Hedge finishes fourth in rookie Indy NXT campaign
Callum Hedge has finished fourth overall in his rookie season in the Indy NXT Series for HMD Motorsport.
Despite missing most of pre-season testing due to an untimely bout of appendicitis, the 2023 Formula Regional Americas champion secured five top-five finishes, including one on his oval debut at Iowa, and a further three top tens over the season. He also featured on the podium on the streets of Detroit, where he had a third-place finish.
He secured his championship position of fourth, as the second-top rookie, in the final round at Nashville Superspeedway over the weekend despite a difficult race in which he finished 10 laps off the pace after taking damage on Lap 11.
With qualifying for the race abandoned due to rain, he had lined up fifth, based on his position in the championship entering the event.
Contact with Myles Rowe on Lap 11 damaged the #17, and HMD Motorsport were forced to box the car for repairs. Hedge eventually returned to the track to finish the race, albeit well off the pace.
Andretti Global’s Louis Foster, who secured the title last round at Milwaukee, drove to his eighth victory of 2024, ahead of rookie Yuven Sundaramoorthy, to finish with a dominant 122-point advantage over runner-up Jacob Abel.
Brazilian rookie Caio Collet completed the championship top three, 104 points ahead of Hedge, who finished one point to the good of Mexico’s Salvador de Alba.
Hedge has indicated a return to the Indy NXT Championship is on the cards for 2025 as he looks to go three better than he did this season.
