The 18-year-old Californian is coming off a 2023 marketing campaign that featured two wins and 5 podiums and 67 laps led by way of 14 rounds en path to ending third within the total championship and claiming prime rookie honors.
“I’m anxious and excited to get again to work with HMD Motorsports,” Siegel mentioned. “My rookie 12 months was a great one, and we got down to do what we wished to do however now I’m absolutely centered on the championship. I’ll have the identical engineer and identical crew this season offering consistency that may hopefully assist in a championship run.”
After six rounds final season, Siegel held the general factors lead. Nevertheless, a sequence of robust finishes, beginning with a sixteenth at Mid-Ohio Sports activities Automotive Course, noticed him relegated down the operating order.
Siegel pointed to moments like these as classes to be taught from and apply towards attempting to win subsequent 12 months’s title and transfer as much as the IndyCar Sequence.
“There have been just a few shortfalls this previous season, and I’ve realized from these errors and points,” Siegel mentioned. “I’m laser centered on the longer term, and we’ll reset all of the season objectives previous to the primary inexperienced flag of the 2024 season. Now it’s time to concentrate on testing.”
Siegel returns to a workforce in HMD that has claimed back-to-back championships in Indy NXT with the likes of Linus Lundqvist and Christian Rasmussen.
Mike Maurini, common supervisor of HMD Motorsports, noticed firsthand Siegel’s progress, which has additionally been aided by a various background that features competing in IMSA’s endurance rounds this season – incomes an LMP2 class victory within the Six Hours at The Glen with CrowdStrike.
“Nolan is a good expertise and has a shiny future in motorsports,” mentioned Maurini. “He has confirmed this by not solely profitable in Indy NXT however topping the rostrum in numerous racing platforms world wide. We stay up for watching his continued progress and serving to him attain his objectives of the NTT IndyCar Sequence.”
