AJ Foyt Racing’s David Malukas in the No.4 Chevrolet had a wonderful qualifying for Sunday’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach as he will roll off from tenth place on the grid. Malukas made it into the Firestone Fast 12 and speaking after setting a time of 01:07.9818s and speaking following the action he said:
“Overall, really, really happy with how things ended up turning out. We kind of had our heads twisted on setup changes from Practice 1 and Practice 2, but going into qualifying, we didn’t hit it perfect. There was a bit of understeer in the car, but we did an incredible job getting the car where it needed to be. Scraped through in Q1 and going into that Fast 12, we had a very fast car for the short four corners I did. Unfortunately, luck is always a big play into it, and we had a really unlucky red. They didn’t give us the extra lap in the end. We couldn’t really show what we had, so I ended up with a P10 in the end. We can work from there. It feels very confident that we finished P10, but we know we have a fast car, and it could’ve been a lot better. There’s always the other scenario where you got lucky and you’re in P10 and you’re not fast. Heads are forward and we know that results are not in qualifying. Results are in the race, so we’ll get it done.”
Santino Ferrucci in the No.14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet had a difficult qualifying and starts the race from 27th place and speaking following the action he said:
“We struggled all the way through the weekend. Made some pretty big changes in the car going into qualifying. It felt really good. Honestly, I think we made some solid strides. The car was very capable of advancing. I just had a slight bauble in (turn) eight, and I clipped the wall the wrong way. It unfortunately ended our session.”
How confident are you for tomorrow?
“I feel really good about being able to move forward. I think the car is in a really good spot at the moment. We’re not really going to change anything going into tomorrow’s warm up, and we’re going to do what we got to do to advance. Hopefully, it’s entertaining.”