Larry Foyt, President of AJ Foyt Racing says that it is just awesome after Santino Ferrucci in the No.14 Phoenix Investors Chevrolet the team’s first NTT P1 Award in ten years.
Larry Foyt said:
It’s just awesome,” I mean, the trajectory where we’ve been headed as a team, it’s just been great. We’ve added so many great people to our group. Santino (Ferrucci) is just getting better all of the time. This is just a testament to everything we’re doing. Thanks to the affiliation with Penske. Certainly, a huge help. Those guys are awesome, but our guys just really delivered today and Santino drove the wheels off. It’ll be good to call dad. It’ll be a fun call for a change. I hope the Sextons were watching because they’re a huge part of this comeback. The Phoenix livery looks beautiful too. It’s great, just a great day.”
Santino Ferrucci commented on his first pole saying:
I mean, this is definitely one of the greatest days of my career. “In qualifying, too, it’s so tight. This series is so incredibly talented. To be doing this today is such a feat for us and the team, and it shows how hard we’ve been working. I can’t thank everybody enough for believing in me.”
With Felix Rosenqvist of Meyer Shank Racing out of position, Santino Ferrucci and AJ Foyt have put themselves in a great position for a strong result on Sunday.
Ferrucci went on to say:
Man, I think it’s no secret how hard we’ve been working this year, how hard I’ve been working, Larry (Foyt), our entire staff. “I mean, my first career pole in an Indy car and I’m not known for being the best qualifier and today, we just felt it. We unrolled off the trailer amazing. It’s been a year of hard work and progression. We’ve showed some real speed at certain times and it feels great to put it together, man. I can’t just thank this entire team enough, Sexton Properties, Phoenix Investors, everybody that’s involved, Chevrolet. We brought it.”
While team owner and INDYCAR SERIES legend AJ Foyt was not trackside on Saturday he said:
We’ve been close before but it’s so close now where they’ve been right there three or four times so I’m just glad it finally happened. I told Larry to tell Santino and the team congratulations because they’ve worked really hard and I’m proud of them.”
AJ Foyt Racing’s Michael Cannon said:
I’m just so blessed to work with so many really good drivers, really great drivers, a lot more great drivers and these great engineers. “This has been a 19-month project getting here and I can’t thank Larry (Foyt) enough for giving me this opportunity to build a racing team, Roger Penske and his group, Ron and all the guys there (at Team Penske) with all of the help they’ve been giving us, it’s made a world of difference. We’ve turned this team completely around from tail end Charlie to pole. This is magnificent.”
Cannon, who has worked with the likes of Scott Dixon said:
Everything. It means everything. I hope A.J. is watching. I hope he’s proud of us. It was what I was hired to do. A lot of us came in here given a blank slate, not necessarily a blank check but a blank slate. To pull this off is remarkable. It’s one of the best days of my 42 years of racing that I can remember. Just truly remarkable, so proud of (this crew), and I’m so glad I could do this for Larry and A.J.”