Arrow McLaren Racing knows that winning the 2023 NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship may soon be out of reach. They sit P6-P10-P12 in points coming into Sunday’s Big Machine Music City Grand Prix (12 p.m. ET, NBC, INDYCAR Radio Network).

With that said, they’re going to utilize the race on the streets of Nashville to make some changes. They know that street circuits haven’t been among their strong suits in 2023. They’ve finished 2-4-19 in St. Pete, 7-17-22 in Long Beach, 3-5-26 in Detroit and 8-10-16 at Toronto.

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Due to that, they’ve decided to use the 5th and final street race of the season to make some changes now too.

“We hope the rest of the field will be following our Arrow McLaren Chevrolets over the Cumberland River and through the streets of Nashville come Sunday,” said Gavin Ward, Racing Director of Arrow McLaren. “Street circuits haven’t been our strongest discipline this season, but we’ve got some fresh ideas and new developments to try as we aim to have some fun and build a better race team week-after-week.

“When it comes to race strategy, Nashville has proved it can reward the gambler. So, teams are really going to need to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em this weekend.”

Alexander Rossi agreed. He came from the back to finish fourth just last year.

“This race has become a flagship event on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES calendar, and we all feel that prestige and excitement,” said the California native. “Every year, the race always seems to be chaotic and a bit of a coin flip, but hopefully we are on the right side of it come Sunday for our final street course race of the year.”

Pato O’Ward has won on a street race before as that came back in 2021 in Belle Isle. He was runner-up this season on the streets of St. Pete but has just one top 10 in the other four races too.

“Nashville has probably been the track where we haven’t quite reached our potential either due to getting hit or having other issues,” said the Mexican star.

O’Ward’s best qualifying effort in Nashville is fifth with a best finish being of 13th in 2021.

Rosenqvist may be their top sleeper to watch. A podium in Detroit and having a fast car in Toronto to go along with being seventh last year makes him a contender to be strong again this weekend.

Still, they’re in the position to be able to do this because they’re not a front runner to take home the title anymore. A risk like this could play out to make them one again heading to a race weekend at Indy to where they had all 3 cars finish in the top 5 this past May including 2 of which on the podium.

Street courses are just the places to where they’re lacking.

On superspeedway’s, they’ve finished 2-22-26 at Texas and 5-24-27 for the ‘500 but that was all due to O’Ward and Rosenqvist each crashing inside of 15 to go while running well inside of the top 5.

On short ovals, they’re typically stronger at but just went 3-10-13 and 4-10-15 at Iowa.

For natural road courses, they went 4-8-9 (Barber), 2-3-5 (Indy), 3-10-20 (Road America) and 8-10-25 (Mid-Ohio).

Improvement on street races is what they’re after.