TEAM TARGET QUALIFY SECOND AND THIRD AT BRAZIL

Target Chip Ganassi Racing Sao Paulo Day-End Report

IZOD IndyCar Series Practice/Qualifying for the Sao Paulo Indy 300

Qualifying
P1 Will Power (No.12 Chevrolet) at 81.404 seconds  
P2 Dario Franchitti (No.10 Honda) at 81.448 seconds
P3 Scott Dixon (No.9 Honda) at 81.854 seconds

Practice 1
P1 Will Power (No.12 Chevrolet) at 82.387 seconds
P2 Dario Franchitti (No.10 Honda) at 82.395 seconds                            
P3 Scott Dixon (No.9 Honda) at 82.786 seconds

Practice 2
P1 Dario Franchitti (No.10 Honda) at 82.261 seconds                            
P2 Will Power (No.12 Chevrolet) at 82.342 seconds
P3 Ryan Hunter-Reay (No.28 Chevrolet) at 82.361 seconds
P4 Scott Dixon (No.9 Honda) at 82.426 seconds

TCGR Quoteboard
Dario Franchitti:  “It’s been a pretty good weekend so far for Team Target.  We’ve obviously had a difficult start to the season.  We off-loaded with a good Lexar car and made some improvements to it.  I’m a bit disappointed in qualifying, especially because the time is in the car.  On the first lap, Justin (Wilson) was in the runoff in the hairpin so I took it a bit easy there. And then the next lap I just messed it up to be honest, and I actually made up all of the time back again.  The time was in the car, I didn’t put it together. I’m a little disappointed in myself but at the same time I feel a lot more happy than I have in the last few races.”

Scott Dixon:  “We had a pretty good car.  It was fairly loose, which is a bit odd actually for this year.   Q2 was okay.  We ended up second or third there and thought we could go for the top spot in Q3.  We went out and went straight through the run-off in Turn 1 and couldn’t slow the car down; the brakes were a bit strange.  Then we went down into Turn 11 and the left-front locked straight away with a big flat spot and I went into the run-off. I had to get turned around and then take a lap to get going.   We got back to third. I was lucky that some of the other cars were a bit slower to get up to speed.”

Target Chip Ganassi Racing will compete in the Sao Paulo Indy 300 on the Streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday, April, 29 (12:00PM ET, NBC Sports Network).

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