Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
NTT INDYCAR SERIES
PRACTICE NOTES/QUOTES – Friday, February 25, 2022
RAHAL FIFTH, HARVEY SEVENTH AND LUNDGAARD 25TH IN FRIDAY’S LONE 45 MINUTE PRACTICE FOR THE FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG
1) Romain Grosjean 1:01.0525 / 106.138 mph
5) Graham Rahal 1:01.3683 / 105.592 mph
7) Jack Harvey 1:01.4903 / 105.382 mph
25) Christian Lundgaard 1:02.5246 / 103.639 mph
GRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “Practice 1 was generally good. We were P5 and fairly competitive to get going here with Jack in P7. We are generally good but still have some weaknesses in the car that we need to work through. But I would say for day one we are pretty pleased with the performance and the competitiveness. We’ll put our head down, try to improve a little in the morning, get the car a little more neutral, and ready to qualify and then go from there. We’re feeling good so far.”
CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD, No. 30 Panasonic / Shield Cleansers Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “St. Pete was a fun experience, I think there’s still a little bit of improvements to be made. It was a short session in the end, just an install, get out there and get running. I had an extra set of tires at the end but we got blocked on basically all the laps, so didn’t really manage to get a lap time in at the end. It’s tricky, but we will crack on and understand where to gain some time.”
JACK HARVEY, No. 45 Hy-Vee Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It was a pretty good day, really. I think we had a little bit more pace than what we showed which is textbook driver answer for P1, right? But I think the thing I was happy with, we had so much positivity coming into this weekend and just to get the ball rolling on a positive is really the big takeaway. There’s not much time to get used to everybody, for teams to get used to me, for me to get used to them and everything has been so easy and seamless. We’ve got pace to go and show just by putting the lap together a bit better. Pretty happy with the 45 HyVee Honda right now, so just going to keep chipping away, I think we ended some 7th or something but we want to do better than that.”
NEXT UP: Practice 2 will take place from 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. ET tomorrow and qualifying will take place from 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. and be televised live on Peacock Premium. The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will be televised live on NBC beginning at 12 PM ET Sunday, February 27 and the Green Flag will fly at 12:30 PM ET.