SOPHIA FLOERSCH’s Indy NXT Run Ends After One Race Due to Sponsor Drama

March 27, 2025

by Marshall Pruett // from racer.com

• SOPHIA FLOERSCH’s promising transition from European junior formulas to America’s top IndyCar feeder series has been cut brutally short after just one race. The 24-year-old German driver delivered a solid P12 debut at St. Petersburg with HMD Motorsports before a sponsor miscommunication torpedoed what should have been her breakthrough season in the No. 24 Dallara.
• The “mutual agreement” to part ways reads like corporate speak for a messy situation that nobody wanted to explain in detail. HMD is now scrambling to find a replacement driver for 13 remaining races, while FLOERSCH is left picking up the pieces of what looked like her best shot at the IndyCar pipeline.
• Her exit leaves HAILIE DEEGAN as the lone woman in Indy NXT after the HMD rookie finished P14 in her own St. Petersburg debut. We went from two women breaking barriers in America’s premier open-wheel ladder series to just one in the span of a press release – a reminder of how quickly opportunities can vanish in this unforgiving sport.

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