Pato O’Ward was announced to an extension last Friday with McLaren, but its plans for a third seat have not been revealed. McLaren took over majority ownership of the Ind圜ar team this season and has plans to expand to three cars and build a state-of-the-art facility in Indiana that mimics its Formula One factory in England. Rossi and Taylor Kiel, president of McLaren’s Ind圜ar team, are scheduled to discuss the signing Friday at the Detroit Grand Prix. It’s time for me to race for another one of motorsport’s biggest names: McLaren.” I see the commitment this team has to each other and to me, and I’m looking forward to getting started. “I look forward to contributing to the development of Arrow McLaren SP and helping them reach the top. “The time has come for a new challenge, with a team that is growing in the sport,” Rossi said in a statement. The Californian is in the midst of a nearly three-year winless streak. Rossi won the Indy 500 as a rookie in 2016, the first of seven victories with Andretti. It contradicted Andretti’s February admission that he’d only hold Rossi to that clause “unless he finds something else.” Rossi, it turned out, indeed had decided to leave Andretti even before the start of the Ind圜ar season, and the Thursday confirmation was made possible when Andretti announced a day earlier that Kyle Kirkwood would drive Rossi’s No. Rossi’s departure had been widely speculated since April, though both the American driver and Michael Andretti insisted they had an exclusive negotiating window in which Rossi could not even speak to any other teams. Alexander Rossi confirmed Thursday he’s signed a multiyear deal to drive for Arrow McLaren SP beginning next season after a seven-year run with Andretti Autosport.
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