AL UNSER JR. (#50 AJ Foyt Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone): (About the qualifying run): “We’re awfully close to the bottom there and come 5, 6, we could be back out here. Like Ed Carpenter said yesterday, I’m not taking off my uniform. We’ll see what happens. A.J. seems to be pretty confident that will hold, but it’s so close. I’ve been in this spot before. We’re going to pay very close attention to what these guys behind me do because I think it’s too close. We put four good laps together. Now we just need to get some downforce on it and see how it reacts to that.
There was definitely no white-knuckling in the qualifying run, and I ain’t gonna have it there, either. We tried a little bit less wing this morning, and it makes the back end a little bit too light for my comfort, and so we put it back in there and we were searching for more speed and I just wasn’t confident enough in everything to put that much on the line for 1 or 2 mile an hour when the best we can do is 12th today. Like my dad said, two, three, four cars in front of you, where you start ain’t gonna make any difference. I got a ton of people in front of me already. We’ll get it in the show, get comfortable with it. ”
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