Indy Pro Series Quotebook:
Logan Gomez (No. 23 Sam Schmidt Motorsports, fourth-fastest): “The Sam Schmidt Motorsports team gave me a great car to learn on. There’s no better team I could’ve jumped on to. They couldn’t have made it easier for me to learn how to drive on an oval, especially one like this. It takes a lot of confidence to go around here flat out, for me. It was a big step. The team really made it easy, comfortable car. From there, we focused on getting it fast. Having a great teammate like Alex (Lloyd) to go out there and go flat out in five laps really set the benchmark too. Hopefully, rookies like myself get to get the right habits going, learn how to drive in a pack, and hopefully we’ll have some good, clean racing this year. “
Alex Lloyd (No. 7 Sam Schmidt Motorsports, second fastest): “We had a good day. We had a few troubles just before lunch and right after lunch, which cost us a couple of hours of running, so we didn’t get to do any running in a pack at the end. We did a 28.8 on our own, not in qualifying spec really either, so we were very happy with our pace. I think were comfortably quickest out there on our own. Unfortunately, I thought on my last lap I was going to get a really good draft and try and come away with P1, but it didn’t happen. The cars in front got a bit tangled up, and I had to back off a bit. But all in all we were really happy. It’s amazing how good the car is. It’s really a very well-balanced car. We’re looking forward to the race. “
Bobby Wilson (No. 1 Brian Stewart Racing, fastest driver during test): “Hats off to the team today. They did a great job. The car was awesome. I’d like to thank my sponsor, Ocala Gran Prix, for allowing me this opportunity to run with Brian Stewart Racing this year. My outlook is very positive and optimistic. We showed some speed straight away in the session and then kept getting faster. All in all it’s a good day. We were trying some different setups. It’s pretty windy out there, and one end of the track handles a little different than the other. We were just kind of jacking around with various setups. We came across a pretty good compromise, and that’s how we got our time. ”
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