I don’t care how you get it as long as you get it and I think we’re starting to build it.” All you need sometimes is a bit of momentum. It’s kind of fair for where I feel our speed has been for the weekend. I’ll have to dissect that one because I feel like we had two front wing changes and a bunch of pit stops, a bunch of yellows and a red flag and to come out in the top-10 it was a pretty good race in the end. JACK HARVEY, 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It was a pretty eventful race. The Shield Cleansers livery features a design inspired by the band O.A.R., who is in concert Saturday night at Ascend Amphitheatre and has a partnership with team partner Sugarlands Distilling … Arrived to Nashville fresh off a career best second place finish at the Gallagher GP and IMS… Will be his first race here and 15 th in the INDYCAR SERIES… He is the highest ranked rookie in 15th place in the point standings with 272. A red flag came out for nearly 12 minutes when Grosjean crashed and on the restart on Lap 78/80, Lundgaard dropped from third to eighth place… Finished P1 for the first time in a practice session in Practice 1 on Friday and earned his best INDYCAR starting position of third. He held second through one restart but dropped to third place on Lap 76/80 when McLaughlin passed him. He ran his best lap of the race on Lap 60-80 from third place and took over second when Newgarden had to pit for fuel on Lap 66. When Rahal and Veekay brought out the caution from Laps 52-55, many jumped in the pits and Lundgaard cycled into third place. He made his first stop from second place on Lap 23 under caution and ran in the top-10 for the next stint as there were some drivers on a different pit stop strategy. FAST FACTS: Started third and was passed by Palou on the start to run fourth.The race might not look like it but we were down in 10 th before that caution anyways so we were lucky and unlucky.” We sort of backed up our Indy result throughout the whole weekend and in qualifying. It’s so difficult to have a balance and know where you’re at, you’re just driving around on ice cubes and we lost a lot of position at the end because of that and our braking balance. We are struggling to get the tires working under cautions and honestly, it’s like driving on ice. There was a yellow, which we caught, which was very, very lucky, and we moved up the whole field into third and sort of regained our race. I couldn’t brake anywhere it was quite tough. I had to do a full stint on a big flat spot that was basically undriveable. I had a big lock up on the restart on the primary tires. It was very, very difficult to find out why. We struggled all weekend with braking stability, and balance. 30 Shield Cleansers Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “This was probably the most ups and downs we’ve had in one race for sure. Pete street course, Kansas oval 2017 – Detroit Race 1 street) and his highest series season-ending standing is fourth place in 2015… He is in 13th place in series point standings with a total of 281.ĬHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. Pete street course 2015 – Fontana Super Speedway, Mid-Ohio road course 2016 – Texas Super Speedway 2017 Detroit Race 1, Detroit Race 2) and THREE poles (2009 – St. He was checked and release by the media team… In the inaugural race here last year, Rahal drove to a fifth place finish after qualifying 13th… Has SIX Ind圜ar Series wins (2008 – St. Once he was back on track, the car was bottoming and he hit the wall on the bridge. The crew took the car behind the pits and repaired the front and rear suspension on the right side due to the high number of incidents and potential to gain valuable points. The team replaced the wing and he returned to the track but hit the wall at the end of pit out. He damaged his front wing and was dragging it under the front of this car until he made it back to the pits. After his first stop on Lap 23/80 during a FCC for Castroneves, who spun, he was running 10 th when the field checked up ahead of him and Pato ran into Power and Rahal ran into O’Ward. FAST FACTS: Rahal started ninth and ran 10 th until the pit cycle started.It’s just disappointing for the United Rentals team.” The yellow before that hurt our strategy quite a lot but we were able to have a good restart. For us it broke the rear tow-link amongst other things so I’m disappointed. At that part of the track, to be frank, I’m so far up under the gearbox anyway. It seemed like somebody ahead had a problem but obviously I hit Pato exceptionally hard. The most frustrating part for me is trying to understand why the check-up happened. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I couldn’t see anything.
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