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IndyCar: Alexander Rossi on the hunt for package thief

By Asher Fair

FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Alexander Rossi, driver of the #27 NAPA Auto Parts Honda, sits in his car during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 08: Alexander Rossi, driver of the #27 NAPA Auto Parts Honda, sits in his car during practice for the Verizon IndyCar Series DXC Technology 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /
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Full-time IndyCar driver and 2016 Indianapolis 500 champion Alexander Rossi is on the hunt for a package thief who he caught on camera.

IndyCar driver Alexander Rossi is on the hunt for a package thief who stole a package off of his front porch earlier this week.

Fortunately for the 27-year-old Nevada City, California native, cameras outside of his home in Indianapolis, Indiana captured a white man in a yellow t-shirt wearing a red backpack performing the theft. Rossi shared the video on his Twitter account.

Here is what Rossi tweeted.

Andretti Autosport, the team for which Rossi drives the #27 Honda on a full-time basis in IndyCar, responded by stating that “some people just aren’t very smart”.

https://twitter.com/FollowAndretti/status/1122886205375434752

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Rossi’s focus, meanwhile, is set to shift to the month of May and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, first for the IndyCar Grand Prix at the track’s 13-turn, 2.439-mile (3.925-kilometer) natural terrain road course and then more notably for the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 at the track’s four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) oval.

Rossi is set to enter the month of May in second place in the IndyCar championship standings. He currently trails points leader Josef Newgarden of Team Penske by 28 points (166 to 138) after dominating the season’s most recent race on the streets of Long Beach, California. His average finishing position through the season’s first four races is an impressive 5.00, and he has not finished a race in lower than ninth place.

In three career starts in the IndyCar Grand Prix, Rossi has recorded finishes of 10th, eighth and fifth place for an average finishing position of 7.67. In three career starts in the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing”, he has recorded one victory, a seventh place finish and a fourth place finish for an average finishing position of 4.00, the best average finishing position among the entrants for this year’s running of the race by a sizable margin.

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If you know or find anything out about Alexander Rossi’s package thief, please call 317-262-TIPS (8477).