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“We were a little loose there on Lap 2 in Turns 1 and 2, and had understeer in Turns 3 and 4, and had to lift on Lap 1 a little bit. We just missed the balance a touch – it wasn’t much, but it doesn’t take much around here. We’ll focus on practice tonight […]

“The session went alright. We need to make the DHL car a little bit better in race trim. I think we need to make some changes over night to get us in the window or tomorrow. Without qualifying today, we’re starting from sixth and it’s a long race so a lot can happen.” Weather played […]

“After [Practice 1] we knew we needed some speed, so we threw some setup changes at it. I think the car was pretty decent. We advanced on to the top 12 and then got too aggressive with the front of the car and missed the [Firestone] Fast Six. We just came up a bit shy […]

“We were a bit handcuffed during our run – meaning I couldn’t really shift the balance one way or the other with the tools. I was too loose mid-corner, and then big understeer really late. The rear of the car would straighten up, then after that the front would really take off coming up the […]

“We made it out of Round 1 pretty cleanly and then in Round 2, I just got loose into Turn 5. That’s all it takes – one corner, one lap. We just lost it by two-tenths. That’s the gap to miss it, unfortunately, but hopefully we’ll go get them tomorrow and move the DHL car […]

“We had a good lap going there to start. [Sebastien] Bourdais came out in front of us, so I backed up and then at the end the car got really loose out of Turn 3. That cost us about three and a half tenths and that is the difference of making it [to Round 2]. […]

“Overall, the run was pretty good, I think. We put a good 28 DHL Honda out there today. We have a lot more speed than we had at Indy, and I’m definitely happy about that. We need to just focus on the race from here – hopefully have a good race car tomorrow night, make […]

“Certainly disappointed with starting 22nd. I think if we had a chance at the end of the day (to make another attempt), I think we would have been somewhere around 14th or 15th. But, it is what it is. We can make up the spots in the race, it’s a long race. We will concentrate […]