Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
107th Running of the Indianapolis 500
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
QUALIFYING NOTES/QUOTES – Saturday, May 20, 2023
LEGGE QUALIFIED 30TH FOR HER THIRD INDY 500; RAHAL, HARVEY AND LUNDGAARD TO MAKE QUALIFYING ATTEMPTS SUNDAY
QUALIFYING SPEEDS
1st: Felix Rosenqvist 4-lap avg. speed of 233.947 mph
30th: Katherine Legge 4-lap avg. speed of 231.070 mph
n/a: Christian Lundgaard 4-lap avg. speed of 231.056 mph
n/a: Jack Harvey 4-lap avg. speed of 230.098 mph
n/a: Graham Rahal 4-lap avg. speed of 229.999 mph
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It’s a disappointing day to not be able to find more speed and sneak in there. We’ve just got to put our heads down tonight and try to find the speed necessary to sneak into the bottom three. It’s going to be tight. Jack and I are very equal it seems.”
JACK HARVEY, No. 30 PeopleReady Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It’s been a weird week. The first two days started out very good and then our lack of speed reared it’s head on Fast Friday. Sometimes you don’t know where you stack up until everyone is out there on the same program. We have worked very hard to find the speed but have not been able to make a big enough impact yet. We will continue to work on that tonight and come out fighting tomorrow.”
KATHERINE LEGGE, No. 44 Hendrickson Dallara/Honda/Firestone: (After her qualifying run🙂 “I can exhale a little bit now. My hands are still shaking. It’s just so much pressure. Come on, there’s nothing like it in the world. (After being ready to make a second run at the end of the day:) It was a bit stressful because I was out of time and we were getting ready to go do the same thing again if they were quicker and honestly we were out of time and we were at the mercy of the gods. Thankfully they were with me today. So was the Hendrickson Honda crew who did an awesome job getting me out there, getting me flat (on the accelerator) and getting me comfortable out there. So, now we will work on the race car and show what we’ve got.”
CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “We have basically covered the whole board on options. We have looked at every area that we track, that we can do different to extract more pace but we simply haven’t found the speed. I think there’s something in the cars that we need to identify for next time but I don’t think we are going to be able to find it here. Right now we’re working on getting in the show.”
NEXT UP: Qualifying will resume Sunday to set the final starting positions of the top 12 and positions 31-33. Get a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the 106th Indianapolis 500 via the Digital Ally Garage Camera on www.rahal.com.