Carpenter discussed the recent pit lane incident between Danica Patrick and Dan Wheldon.
Q. Have you ever thought about getting into a fight on pit road to generate some pub?
ED CARPENTER: I’m putting my money on Danica in this fight between her and Wheldon. Dan has been pretty good down here in Texas, but I’m going to put my money on Danica.
Q. How about putting on a fight between yourselves to get some pub?
ED CARPENTER: This whole thing is funny. I think it’s good. It’s getting our sport more media. Even better yet, it’s real emotions. It’s not made up. I’m glad there’s no fines handed down. It’s real emotion. This is what needs to happen. Dan pissed her off and she went and told him about it, and that’s the way it should be.
I don’t know that we need to start any fights just to start a fight. But if someone makes you that mad, then you need to go talk to them about it. Obviously, like we were talking about before, something happens like that with those two, it’s going to get on TV. There’s conversations like that between drivers all the time, just most of the time it doesn’t get put on TV. ”
Indy Pro Series driver Ryan Justice was also a guest on the call and talked about racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Liberty Challenge on June 16-17.
Q. The Indy Pro Series is the only series that runs on both the oval and the road course at Indianapolis. What does it mean to you to be able to run not only once at Indy but twice at Indy?
RYAN JUSTICE: I think it’s just fantastic because in road course racing, quite a lot more than just oval racing in general, you can have a bad race, there’s definitely a lot more opportunities to have a bad race. To be able to run a doubleheader I think is just fantastic because if we have a bad day Saturday, definitely going to come back and show what we can do on Sunday.
The flipside of that coin is if we’re having a really good weekend, it’s a really good opportunity to catch up on points and show really well twice in one event
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