Arrow McLaren had a fantastic qualifying for the Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix as Pato O’Ward in the No.5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet scored his first P1 Award since 2022.
I knew if we could get the car to my liking, I would get it done. “I’ve got to thank the guys. We turned it around. We dialed it in after Q1 (first qualifying segment) because I was somewhat happy with it but not perfect. Just made a little bit of an adjustment and as soon as we went out in Q2, I said, ‘I’ve got this.
Christian Lundgaard in the No.7 VELO Chevrolet was delighted starting P2.
Throughout qualifying, I think I”m pretty happy. Obviously bummed to get second over first. I think we had a car to be on pole. I think we proved that as a team. Front row lockout, we’re just apparently copy and paste what the F1 team is doing.”
Nolan Siegel in the No.6 NTT DATA Chevrolet starts the race from 16th place and speaking following the action he said:
Honestly, I feel like all weekend the execution has been alright on all of our laps and all of our runs. Just been lacking a bit, so I don’t really know. I felt like it was a pretty solid run and a solid lap, and it felt good enough that if you told me we were up at the top, I would believe you. So, a little confused, but I think our race pace will be better. We could be worse, we certainly hoped we’d be better but this is where we’re at.”