Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix – Streets of Downtown Detroit
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
RACE NOTES/QUOTES – June 4, 2023
LUNDGAARD, HARVEY AND RAHAL FINISHED 16TH, 17TH AND 25TH IN THE DETROIT GRAND PRIX’S RETURN TO DOWNTOWN
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I got a lot of understeer, but it’s on me. I need to see the tape obviously, and understand what happened. I’m just so disappointed in myself with the errors this weekend. It’s hard when you’re in a position like this to escape to figure out why. But it ultimately is on me. I’ve got to perform a heck of a lot better than that. Particularly on a day like this. It’s not typical of me. I know you’ve got to stay on the dance floor and I don’t know what to say. We weren’t good obviously in the race. It’s disappointing and I’m sorry to United Rentals, to Fifth Third Bank, Fleet Cost and Care, and all of our partners that have committed so much to this program. We need to reset. I need to reset, and I need to come back much, much stronger in Road America.”
JACK HARVEY, 30 Kustom Entertainment Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “Starting where we did, without a super advantageous yellow, you’ve just to pick up the pieces when you can which I think we did today. I think right at that last stint, I don’t think we needed to try and do the undercut. I think we were struggling to get tire temp. The reason we tried the undercut was that was our get-home number so if it had gone yellow out there, we would have been looking really good in the end. The difference between finishing 15th and 17th is neither here nor there. All things considered, I think we had a pretty good race today on the No. 30 Kustom Entertainment car. We don’t come to have a good race and finish 17th, that was just a good recovery day. I want to see us consistently in the Top 10 so that’s what we are going to keep working for.”
CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “We will spend the next week investigating and understanding why we weren’t as competitive as we wanted to be and get ready for Road America. I think Road America will be a track that will suit our car especially after the GMR Grand Prix. It’s a smooth, flowing track so we will need to extract as much as we can once we know we have a good package there. That’s our target for now. But the race here was just a bumpy run really, not being able to capitalize on other people’s mistakes and not able to get going on the restarts, which hurt our race today.”
NEXT UP: The series will take next weekend off and return to action June 16-18 for the Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America.