Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
QUALIFYING NOTES/QUOTES – August 19, 2022
HARVEY, RAHAL AND LUNDGAARD QUALIFIED 15TH, 17TH AND 19TH, RESPECTIVELY, IN THE BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500
POLE: Will Power 2-lap avg. speed of 182.727 mph (L1: 24.6757, L2: 24.5782 mph)
15th: Jack Harvey 2-lap avg. speed of 178.775 mph (L1: 25.1626, L2: 25.1800 mph)
17th: Graham Rahal 2-lap avg. speed of 178.657 mph (L1: 25.2192, L2: 25.1568 mph)
19th: Christian Lundgaard 2-lap avg. speed of 178.165 mph (L1: 25.3216, L2: 25.1935 mph)
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 iPacket Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I’m pretty surprised about qualifying to be frank. I expected a lot more than that. This morning it was relatively easy to do that 25.0 pace but obviously I couldn’t replicate it at all in qualifying; I wasn’t even close. It’s disappointing. In Turns 3 and 4, it felt like I had about 60 percent of the grip that I did earlier. We made no changes, just a different set of tires. I don’t know why that is. We need to find a little bit more. Our race pace looked good.”
CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. 30 Mi-Jack Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I think our qual run was quite decent. I wasn’t quite happy with the car this morning after practice so we went closer to what Graham had, and he was quick in practice. I underestimated the grip, I think, in the quali run but the points are tomorrow.”
JACK HARVEY, 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It was a decent run. The laps were pretty consistent. I needed a little more rotation just to try to get through Turns 1 and 2 a little better but that was probably my only limiting factor really. At this track, hundredths-of-a-second really make such a huge different. If we left a little bit on the table in balance obviously that’s going to hurt us a little bit. I think the cars unloaded pretty decent. I didn’t quite have Graham’s pace in practice but I think we made a good step and improved since the practice session. I think we’ve got some momentum right now. We’ve just got to keep chugging away.”
NEXT UP: Final practice will take place tonight from 7:45 – 8:45 p.m. ET. USA Network will begin live coverage of the 260-lap Bommarito Automotive Group 500 on Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and the field will take the Green Flag at 6:30 p.m. ET.