Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta in the No.26 Gainbridge Honda was delighted with his tenth career NTT P1 Award at Road America on Saturday.
Herta had a great session and speaking following the action he said:
It was just a great car. We’ve been working at it the whole time. Like I said earlier, this place [Road America] with the repave is not easy. To have a car that was stable enough to really attack in the last Fast Six [final qualifying] was impressive. Big props to Nathan O’Rourke, my engineer, the whole Gainbridge Honda crew. It’s been way too long this year for us to get a pole, so it’s nice to finally get one!”
Championship leader Alex Palou in the No.10 The American Legion Chip Ganassi Racing Honda was happy with his qualifying effort as he starts the race from third saying:
It’s a bit disappointing, with the big crash that we had in [morning] practice. We put a lot of work into [repairing] it, not just the #10 car, but all of the Ganassi guys. But, they made it! They gave us the car that we needed to fight for pole. We missed a little bit—but honestly, missing so much of practice 2, I thought was going to affect us a bit more. But, good to be starting third. I’m going to be following Colton on the grid and hopefully we can have a Honda 1-2 after lap one!”
Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America Honda Qualifying Results
• 1st Colton Herta Andretti Autosport Honda
• 3rd Alex Palou Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
• 6th Kyle Kirkwood Andretti Autosport Honda
• 7th Christian Lundgaard Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
• 8th Marcus Armstrong-R Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
• 9th Marcus Ericsson Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
• 12th Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Autosport Honda
• 13th David Malukas Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Honda
• 14th Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
• 19th Romain Grosjean Andretti Autosport Honda
• 20th Simon Pagenaud Meyer Shank Racing Honda
• 23rd Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing Honda
• 24th Jack Harvey Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
• 25th Sting Ray Robb-R Dale Coyne Racing with RWR Honda
• 26th Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank Racing Honda
R – Rookie