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WILL THE CASTRONEVES-PAGENAUD COMBO TAKE MSR TO THE FRONT?
“Jack Harvey’s a very good driver, but why was he so excited to leave Shank and go to Rahal’s team?” remarked one entirely objective paddock luminary to Autosport last week. “I think he needed to be a bit more patient, give it another year – because I reckon he’s quit Meyer Shank at exactly the wrong time, and he’s going to be kicking himself…”
This comment came just a couple of days after new recruit Simon Pagenaud and former part-time – now full-time – MSR driver Helio Castroneves finished 1-2 in a 14-car test at Sebring, and just a couple of weeks after the pair helped MSR win the Daytona 24 Hours. Yes, our observer may be right about MSR hitting its stride in 2022.
Pagenaud (who turns 38 in May) and Castroneves (who’ll be 47 the same month) wouldn’t have
