Will Power in the No.12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet has had a tough weekend in Detroit after planting his car into the back of Kyle Kirkwood on Friday.
The pair laughed off the incident and moved on from it.
Power starts today’s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear from eighth place following a penalty for Graham Rahal.
Speaking following Saturday’s qualifying, Power said:
Woooh. That was a good lap. I think I missed a bit in (Turn) 3 because the lap before I locked up. I just needed to do it the lap before. That’s where the tire was the best. One-tenth gets us through. It’s INDYCAR, man, it’s so, so, so tight. If you leave a little bit of something somewhere, you’re not going to make it. Not a big deal here. It’s a lot of mayhem. For that lap, that’s only ninth. My gosh.”
Scott McLaughlin in the No.3 TireRack.com Chevrolet starts the race from seventh and speaking following the action he commented saying:
It was OK. I caught Rasmussen at the wrong time on that push lap. I think we missed by a hundredth. It’s so tight in INDYCAR you can’t afford to give yourself enough gap to get a run. I think we maximized as much as we could and that’s where we are.
Josef Newgarden in the No.2 Astemo Chevrolet had a horrid qualifying and starts the race in 24th.
Speaking following the action he said:
Would obviously like to have that lap back. We were on a flier that would have transferred to the second round. That is just street course racing. It’s close quarters and you can’t make a mistake. The Astemo Chevy has been solid since we rolled off the truck so we can move forward tomorrow.”