Insider: Why Arrow McLaren surprisingly chose Christian Lundgaard over Alexander Rossi

If you turn the calendar back one month, neither side saw this coming. Alexander Rossi was coming back to Arrow McLaren for 2025 – and quite possibly longer – after running up-front nearly all day during the Indianapolis 500 and securing his sixth top-5 in nine starts in the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

“We’re there,” one source said at the time.