HMD Motorsports
Base | Brownsburg, Indiana[1] |
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Team principal(s) | Henry Malukas[2][3] |
Current series | Indy NXT[4][5] |
Former series | Formula Regional Americas Championship[6] IndyCar Series[1][7] |
HMD Motorsports is an American racing team in the Indy NXT series.[4][5] The team is owned by Henry Malukas.[2][3]
Indy Lights (2019–present)
[edit]2019
[edit]HMD Motorsports (BN Racing) entered the 2019 Indy Lights series.[8] David Malukas ran for the team in 2019 with a limited budget.[9] Toby Sowery won the Sunday race at Portland for HMD Motorsports/Team Pelfrey.[10][11] During the season, the BN Racing Indy Lights team was taken over by HMD Motorsports.[12][non-primary source needed] HMD was to run the 2020 Indy Lights series, but the season was cancelled due to COVID-19.[6][13]
2021
[edit]HMD Motorsports, together with Global Racing Group fielded four cars to start the 2021 Indy Lights series season.[2][3][14] Drivers included Benjamin Pedersen, Linus Lundqvist, Nikita Lastochkin, and David Malukas. Exclusive Autosport, due to delaying its planned Indy Lights entry, sold their two cars to HMD/GRG.[15] Linus Lundqvist won Race 1 from pole at the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Alabama with teammate David Malukas winning Race 2 from pole.[16][17] Malukas won Race 2 from pole at the Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.[18] Lundqvist won the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Indianapolis Race 1 from pole with teammate Malukas winning Race 2 from pole.[19][20] Malukas won Race 2 at Road America, both races at Gateway, and Portland Race 1.[21][22][23] Lundqvist would use another car at Gateway due to a crash before the races.[22] Manuel Sulaimán joined the team at Portland, replacing Lastochkin.[24] Lundqvist won the season finale at Mid-Ohio.[25]
2022
[edit]HMD partnered with Dale Coyne Racing for the 2022 Indy Lights series season. Drivers included Christian Bogle, Danial Frost, Linus Lundqvist, and Manuel Sulaimán.[26][27] The teams partnership continued with Global Racing Group, fielding driver Benjamin Pedersen.[26] Lundqvist won several races throughout the season, while teammate Frost won at the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Indianapolis Race 1.[28][29] Sulaimán would leave the team and be replaced by Antonio Serravalle starting at Indianapolis.[30] Kyffin Simpson would join the team starting at Iowa, moving over from TJ Speed.[31] Serravalle would leave and be replaced by James Roe starting at Nashville, who also moved over from TJ Speed.[32] Pedersen would win at Portland.[33] Nolan Siegel joined the team for the season finale at Laguna Seca [34] Lundqvist would win the series championship at Race 1 of Laguna Seca.[35]
2023
[edit]HMD Motorsports fielded an entry for Force Indy driver Ernie Francis Jr..[36] HMD also took over the teams equipment and personal.[37] The team started 2023 with nine cars in the Indy NXT field.[38] Christian Rasmussen won the championship racing for HMD.[39] Rasmussen almost ran out of funding three times during the season.[40]
2024
[edit]Myles Rowe joined Force Indy/HMD for 2024.[36][41] HMD started 2024 with ten cars in the Indy NXT field.[42] Nolan Siegel did not race at Road America due to being needed by IndyCar Series team Juncos Hollinger Racing as a replacement driver, with Kiko Porto taking his place for the weekend.[43] Siegel then left the team to compete in the 2024 IndyCar Series for Arrow McLaren.[44] Caio Collet won in his rookie season at Mid-Ohio, and later would be series rookie of the year.[45][46] Christian Brooks joined the team starting at Laguna Seca.[43] Nolan Allaer ended his season in July to focus on 2025.[47]
2025
[edit]HMD formed a partnership with USF Pro 2000 based team TJ Speed.[48] Hailie Deegan joined HMD for 2025.[49]
IndyCar (2022–2023)
[edit]HMD Motorsports partnered with Dale Coyne Racing to run David Malukas in the 2022 IndyCar Series and 2023 IndyCar Series.[50][51][52] The partnership would end after 2023.[1][7]
Formula Regional Americas Championship (2020)
[edit]2020
[edit]HMD Motorsports entered the 2020 Formula Regional Americas Championship series with drivers David Malukas and Santiago Urrutia after the cancellation of the 2020 Indy Lights series.[6] Logan Cusson joined the team starting at Barber Motorsports Park.[53] Kyffin Simpson joined the team starting at Sebring International Raceway.[54] David Malukas would win the Saturday race at Sebring.[55] Marco Kacic joined the team for Circuit of the Americas.[56]
Current series results
[edit]Indy Lights / Indy NXT
[edit]Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2019 | Dallara IL-15 | Toby Sowery | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 367 | 3rd | 3rd |
David Malukas | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 301 | 6th | |||
2021 | Dallara IL-15 | David Malukas | 20 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 524 | 2nd | 1st |
Linus Lundqvist | 20 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 449 | 3rd | |||
Benjamin Pedersen | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 356 | 4th | |||
Nikita Lastochkin | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 123 | 13th | |||
Manuel Sulaimán | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 15th | |||
2022 | Dallara IL-15 | Linus Lundqvist | 14 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 575 | 1st | 2nd |
Danial Frost | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 382 | 7th | |||
Kyffin Simpson† | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 312 | 9th | |||
Christian Bogle | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 298 | 11th | |||
James Roe Jr.† | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 219 | 12th | |||
Antonio Serravalle† | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 204 | 13th | |||
Manuel Sulaimán | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 16th | |||
Nolan Siegel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 17th | |||
Benjamin Pedersen | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 444 | 5th | 3rd | ||
2023 | Dallara IL-15 | Christian Rasmussen | 14 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 539 | 1st | 1st |
Nolan Siegel | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 415 | 3rd | |||
Danial Frost | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 361 | 6th | |||
Reece Gold† | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 334 | 8th | |||
Christian Bogle | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 266 | 11th | |||
Rasmus Lindh† | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 210 | 14th | |||
Josh Green | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 20th | |||
Kyffin Simpson | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 283 | 10th | 5th | ||
Josh Pierson | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173 | 15th | |||
Toby Sowery | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 65 | 23rd | |||
Ernie Francis Jr. | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 300 | 9th | 6th | ||
2024 | Dallara IL-15 | Caio Collet | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 436 | 3rd | 2nd |
Callum Hedge | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 332 | 4th | |||
Reece Gold | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 289 | 10th | |||
Christian Bogle | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 284 | 12th | |||
Jonathan Browne | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 279 | 13th | |||
Josh Pierson | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 264 | 14th | |||
Christian Brooks | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 208 | 16th | |||
Nolan Siegel | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 177 | 17th | |||
Nolan Allaer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158 | 19th | |||
Niels Koolen | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 20th | |||
Kiko Porto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 26th | |||
Jagger Jones | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 27th | |||
Myles Rowe | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 286 | 11th | 5th |
† Shared results with other teams.
Former series results
[edit]Formula Regional Americas Championship
[edit]Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2020 | Ligier JS F3 | David Malukas | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 283 | 2nd | 2nd |
Logan Cusson† | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 8th | |||
Kyffin Simpson | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 13th | |||
Santiago Urrutia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15th | |||
Marco Kacic | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19th |
† Shared results with other teams.
IndyCar Series
[edit]Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. |
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2022 | Dallara DW12 | David Malukas | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 305 | 16th |
2023 | Dallara DW12 | David Malukas | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 265 | 17th |
Timeline
[edit]Current series | |
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Indy NXT | 2019–present |
Former series | |
Formula Regional Americas Championship | 2020 |
IndyCar Series | 2022–2023 |
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