Indianapolis 500: End-Of-Day Quotes
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May 08, 2008
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RYAN BRISCOE (No. 6 Team Penske):
“Obviously, we hoped that we would be able to get back on the track today to continue working on the Team Penske car, but unfortunately Mother Nature had other plans. Tomorrow doesn’t look good, either. But we took a good look at the weather forecast earlier this week, so we knew that there was a possibility that we would miss some track time. Fortunately, we got some good work in yesterday and are confident that we’ll be in pretty good shape for the weekend if we’re able to get back out by Friday.”
SARAH FISHER (No. 67 Team ResQ/Gravity Entertainment):
“Obviously the rain today is very disappointing. We needed the track time today to help the start of our team. We haven’t gotten any track time yet this month. This really puts us behind for the month and for qualifying. With tomorrow’s expectations of weather, we just hope that it clears out sooner rather than later.”
HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Team Penske):
“It’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to run today because of the rain. Hopefully, we’ll get a drastic change in the weather and things will clear up for tomorrow. With only one day of track time under our belts, we’re not quite where we want to be with the Team Penske car. Hopefully we’ll get some clear weather before Pole Day, so we can fine tune the qualifying trim. We had a productive day yesterday, but we certainly still have some work to do before qualifying.”
ENRIQUE BERNOLDI (No. 36 Sangari Conquest Racing):
“Actually, having the practice session canceled due to rain today was not too bad for me. I’ll be able to jump in the new car tomorrow when practice resumes. Obviously it would have been nice to get in more practice time today, but it gave the Conquest crew a chance to finish up the cars, and both Jaime and I will be on track tomorrow if the weather cooperates.”
JAIME CAMARA (No. 34 Sangari):
“Usually I’m not happy when it rains because it takes track time away from the teams and it slows down the development we have planned for the month, but it was good for me because I didn’t lose another day on track, and tomorrow we are going to start with everyone else. Because of my crash, we were a step behind, but now we will be caught up. So we’re kind of happy that it rained today because we needed to do a seat fitting and finish the cars.”
DAVEY HAMILTON (No. 22 Hewlett-Packard/KR Vision Racing):
“It’s unfortunate to lose a day on track before Pole Day, but we’ll sit with the engineers for a while, do a few interviews and then I’ll take advantage of the down time to get in a good workout at the Speedway’s gym.”
HIDEKI MUTOH (No. 27 Formula Dream):
“We were going to try a new setup today, so it is disappointing that it rained out. It seems like it will rain again tomorrow, but I hope we will have a nice, clear day on Friday so we can finalize our qualifying setup.”
MARCO ANDRETTI (No. 26 Team Indiana Jones presented by Blockbuster):
“I’m not too disappointed that we couldn’t get on the track today. The Indiana Jones/Blockbuster car was obviously very quick yesterday, so we feel confident. Hopefully we’ll get more time on the track this week before qualifying.” (About going for the pole): “I know I’m going to be going for (the pole). Last year, fortunately, we were pretty comfortably in the top 11 – well, ninth isn’t that comfortable. But even if you’re sitting fifth, there’s going to be so many guys that are going to be capable of going faster. I’m going to be in the mentality of being ready to go again, for sure. Obviously the last hour is when the track is at its best. Ideally we’d do just one run, but you definitely want to get it done the first day.”
TONY KANAAN (No. 11 Team 7-Eleven):
“It’s a very long month, and the Team 7-Eleven car was fast yesterday, so I don’t think we missed anything by not going on track today. Rain is expected again tomorrow, so I hope we can get back on the track again by Saturday, but I feel comfortable with where we are right now.”
