AJ Foyt Racing’s Santino Ferrucci in the No.14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet starts Sunday’s Children’s of Alabama presented by Amfirst from 13th place and speaking ahead of the race after qualifying with a time of 01:07.8228s he said:
“It was an okay session. I think our car was pretty good, definitely fast enough to advance. It was really tough to get a gap. Also, the way that everything worked out, we were too heavy on fuel, which is honestly all the lap time that we really needed to advance as well. Or just having a clean out lap before we started our push lap to understand the balance correctly. You’re missing it by five hundreds of a second so it’s the blink of an eye. But these days it’s so tight. We sit good for tomorrow in 13thwith three sets of sticker reds and we’ll come through the field.
David Malukas in the No.4 Chevrolet was disappointed after topping the times on Saturday morning; he qualified in 20th place. Speaking following the session, he said:
We finished up qualifying obviously a lot shorter than what we were expecting. Looking at these times, the car was fast enough for it, we had the pace, just unfortunate, unfortunate. Just keep getting very unlucky in all these situations. And in this qualifying session, we just got jam-packed with the timing. Everybody jumped us in pit lane and we didn’t get a clear lap. So this one I think frustrates everybody the most, and it hurts because we knew we had an incredible car and we didn’t even make it out of group one just because of track position. It’s the way the game is. It sucks but we’ll calm down, put our heads down and come up with a good strategy for the race. We know we have a fast car so we’ll be trying to bring it forward tomorrow.”