Barry Wanser, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Team Manager and strategist for the No.10 HRC Honda driven by Alex Palou says that he hopes the team can have a great day on Sunday at the Indianapolis 500.
Speaking to Paddock Eye following Sunday’s Children’s Grand Prix of Alabama, Wanser said:
I’m not sure it’s adapting. It’s carrying on when what we’ve been doing. The adapting is really for the car changes, how it’s built, especially for the Speedway.
But we take steps very similar to what we do everything else. The only difference is at Indy we get longer practice sessions, right? We run every day longer, six hours track is available. There’s a lot more we can do each day leading up to qualifying weekend. We also have additional practice on Monday after qualifying.
At that point that’s the first practice session where you know all of the cars are working on race setups. All the cars you’re running around, you might necessarily know their fuel or tire level, but you know everyone is working on race setups and race downforce.
One of the challenging things during the week leading up to qualifying, work on stuff early. The cars just get rebuilt for Carb Day, then we get through that, hopefully have a great day on Sunday.
Palou heads to next Saturday’s Sonsio Grand Prix of Indianapolis on the IMS road course leading the championship by 60 points from Christian Lundgaard.