Ed Carpenter (No. 20 Vision Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone): “The race car, two days ago, we got started with it, and yesterday we just went out and tested, some miscellaneous things and didn’t run much in traffic. Today we got back into traffic and did some stuff out there, and it felt really good. We went out in the middle of the day, kind of race time, and we didn’t do too many laps. We’re trying to save some tires for maybe some hotter weather. But it feels really good. I’m really happy with where we’re at. I think we’ve arrived at a pretty good point where we feel that we need to be downforce-wise, and it’s just matching it with conditions and verifying it with what we have the next couple of days in practice. ”
About differences in team over the past year:
“Well, it definitely keeps getting bigger. Every time we keep coming to Indy with more cars, but every challenge that we give the core group of guys we have, they do an excellent job and step up and continue to amaze me. They put in a lot of hard work this season and every month of May getting ready for this. It’s hard to really put your finger on one particular thing. I think it’s just all the hard work that they keep putting in to it, and there’s obviously more sponsors on our cars than we’re used to in the past and that’s just a huge help and relief to our whole organization.
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