Meyer Shank Racing’s Helio Castroneves in the No.06 Honda scored his best qualifying performance of the season to date as he will start the Gallagher Grand Prix of Indianapolis at IMS from 12th place. Speaking following the action he commented saying:
“I think I overcooked the tires on my first flying lap and then when I went out on the second lap, the rears weren’t as planted as I needed them to be. I don’t know that we had enough for pole, but we may have been able to get into the Fast Six with the car we had today. Overall I feel like we have a very strong chance in the race tomorrow. Unfortunately we have the six place grid penalty for the engine change, but we will work our way back up in the race tomorrow.”
Linus Lindqvist in the No.60 AutoNation Sirius XM Honda starts the race from 14th place and speaking following the action he commented saying:
“Very close qualifying session here at Indy. First of all, I am very happy to be back for my second-ever INDYCAR weekend. There are still plenty of new things for me to learn. The package that we had roll off the trucks was competitive and I think we had it in ourselves to move on to the Fast 12 and maybe even the Fast Six. Unfortunately, we couldn’t put it all together and that’s a little on me, but we’ll tune that for tomorrow. We’ll see what the weather does, but I think we’ll have a fast race car tomorrow.”