IZOD IndyCar Series Practice/Qualifying for the Honda
Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Qualifying
P1 Helio Castroneves (No.3
Chevrolet) at 70.476 seconds
P2 James Hinchcliffe (No.27
Chevrolet) at 70.522 seconds
P3 Scott Dixon (No.9
Honda) at 70.529 seconds
P18 Dario Franchitti
(No.10 Honda) at 70.674 seconds
Practice
Fog delay, one installation
lap and checkered.
NOTES
· Dixon advanced to the final
segment of qualifying for the first time this
season.
· Franchitti started the 2011
race in seventh and passed his way into the top-five by lap 10. After a caution
on lap 36, he made a pass for third position and kept a spot in the top-three
for the remainder of the race and went on to finish
third.
· In two visits to Barber
Motorsports Park, Team Target has two double podiums. Dixon recorded two
second-place finishes, while Franchitti has tallied two third-place
finishes.
· Dixon started the 2011 race
in third position and ran as high as second over the 90-lap race. He recorded
the fastest lap of the event on lap 73 en route to a second-place
finish.
TCGR Quoteboard
Dario Franchitti: “Lack of balance overall
really is what we dealt with. Lack of track time too and we haven't been great
so far. It didn't help that the second qualifying group was stout and there was
a lot of competition there. Not where we want to be but we'll go back and work
on it.”
Scott Dixon: “It was okay. Definitely
from yesterday we really struggled. We did a lot of changes overnight and with
the silly schedule we didn’t even get to get on track. So it was tough going in
and not really knowing what to expect, and it’s the first time in a long time
that I’ve been in that situation. So, all in all, Q1 went really well, we made
a couple changes, Q2 was strange with what happened with Hunter-Reay and a few
people getting bumped out, but I think we had the speed in the Fast Six, but I
messed up a sort of 14/15 complex and lost about a tenth. I think we would have
been close to pole, but definitely as strong as second for the Target
car.”
Target Chip Ganassi Racing
will compete in the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park
on Sunday, April 1 (2:00 PM ET, NBC Sports
Network).
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