Mick Schumacher’s maiden IndyCar season took a positive turn on Monday as he bagged his first top 10 finish of the year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, held on Nashville Superspeedway’s 1.33-mile concrete oval, the German finally scored a breakthrough result in a season that has been filled with challenges.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Schumacher brought his No. 47 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda home in eighth place, comfortably his best result of a 2026 campaign that had yielded a best finish of just 16th before Monday’s outing.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The race, which was delayed by one day due to adverse weather, was won by Alex Palou, who crossed the line ahead of Josef Newgarden and David Malukas.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t have done it without the team. The pit stops have been amazing all day,” Schumacher said.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We knew we had a good car after FP2 and we just put it to work. I think we can be really proud of everything we’ve done this weekend. Hopefully many more of those moments come.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, Schumacher felt there was even more left on the table, adding: “In terms of pace, we were definitely supposed to be higher.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the car was so good that I think we could have really been higher up than that. It was just difficult to pass and I felt a little loose at times.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe open communication that we had all race with the team has been so good. Jeff [Troyer, spotter] and Ryan [Briscoe] on the stand coaching me throughout the whole race was good.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is how the weekend is supposed to go and you see it. When we have a clean weekend, this is the sort of finish, a top 10 position, that we can expect consistently, if not higher.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m just very proud of the team. We’ve just got to build on that momentum, and do it until the end of the year.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mick Schumacher’s maiden IndyCar season took a positive turn on Monday as he bagged his first top 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-538219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}