AJ Foyt Racing’s Santino Ferrucci in the No.14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet says that the Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix on Sunday wasn’t a terrible day but that it could have been worse.
Ferrucci started the race in 14th place and that is where he finished. Speaking following the action he said:
It was honestly a really good race on our red tire runs. It was a bit of a bummer to lose the hybrid due to heat soak. But I don’t think we were the only one struggling with something like that. Just our prime tire run, we didn’t account for the balance being as badly shifted as it was, and we kind of missed the strategy just a little bit, but overall, it wasn’t a terrible day. Could have been worse.
David Malukas in the No.4 Chevrolet started the race from 12th but was left disappointed as he ended the event in 18th place and speaking following the action he said:
It was a tough race. We knew it was going to be tough going into it, and it was almost a little bit of a curse, making it to Q2 and using up our reds because to everybody’s [surprise], I guess, we didn’t expect it, but the Reds [alternate tires] ended up being the better tire by quite a big margin. And we only had one new Red set when everybody else had two, and everybody kind of filtered out from there on. So made it to P8 on the new Reds, and from there, it was just survival, holding on. We came out with a P18 in the end. So really rough race. We knew it was going to be tough. Definitely a weekend to forget and move on to Long Beach.”