Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
Honda Indy Toronto – Streets around Exhibition Place
RACE NOTES/QUOTES – Sunday, July 17, 2022
RAHAL EARNED HIS TOP HONDA INDY TORONTO FINISH OF FOURTH PLACE, LUNDGAARD EARNED HIS TOP SERIES FINISH OF EIGHTH AND HARVEY WAS 19TH AFTER PIT STOP ISSUES
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “Fourth place for us in Toronto and let me tell you, for the United Rentals team, P4 feels like a W. We’ll take that. I’m very proud of our guys. They put their heads down and kept working hard. We earned this result; it certainly wasn’t given to us. That first stint was really good. Our pace was unbelievable out front leading and ultimately that put us in the position that even the yellow kind of hurt our strategy to be frank but the yellow also put us in a position that the guys just knocked it out of the park with that pit stop. Plus four in one pit stop; amazing job by them! We had a fill in fueler – Jacob – who did an amazing job. And “Cuz” was here filling in for us this weekend. I’m just super proud of the United Rentals team. It was a great comeback for us. We’ve been down in the dumps but to come back and get a fourth place here feels really good. Iowa here we come!”
CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. 30 HUB International Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It was a tough, long race that didn’t pan out in anyone’s favor except the early stoppers and the guys that did a middle stint on reds. We went long on the first stint on reds and came out behind the guys that pitted early that undercut us. And then a yellow came out and the guys ahead could have a free stop and etc. so I think we were unlucky with most of it. It was a long race for sure. I think we struggled a bit with degradation. We didn’t have the power down we needed to get further forward so it’s something we need to look at but it’s a good starting point for Nashville.”
JACK HARVEY, 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “We arrived to Toronto more competitive in general which is a good omen for the team. Obviously, everyone has been working really hard but we’ve got to get our pit stops better and we’ve got to do better race strategies than that because we took a car that was easily capable of being in the top-10 and took it to P19, so we’ve got some work to do.”
NEXT UP: The much-anticipate Hy-Vee INDYCAR Weekend will take place next weekend at Iowa Speedway. The Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 will air on NBC on Saturday, July 23 at 4:00 p.m. ET and the Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers 300 will air on NBC on Sunday, July 24 at 3:00 p.m. ET.