Live from the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

SUNDAY, MARCH 11
RESULTS
Warmup: P22, 1:03.5847
Race: P20

RACE STATS
Finishing position: 20th
Starting position: 21st
Pit stops: 6
Average speed: 83.739 mph
Cautions: 8, for 25 laps total
Lead changes: 11 among 5 drivers
Championship standing: 20th

IN CK’S WORDS
“Honestly it was a disappointing day results-wise. At Carlin, you don’t come to the track to finish 19th and 20th, our goal really is to be fighting for race wins and podiums. We came into this weekend with limited knowledge and experience in the series, but I’d say we probably doubled or even tripled our knowledge on the Indy cars here in St. Pete. I’m looking forward to going back and getting with the engineers, learning, digesting, and figuring out what we need to do in the future. We’ve got a couple of tests before the Phoenix race and we tested there a few weeks back, so I know that we’ll be more competitive at the next race and continue to work our way forward.”

FROM PIT LANE

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SATURDAY, MARCH 10
Results
Practice 3: P22, 1:01.9193
Qualifying: P21, 1:01.1868

IN CK’S WORDS
“Our qualifying result might not have been exactly what we wanted, but at the same time we made progress every session on track especially during qualifying. The No. 23 Novo Nordisk Chevrolet has run without any mechanical issues this whole race weekend so far and that’s a credit to the work of Trevor (Carlin), Colin (Hale), and all the mechanics at Carlin. We’re making progress, we’re learning. With new bodywork, there’s a lot to learn aerodynamically and mechanically for everyone. We’re making good progress and we’re learning quickly. I know we’ll be ready to put a good, clean race together tomorrow.”

FROM PIT LANE

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FRIDAY, MARCH 9
RESULTS
Practice 1: P21, 1:03.6210
Practice 2: P19, 1:01.9166

IN CK’S WORDS
“We’ve learned a lot every time we’ve been on track in the No. 23 Novo Nordisk Chevrolet, whether it’s been testing or during today’s two practices. When you’re starting from scratch informationally, any time you do a lap you make progress. We actually made quite a bit of progress today and we learned a lot. We have a good direction to head tomorrow and obviously tomorrow is when it counts with qualifying, so we need to try and maximize the setup on the car. I know the guys at Carlin have already made a monumental effort to have such a trouble-free day on our first day at a race track for a race and I know tonight we’ll work to make it even better for tomorrow.”

FROM PIT LANE