I think it’s just going to add a lot more excitement for the fact and track activity and things going on, which will be a big plus. And I’m excited. We’ve been wanting to get it in for the last two years, and the weather has stopped us each time. I’ve been excited about it ever since it was announced and really looking forward to seeing how it turns out this year.
HELIO CASTRONEVES: Pretty much what Sam said, we experienced it once in 2005, obviously we didn’t have the new rules before, but the way the competition is this year seems to be unbelievably tight, and this is definitely going to create an excitement for especially the top 11. You’re probably talking about one-, maybe, two-mile difference, and when you see something like that, every team thinks they have a chance to bump someone else or improve their position. We feel that we have continued working and feel that it’s going to be an interesting day. I’m sure not only us, but a lot of guys are going to show a little bit their hands, and, for sure, you’re going to have a little bit of what it might be for tomorrow’s time.
Q: Do either one of you three have an A. J. Foyt story you want to share?
MEARS: There’s just a lot of stories about A. J. and I think you know … the story I have about A. J. is that you know, as I came here as a car owner in the early days and would see his cars fast every day, and the orange car sitting up front, I wanted to be sure we could try to emulate him or try to beat him, and he was someone rapid out there we always looked at. You could see he’s not going to give up, and I think that he will go down as a real legend in the sport.
CINDRIC: I’m not going to tell any because he’s still here.
Q: Tim, in the last race, we saw what happened in the pits with Andretti Green, how do you avoid incidents like that on your team, and is it in the heat of battle that things can kind of foul-up?
CINDRIC: Yeah, racing, anything can happen. It’s easy to look at it as an armchair quarterback and say they should have done this, should have done that. But everybody is out there competing at that point in time. That’s why you have to make sure as a team, we’re looking at the bigger picture. If we have one in contention and one that’s not in contention, it’s our job to win the race. Whether it’s the car I’m running or the car Roger is running, at the end of the day, the team wins. And you know, that’s what we have to focus on on Race Day and, you know, anything can happen out there.
Everybody’s caught up in their moments, and we try and communicate with each other during the race, you know, to do the best we can on situations like that.
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