Jay Frye’s arrival at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as President of both the INDYCAR and IMSA programs is already bearing fruit just two races into his tenure with the Zionsville-based out.
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing managed to get all three of their cars in the Firestone Fast Six for today’s Sonsio Indy Grand Prix on the IMS road course with Graham Rahal in the No.15 Fifth Third Bank Honda starting the race from on the front row alongside pole sitter Alex Palou. Rahal set a fastest time of 1:09.7516s and speaking following the action he commented saying:
This is great for Fifth Third Bank, all of our partners and our whole team. It feels so good. This was why we ran the reds to get through the rounds. I knew Palou was going to have a new set of reds for the Fast Six. I didn’t think we were going to be on the front row; I didn’t think we were really competing for that. There were others that had new reds too but what a lap. In the Fast Six, we were just able to put it together. The balance was really consistent and matched my best of the whole day. It feels great for this entire team – everyone on the 15, 30 and 45 teams. We needed this; we expect to be good at the Indy road course race but to see it come together and have three cars in the top five is amazing. It feels awesome for our team.”
Rookie Louis Foster scored his best career qualifying in third place with a 1:09.8801s, while Devlin DeFrancesco starts the race from fifth. It can’t be understood that Frye’s new role with the team has as the team has show incredible improvements in just a short amount of time and this bodes well for the team heading into the Greatest Spectacle In Racing in two weeks time.