Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood in the No.27 Siemens AWS Honda was happy with his Froday in Detroit.
The Floridian ended the day fastest and was happy despite Will Power hitting him during practice.
Speaking following the action he said:
“I don’t know. “Everyone goes slow around here. The track’s not big enough to fit all the cars, and he got frustrated. Whatever, I guess. I’m not upset. I don’t care. We’re P1.”
Will Power ended the day in third and the incident with Kirkwood he said:
“I came around, and he slowed up in the middle and made contact. So, I thought, ‘Well, I may as well get a gap now,’ so I just pushed him past the car in front, just moved him out of the way and got a really nice gap.”
Power went on to say:
The Verizon Chevy was very good on the softer tire. Struggled a bit on blacks to get it exactly right. Yeah. Big, big difference. The soft tires are not bad. They lasted three, four laps, like, pushing really hard. So maybe that bodes well for the race. You can actually use them. The first two street courses we’ve done, they’ve degraded a lot, but that didn’t feel terrible. That may be okay. But my car is certainly better on reds. We just have to work out what to do for blacks. There’s always a lot of traffic here, a lot of chaos.”
Scott McLaughlin in the No.3 TireRack.com Chevrolet was second and speaking following the action he said:
“Pretty solid day for us in the TireRack.com Chevy. We went through our paces and went through our laps and we’ve got a pretty good car. I really want to do this for Chevy on their home ground.”