Live from the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
SUNDAY, APRIL 9
RESULTS
Warm-up: P9, 1:07.4733
Race: P21
RACE STATS
Finishing position: 21st
Starting position: 7th
Cautions: 3 for a total of 11 laps
Lead changes: 6 among 3 drivers
Championship standing: 21st
Notes: The No. 83 car was involved in an incident with car No. 12 on lap one at turn 4. Damage sustained to the No. 83 car forced the team to retire early.
IN CK’S WORDS
“To say I am frustrated with how today’s race went would be an understatement. I thought I was clear of the 12 but I obviously wasn’t. He turned me and put me in the wall pretty heavy. I am really disappointed for the guys – they worked so hard to get the car to a good place for today’s race. The No. 83 Tresiba Honda was fast and I thought we had a lot of potential for a solid result in today’s race.”
FROM PIT LANE
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SATURDAY, APRIL 8
RESULTS
Practice 3: P12, 1:07.5470
Qualifying: P7, 1:06.5404
IN CK’S WORDS
“Obviously after yesterday I am really pleased to qualify seventh today. I think we made the car a lot better overnight which showed this morning. We were able to make some more improvements for qualifying, so pretty happy with that but being within a hundredth of making the Firestone Fast 6 is a new version of frustrating. I think tomorrow we should have a good car, put together clean stops a clean race through the first couple laps, and settle into a rhythm. I know my guys will get the job done really well in pit lane; we just have to put the laps together and get the fuel mileage we need and see where we end up at the end of the day.”
FROM PIT LANE
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FRIDAY, APRIL 7
RESULTS
Practice 1: P17, 1:08.6898
Practice 2: P17, 1:08.3624
IN CK’S WORDS
“Well, it’s not the result we wanted for today. I know the 83 team is going to work hard tonight to figure out what’s going on and be ready for tomorrow. We found a little bit of speed at the end there, but we weren’t on fresh tires so we’ll look at it. I’ve got a little bit to learn overnight, and it’s nice to have fast teammates with Scott and Tony being a little quicker. We’ll look at their data and learn from that. I’m a little frustrated because I always want to come out and start Friday off right but as Dario says, it’s all about recovery.”
FROM PIT LANE
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