Rising up in Joliet, Illinois, automobile tradition was all the time part of Jordan Missig’s life.
Missig’s grandfather was a mechanic on a Formulation 5000 group. His father and grandfather have been each veterans of the auto physique business.
At 4 years previous, the racing bug bit Missig, sending him on a comparatively unorthodox however rewarding journey that has taken him to the brilliant lights of the Indy NXT Collection.
“Across the ages of 4 and 5 is once I grew to become an addict of racing,” Missig advised Yardbarker. “I did attempt to get a go-kart on the age of 5, however sadly, on account of my dad being married to the enterprise on the time, we couldn’t afford the journey time and the fee for me to go racing.”
In 2016, Missig’s father offered his enterprise, giving a then-18-year-old Missig the chance he’d been dreaming of for years.
“He purchased me a go-kart. That was my first alternative to go race,” Missig stated. “As soon as we received that chance, my profession took off from there.”
In 2024, solely eight years after his racing profession formally began, Missig was standing on the grid on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for his Indy NXT debut with Abel Motorsports. Missig made 5 begins with Abel Motorsports in 2024, bringing dwelling a greatest end of ninth at Gateway.
This season, Missig will make the soar to full-time Indy NXT competitors with Abel Motorsports.
“I didn’t begin the dialog with (Abel Motorsports group supervisor) John Brunner till the tip of the 2023 USF Professional season. I used to be on the lookout for a chance to make the following soar. I fashioned that relationship in the direction of the tip of 2023 and used 2024 as a option to keep involved with John. Each race weekend that I used to be on the monitor with them, I’d go bug them and speak to them. We did that first race at Indianapolis, and so they may inform that (I) was good. It was as much as us to place the finances collectively, which happily we have been capable of finding a option to put that collectively and signal the deal.”
