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107th Running of the Indianapolis 500
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
FAST FRIDAY NOTES/QUOTES – May 19, 2023
FAST FRIDAY IS IN THE BOOKS; QUALIFYING FOR THE 107TH INDIANAPOLIS 500 BEGINS SATURDAY
1) Takuma Sato 234.753 mph
29) Katherine Legge 231.4204 mph
31) Jack Harvey 231.166 mph
32) Christian Lundgaard 231.153 mph
33) Graham Rahal 230.669 mph
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It’s been a tough day. I certainly hope overnight that we can find a couple of things, but it appears that we’re going to have to hang our hat on consistency to try and get our way into this thing. We are not going to get there by speed. So tomorrow and Sunday could be very interesting days for us.”
JACK HARVEY, No. 30 PeopleReady Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I think the No. 30 PeopleReady car has some speed to find overnight and I’m not exactly sure what happened at the end there. We’ve just got to get with Honda and everyone at HPD about what happened and how we can try and fix it for tomorrow. It’s a privilege to do this in the first place. No matter what’s going on I’m grateful to be one of the drivers trying to get into the race. Hopefully, tomorrow is better than today.”
KATHERINE LEGGE, No. 44 Hendrickson Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “Today was difficult. It’s always cool when you get to Fast Friday and you get to turn up the power but you don’t know what you’re going to get and all of the idiosyncrasies in the car come to life. So, we were working through a program with the other three cars and we were one step forward and two steps back in trying to make progress in the general direction. I think in that last run we did make progress. I don’t know how much of it was track conditions and because it was cooler. The engineers will go back and look at things and analyze. Hopefully we will come back tomorrow and put it in the show.”
CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “Fast Friday is done. I’m definitely more pleased with Fast Friday this year than we were as a team last year so in that regard it’s a positive. You can argue it’s a negative that we’re all close, especially in the position we’re in, but I think all cars are similar. We’re lacking some pace which will be interesting for tomorrow. Its not the best position to be in but its good we got a low draw for a qualifying attempt with seventh.”
NEXT UP: Qualifying for the 107th Running of the Indy 500 will begin tomorrow. The top 30 will be locked in Saturday with 1-12 vying for final positions in another attempt on Sunday. The final row will also be locked in on Sunday. Get a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the 106th Indianapolis 500 via the Digital Ally Garage Camera on www.rahal.com.