan hopes and believes won't be make-or-break in the team's pursuit to hold onto a Leaders Circle spot, but available points nonetheless. It was in those few minutes as Arrow McLaren waited to hear whether IndyCar would go one step further in making an exception for the unique circumstances that Kanaan entertained the idea of hoping into the cockpit of a racecar again on the grid and took the initial steps of preparing himself for such an endeavor. 'My stuff isn't even here; that's how badly I don't want to (race), but Pato's suit fits me, as well as his seat, so I put his seat in the car and sat in it just in case,' Kanaan said. 'We were pending (IndyCar's) decision and thought, 'Why wait and rush it? Let's just sit there and get started.'' 'A lot of salt to get rid of.' How will Pato O'Ward celebrate Synk 275 win? Gifting Josef Newgarden Kit-Kats But when Novak reaffirmed IndyCar's position that they had needed to know by Saturday night in order to schedule the session and that one was necessary for Kanaan or anyone other than Siegel to start the race, Arrow McLaren was fine living with how the process had taken place. 'Internally, I've said, 'I'm not even thinking about (not making the Leaders Circle) because we're not a team that shouldn't be in the top 22,' Kanaan said. 'Sometimes, IndyCar does something where 'This is the rule, but it's up to our discretion,' but I'll pick my battles. It's fine. I'm not here to create more chaos. 'Would it be cool for you guys to talk about me being on the grid and (Scott) Dixon making fun of me (for coming out of retirement again)? Sure, but really, I truly, truly love what I'm doing now. I always loved driving an Indy car, but I have no desire to go against these guys and get beat, cause I'll get mad.' According to the rule book, drivers who have not participated at any point in on-track activities during the weekend are not allowed to even take the green flag – a rule that came into play a year ago at Iowa Speedway as Jack Harvey was balancing a debilitating back injury between qualifying and Race 1, but Dale Coyne Racing was not allowed to have anyone else start Race 1. Kanaan said he only would've performed a start and park, meaning he'd take the green flag and immediately pull into pit lane and retire the car, as the only option instead of pursuing another driver. 'I don't disagree with the rules, and rules are rules,' Kanaan said. 'I didn't want to think Nolan wouldn't be in the car, and I didn't think I was going to field a car and run the whole race starting from dead last. 'And even if that wasn't me, to do what? And then if you do more damage, you have to turn (the car around for Toronto), so the decision was made to not run the car if Nolan wasn't going to run it. That was pretty much set in my mind.' As Siegel heads back to Indianapolis from a disappointing weekend at Iowa Speedway, his next 72 hours or so will include almost constant round-the-clock work, recovery efforts and evaluation that will ultimately determine whether he's back in the car Friday afternoon in Toronto. It's a moment where Siegel and Arrow McLaren will really lean on its head of human performance, health and wellness Ryan Harber, who for years and years had been Kanaan's physiologist and who the team hired in the offseason away from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. 'You feel that intensity.' Will IndyCar return to Iowa Speedway? Pivotal weekend may decide future '(Siegel) needs to rest. We need to keep an eye on if he's sleeping more. (He'll do) mild workouts, and we'll put him on the simulator,' Kanaan said. 'And then Thursday morning, he's going to get his evaluation to (possibly) be cleared.' Kanaan said the team doesn't yet have a backup driver lined up in case Siegel isn't cleared for Toronto, but he expects to have that settled by Monday and have said backup driver in the shop to begin the preparation process. Essentially, Arrow McLaren will ready both Siegel and his potential stand in this week so both possibilities are covered. Among the names mentioned include recent Indy 500 one-off drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and Harvey, who is in his first year as pit reporter for Fox's IndyCar broadcasts, as well as 2024 IndyCar Rookie of the Year Linus Lundqvist, who raced last year for Chip Ganassi Racing and who achieved one pole and two podiums but whose ride was lost as the team scaled back from five full-time cars to three due to the series' launched charter system. Lundqvist has been in attendance at most IndyCar races this season, including this weekend, both to try and continue conversations and remain visible in hopes of future full-time opportunities coming together, while also remaining a possible stand in for an injured driver. Kanaan also name-dropped Theo Pourchaire, who made his IndyCar debut a year ago with Arrow McLaren at Long Beach in injury fill-in duty for David Malukas, and who then made five starts with the team through mid-June and had been announced as the driver of the No. 6 for each remaining race in 2024 after the Indy 500. Pourchaire was then unceremoniously cut to make room for the team to hire Siegel full-time, though the young Frenchman filled in for an injured Alexander Rossi last year at Toronto. Pourchaire is racing in ELMS in the LMP2 class while also serving as a test and development driver for Peugeot, and his calendar next weekend would appear to be open if called upon. History at Iowa: Myles Rowe becomes first Black driver to win IndyCar or NASCAR race at Iowa Speedway 'I'm going to sleep on it and think about what's the best fit, because it's also going to be a guy who's going to sit there all week and who then might not drive,' Kanaan said. Since the team will have to leave for Toronto on Thursday before knowing the results of Siegel's reevaluation, and because there's always a chance his symptoms flare up after getting back in the car, Kanaan said the team will bring that backup driver with them for the entirety of the Toronto race weekend. 'I don't want to go through what I did last year, staying up all night flying Pourchaire in from Europe,' said Kanaan, referring to the real-life planes, trains and automobiles episode he lived a year ago to secure a replacement for Rossi at Toronto. 'So we'll have a backup in place.'
