Well if we’re 13th, it must be Kentucky. At least that’s the way it seems. But there were some major differences for our ABC Supply team this year.
We didn’t finish 13th in the Meijer Indy 300 like we have the last two years at Kentucky Speedway. We probably would have been happier if we had, instead of the 19th-place finish we did get. With 267 points, Darren Manning is tied for 13th with Will Power in the IndyCar Series standings after this race (actually Darren is listed as 14th because the tiebreaker is the highest finish, and Power won at Long Beach while our highest finish is second).
We were 13th after Kentucky last year but the big difference is that there were only 18 full-time cars last year; this year there are 26. As the series had grown this year, so has our competitiveness — and our expectations.
We were looking at our fifth straight top-10 but that ended with our 19th-place finish in this race. Everyone was disappointed about that and the fact that we slipped back to 13th in the points.
This coming weekend is an off weekend for the IndyCar Series but my crew will be making sure that the ABC Supply car is ready for the final three-race swing through Infineon, Detroit and Chicagoland. With the first two of those races being on road/street courses, we believe Darren can make up some of the points he lost at Kentucky this weekend.
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