Marco Andretti, No. 26 Team RC Cola Andretti Autosport Chevrolet, posted the third quickest lap of the day, setting the stage for tomorrow’s qualifying sessions that lead to the Firestone Fast Six and a run for the pole. There will be a one-hour practice session from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. ET leading up to the 11:00 a.m. start time for qualifying.
The 85-lap Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio is scheduled to start on Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. ET with live television coverage on the ABC TV.
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TEAM CHEVY DRIVER POST PRACTICE QUOTES:
WILL POWER, NO. 12 VERIZON TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET – FASTEST IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: ON TODAY’S PRACTICE: “We got a pretty good baseline at the test. We really struggled here last year, so we put a lot of emphasis on this track. I think we’ve got a good car. We ran new tires at the end; I think some of the other guys didn’t. We just need to keep pushing on the details we need to be fast, and go after the bloody championship.”
ON RACING FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP: “We basically have to get some race wins if we want to win the championship. Maybe not so many risks, but just smart races and gaining points. Really just finishing ahead of (Ryan) Hunter-Reay and Helio (Castroneves) at the moment is going to put us in a good position.”
ON THE CONDITIONS DURING PRACTICE: “The condition at the end there similar to how the test ended. Pretty much the whole field tested last week. I think everyone got a reasonable read on how it is going to be. It was pretty hot (during the test). It was a little hotter today though, and then it ended up raining (during the test).”
ON THE TRACK: “The track just gets better here on every single run, on every lap. It has a coating on the top of it, I don’t know what it is, but it just takes more grip, and grips. It just continually grips up, then another series goes out there and the track goes backwards. Then in the morning you have to start again. That is how it is, and it makes it bloody hard to drive. Makes it interesting qualifying.”
MARCO ANDRETTI, NO. 26 TEAM RC COLA ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT CHEVROLET – 3RD FASTEST IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: “We were good at the test (last week at Mid-Ohio), and that carried over to today. We didn’t even run our last set of tires, so that proves right there how quick the RC Cola car was today. We were one change away from going much quicker than that…”
SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS NO. 7 TRUECAR-MCAFEE DRAGON RACING CHEVROLET – 11TH FASTEST IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: ON TODAY’S PRACTICE: “We’re just three full-tenths shy of the hot ticket, the hot crowd. We are coming off a pretty decent test where we narrowed down the options, but we are kind of running out. We tried quite a few things. We still have some ideas, but it is a quick weekend. You get one less (practice) session. Tomorrow is going to be difficult to understand what’s going to happen because from 140 degress on the track, it’s going to go down to 70 or 80 (during morning practice). Then back up for qualifying. It’s just a lot of variables that really seem to hurt us. We can’t seem to able to hit the target. We know what is going to happen and we need to do this and we need to do that. We try to shoot for a solution for a given problem and the problem changes because things change so much from one session to another. The team is doing a good job, but we haven’t found what we are looking for.”
ORIOL SERVIA, NO. 22 PANTHER/DREYER & REINBOLD RACING CHEVROLET – 12TH FASTEST IN FRIDAY PRACTICE:
JR HILDEBRAND, NO. 4 NATIONAL GUARD PANTHER RACING CHEVROLET – 13TH IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: “I feel like we had a pretty good session. We got held up in some traffic there at the end, and I think we had a few extra tenths in the car. After the test last week, we came here with a couple of things in particular that we wanted to try today, and we did. We felt like we knocked off some of the big things we were trying to accomplish. At this track, with a tight as it is, getting the finer details sorted out is going to be where a lot of the lap time is going to come from. I think Oriol (Servia) and I are really close in terms of what we’re able to do with the cars right now, and I feel pretty confident that we can continue to figure things out and that we’ll have a good car for qualifying tomorrow.”
HELIO CASTRONEVES, NO. 3 PENSKE TRUCK RENTAL CHEVROLET – 14TH IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: “It was a good day for the No. 3 Penske Truck Leasing team. I didn’t get to practice much here a week ago because of an accident so we felt a little behind plus it doesn’t help that I am not feeling well. I’m confident we will turn things around and hopefully this is just the beginning to a very good weekend.”
RYAN BRISCOE, NO. 2 PPG AUTOMOTIVE REFINISHES TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET – 15TH IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: “We had a decent day during our short practice session. We have some changes to make on the No. 2 PPG machine, but we didn’t change tires during the session which led us to finish a little bit down the list on the lap times. I feel we’ve got a good car and we should have a good shot at the pole tomorrow.”
RYAN HUNTER-REAY, NO. 28 TEAM DHL/SUN DROP CITRUS SODA/ PELOTONIA ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT – 16TH IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: “We didn’t learn much from that session. It was a short practice interrupted by a lot of yellows. So, with so few laps, we never got a good read on the car. But, Marco (Andretti) was really fast, so we’re able to take advantage of being a three-car team and use what he learned to help us for tomorrow.”
JAMES HINCHCLIFFE, NO. 27 TEAM GODADDY.COM ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT CHEVROLET – 17TH IN FINAL PRACTICE: “The track is a little less grippy than it was at the test last week, and unloading with a car as it was at the test – I think we struggled a little bit but I’m not really too worried about it. I had a small spin early on, just me being silly. We only tested a couple things because we know the baseline car is pretty good based on what we saw at the test last week, so I think as the weekend goes on and the track rubbers up it will come to us a bit more and we can move the Go Daddy car up the charts.”
RUBENS BARRICHELLO, NO. 8 BMC/EMBRASE KV RACING TECHNOLOGY CHEVROLET – 20TH IN FRIDAY PRACTICE:
E.J. VISO, NO. 5 CITGO/PDVSA KV RACING TECHNOLOGY CHEVROLET – 21ST IN FRIDAY PRACTICE:
TONY KANAAN, NO. 11 GEICO/MOUSER ELECTRONICS KV RACING TECHNOLOGY CHEVROLET – 22ND IN FRIDAY PRACTICE:
ED CARPENTER, NO. 20 FUZZY’S PREMIUM ULTRA VODKA ED CARPENTER RACING CHEVROLET – 25TH IN FRIDAY PRACTICE: “We had a bit of a brake issue for two-thirds of the session today. So I really didn’t get to work on the car setup too much. But we finally got it resolved towards the end of the session, and we were then able to adjust a few things on the car. At least we were able to improve the car from the test last week. So I think we are moving in the right direction. The track is much different the day of the test. It’s much hotter and we have rubber from the ALMS cars on the track surface. I think the track was better last week after the AMA bike rubber was on the surface. But the biggest issue for us today were the brakes. Now we can work on getting the car better for Saturday.”
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