Q: You mentioned that halfway through your car was very hard to handle. What happened?
HELIO CASTRONEVES: It was just becoming a very heavy steering wheel, and as soon as I lost the lead to Scott, probably because I was running in the lead most of the time, and I guess that Helio was getting a little upset. But that was the only thing I assume happened.
Q: Question to the two drivers. At the end you have to control fuel at the end of the race, but how much were you controlling your fuel throughout the race before the end?
HELIO CASTRONEVES: Basically I was saving fuel as soon as we started the race, and even after I fight back to about fifth or sixth position I was still saving more than usual because I was getting into best condition towards the end of the race.
SCOTT DIXON: I was in the same situation, really saving fuel from go. I don’t think there was much on the first stint. I think Helio was saving a little more. We don’t know what mileage anybody was getting.
But then second stint onwards we were running in the leanest mode that we had the whole time. But the speed took a toll more on the MPG than how much you could lean it up. When we were running fast at the front, none of us could save enough fuel to get to the end.
Q: Helio, I’m sure you already covered this, but will you again describe for me the moment when you realized you were second and not first, what went through your mind then?
HELIO CASTRONEVES: It was just on the front short. When she already passed me, I looked to the pagoda and I saw that No. 3 was ahead of No. 7, and as soon as we crossed the finish line, my number dropped, so I realized that I was in the lead for a short moment but in second at that time. So that’s the only time that I knew I was second.
Q: Question to Scott, (indiscernible) like you did in Chicago at this race?
SCOTT DIXON: No, that’s the last gamble I wanted to make on that one, but same situation, it turned out to be a fuel race. When you’re leading or you’re in front of the next competitor that’s on the same strategy, you’re the sitting duck. Nine times out of ten you’re going to lose it. But we did our best today, and I think we had a fast car, and we just came up short, same as Chicago.
Q: For Helio, from the last pit stop, did you start saving your fuel from there, or were you full on and were you expecting to have a last yellow flag and then save fuel?
HELIO CASTRONEVES: Well, first it was a great call by Tim Cindric, the president of our team. We made a pit stop, probably I was in fifth place and just missing two positions because of that problem that we were having in the pits, stopping too long.
But from that point we started seeing the fuel not enough as we would. It took a little bit of time for us to realize that this was going to be a fuel race, and we’re probably not going to make it. So when we realized we could, that’s where my lap times started falling quite a lot compared to the leaders, and it was a little too late to get a little bit faster and try to win the race.
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