Charlie Kimball's Blog

SUNDAY, JUNE 24
RESULTS
Race: P18

RACE STATS
Finishing position: 18th
Starting position: 19th
Pit stops: 4
Average speed: 129.874 mph
Cautions: 0
Lead changes: 2 among 2 drivers
Race passes: 161 total; 125 for position
Championship standing: 17th

DEBRIEF
“It’s been a character-building weekend for everyone here at Carlin. I’m proud of the guys for trying something different on strategy for the race today. We knew that it was a possibility that the race would go full green here, which meant that our strategy for the No. 23 Novo Nordisk Chevrolet might not work as well, but we felt like that was a risk worth taking. We’ll go back and look at all of the data, keep learning, and keep taking steps forward. I’m looking forward to going to Iowa in a few weeks. We had good race pace on the last short oval we raced on in Phoenix, so we’re optimistic about our starting point there.”

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23
RESULTS
Practice 3: P20, 1:45.1154
Qualifying: P19, 1:45.1161

DEBRIEF
“That’s not the result that we’re all here for obviously and I think everyone here at Carlin is disappointed with that qualifying result, but at the same time I know Max and I both have a lot of confidence in this team and our engineering staff. We’ll look at all of the data tonight and learn from each other and try to come up with a plan for tomorrow’s race. The nice thing is that we’re still learning and we’re still constantly making progress, so it’s not like we’re out of options. We still have a lot left to try and a lot left to learn, so we’ll just keep moving forward.”

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FRIDAY, JUNE 22
RESULTS
Practice 1: P20, 1:44.905
Practice 2: P22, 1:45.1363

DEBRIEF
“Obviously that wasn’t the day we wanted for the No. 23 car. We’re struggling for balance and grip—a little bit of both. But we’ve got some good ideas, good data to look through and some concepts to think about. We’ll make solid, reasonable, intelligent changes for tomorrow. Hopefully we can pick a good direction out of that and be ready for qualifying.”

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