But he believes he was about even at the end of this season with teammate Colton Herta, who won three races, including the last two of the year. Rossi has a 37-race Ind圜ar losing streak dating to 2019. 27 team is actively hiring because he's already lost three mechanics this offseason and he might lose a fourth. The team has been overhauled ahead of 2022 - Romain Grosjean and rookie Devlin De Francesco replaced Andretti stalwarts Ryan Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe - and Rossi said his No. Not a bad way for Rossi to close the season as he heads into the final year of his current Ind圜ar contract at Andretti Autosport. A week before Baja, he was part of the Wayne Taylor Racing sports car team that lost the IMSA championship in a battle that came down to the final turn of a 10-hour race. Rossi, the 2016 winner of the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, now has a trio of trophies from three of North America's most prestigious races. He opened the year on the winning Rolex 24 at Daytona sports car team and closed it at Baja with a class win in one of the most prestigious off-road races in the world - one Rossi argued is “the most dangerous thing you can do in motorsports.” The Baja win gave Rossi victories to bookend 2021. It was really important to get back on the horse.” “I didn't want to go out, end my time at Baja, on that kind of note. It was a big scare for my navigator and my co-driver and it shook us up a little bit,” Rossi said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “My main motivation was, you know, I crashed in 2019, rolled off a cliff.