IRL post race quotes

RYAN HUNTER-REAY (No. 28 Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda Chevrolet, winner Iowa Corn Indy 250): "That was very challenging. We were sliding around a little bit more today. I have to thank Marco (Andretti).   They came here and tested. Marco put the set up on the car.   When we came here, we tweaked it just a little.   From there, we basically raced with what he tested with. We got another win for Chevy, DHL and Sun Drop. Marco and I raced really hard out there, really clean. It's great to have a teammate like that and we're just so happy to be in Victory Lane twice in a row."MARCO ANDRETTI (No. 26 Team RC Cola Chevrolet):  "It was a lot of fun, the car came alive in the second stint. I think we in hindsight could have taken another turn of the front wing and been really hard to beat at the end, but we kept the car how it is and I kind of ran out of tools at the end and had a lot of understeer. Great team effort, definitely a statement from Andretti Autosport and congrats to Ryan."SCOTT DIXON (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda):"The car was decent and we struggled early on with under steer and I don't think I did a good job of asking to get it dialed out. Toward the end I could only go to the bottom and when I got high it just had too much under steer. We gave it the best we could and got stuck behind two slower Honda cars at the end who we had trouble getting around. I was a bit confused over that but I'm not sure we were going to hang on and win either. Tough night for the Target team."SIMON PAGENAUD (No. 77 Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports Honda): "I've never started last before! When I saw everyone in front of me at the start, I couldn't believe I was back there. I was sitting in the car before the race and thinking about my girlfriend's father who passed away this week. We were very close. He watched every race of mine, and I felt like he was watching me still tonight. My thought process starting the race was 'just to move forward.' It was really difficult at the beginning. We were already a lap down before I got confident with the car. Something just clicked, and everything unlocked and we started moving forward. I'm really starting to enjoy the ovals. It's close racing and it's fun."HELIO CASTRONEVES (No. 3 Penske Truck Rental Chevrolet): "The Penske Truck Rental car ran out front it seems like the entire night. The positive is that we are moving up in the championship points and getting closer to my teammate. The downside is losing a race that we could have won. A lot of credit goes to my guys, they did a phenomenal job on pit stops all night long. Now it is on to Toronto and hopefully we can keep moving to the top."TAKUMA SATO (No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda): "It was a very hard race, we fought very hard. The boys did a great job to regroup after a difficult weekend. We didn't have the speed this weekend. We tried to find the speed and were improving but it was such a hard race. We were just hanging in there and it was as tough of a race as I have ever had. I am looking forward to getting back on road and street courses and also look forward to going to Canada."

SIMONA DE SILVESTRO (No. 78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy Lotus HVM Racing Lotus): "I'm pretty happy with 14th, that's our second best finish this year, and it was on an oval. I think there was a lot of survival going on out there, but I think we had a really strong race car. It was really comfortable out there so I could stay in the tow of other people. A big thanks to the team, they kept working really hard every time. Even when we know it's going to be a tough weekend we always hope for the best. I think today we had a pretty good result at the end. Hopefully we'll get some improvements for the road courses and start sneaking into the top 10."GRAHAM RAHAL (No. 38 Service Central Honda): Graham: It was a long day. We were just really struggling to get any grip and were hanging on for 250 laps. I'm happy to come away with a top-10. We're going to keep working on it and that's what you have to do. Hopefully, we'll get a little better.CHARLIE KIMBALL (No. 83 NovoLog FlexPen Honda): "It was a fun night overall.  I learned more in the second-half of tonight's race than all of the short ovals we've done all year. I've got to give a lot of credit to the Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing guys.  I was working my marks.  They rocked it in pit lane.  There was one stop where we went by four or five guys in pit lane.  They kept making the car better and giving me more and more speed in pit lane. I was learning in traffic.  In the end there, we just brought it home, knocking on the door of a top-10, which is good to build some momentum heading into this string of road courses.TONY KANAAN (No. 11 GEICO /Mouser Electronics- KV Racing Technology Chevrolet): "It was a great day for us. I wished we had started further up the field, but the GEICO | MOUSER guys gave me a great car. We don't take the podium finish for granted, but I think we had a car that could have won the race. There were lots of dodgy moves out there. People were driving kind of crazy. I hope the fans liked the race. Now we have to capitalize on what we have done so far, the championship is getting tight. Hopefully we can get a win soon."ED CARPENTER (No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka/Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet): "Another top 10 and another race starting in the back and fighting our way forward. We lost a lap twice and got it back pretty late to make a charge. We made a bad call on the first wave around and I lost the lap again on a pit stop. We pitted too quickly before we packed up. But similar to Milwaukee (when he passed E.J. Viso on a restart), I was able to pass (Scott) Dixon on a restart and the yellow came out immediately.   I was able to pack up and pick up a few more spots before the end. I think I've always gotten good restarts but never gotten praised for it like TK (Tony Kanaan) or (Tomas) Scheckter. I feels that is a strength of mine. When you get opportunities in a race you have to make the most of them. I thought I had better than Dixon and that was going to be my last chance to get a lap back. And we got a good break on the yellow. Happy to get another top-ten but I had to work much too hard for it. The Fuzzy's car could have been a top-five car today." JAMES HINCHCLIFFE (No. 27 Team GoDaddy.com Chevrolet): "On the restart there, we've been understeering all night, which is sort of the weird thing about (the crash). We pulled in for the stop and I don't know man, it's just one of those things. The dirty air there behind Ryan making passes towards the front and the cars had been running better on the bottom all night so I was able to take that high line like a lot of guys were and tuck it down there and try to follow Katherine's groove. Snapped once, snapped twice almost got it and then it went around. I feel bad for the Go Daddy guys, obviously the cars are running really well and I thought we had a good shot at winning this thing, and I just feel bad for the guys on the team."

RUBENS BARRICHELLO (No. 8 BMC/Embrase - KV Racing Technology Chevrolet): "I must say I am happy with this 7th place finish. I started the race on a completely different set up and for two stints my car was pretty loose. We managed not to lose a lap and once the car got better after the changes we made in the first two pit stops then I was able to race. It's still such a different experience on this ovals but like I said I am pleased with the result."IZOD INDYCAR SERIES POINT STANDINGS1.      Will Power       2862.      Ryan Hunter-Reay       2833.      Scott Dixon      2714.      Helio Castroneves        2615.      James Hinchcliffe        2566.      Simon Pagenaud (R)    2467.      Tony Kanaan   2358.      Dario Franchitti2169.      Ryan Briscoe   20510. Graham Rahal  193IZOD INDYCAR SERIES MANUFACTURERS CHAMPIONSHIPChevrolet         72Honda  62Lotus   36SUNOCO ROOKIE OF THE YEAR STANDINGSSimon Pagenaud   246Josef Newgarden  126Katherine Legge   103Bryan Clauson     13Wade Cunningham           13Jean Alesi             13SUKUP 100 POST-RACE QUOTES:ESTEBAN GUERRIERI (No. 11 Pistas Argentinas SSM w/Curb-Agajanian, Sukup 100 winner): ""It was a race where I didn't have a great start - Tristan took off early and I lost my second position -  I was actually back to third.  The key was to then be patient - I was close to first but I was burning my front tires trying to get there too fast.  I tried to save the tires - I got to second behind Tristan and I was patient.  It is clear the man in front can't block and he blocked me so they had to give him the penalty.  He unfortunately got the penalty, and I was up front.  I am very happy with my third win of the season.  I tried to get away from the lapped traffic and stay up front and I that is where I stayed."OLIVER WEBB (No. 7 Lucas Oil/Sam Schmidt Motorsports): "My first start was really good, but unfortunately I was swarmed by about five cars. I settled in and was clicking good lap times compared to the leaders though. My race was pretty much lost from there so I just tried to help my teammates. When Victor was passing me I caught his air and maybe I was a little too nice to him. Unfortunately it ended up costing me because I touched the wall with my right front tire."TRISTAN VAUTIER (No. 77 Mazda Road to Indy/SSM with Curb-Agajanian): "The car was fantastic. I built a one and a half second lead but had some trouble with lapped traffic when I came up on it. Esteban caught me and I accidentally squeezed him. I got a drive thru for that. My car was so great that I was able to get back on the lead lap and make a late pass for P-4, which was great. It's disappointing when we had such a dominant race going."VICTOR CARBONE (No. 3 Mav TV/Nevoni/SSM with Curb-Agajanian): "Our start wasn't great, I fell back to sixth or something like that and I just didn't have the pace to be honest at the beginning of the race. I just saw the guys in front of me, Gus and his teammate, the Andretti car was struggling a little bit with the handling of the car so I just took my time. I just waited a little bit because my car was handling pretty good, so I just waited a little bit and started to pick one by one, made it around Gus when we went through traffic so I was up to second, but then I just, I don't know we were missing a little bit somewhere. When I was behind Tristan he opened up, so yeah it was a good race.[On gaining in the point standings] That's why I wanted to finish in front of Gus, but yeah it's just being consistent and bringing it home as much as I can and for most of the time I have done that. So just try to build up from here on."GUSTAVO YACAMAN (No. 2 TMR-Tuvacol-Xtreme Coil Drilling): "The yellow didn't help me, I had gained two seconds the previous lap and I got held up by traffic. His car wasn't too good when he got into that big pack, my car was so, you know, lucky break for him. By the time the restart came, honestly it's just too late for me. I normally go to bed at 11, it's past my curfew. I mean I just, my mistake on the restart. He just got going by the middle of the straight and by the back straight he was nowhere to be seen. You know, still happy to bring him a second place, two years in a row not too bad. We made up some good points on Sebastian and Tristan, so yeah, I tried to get back in the championship standings.JORGE GONCALVEZ (NO. 4 Belardi Auto Racing): "I really have to say thank you to the team. We really improved since practice and qualifying. I only lost a couple positions on the start...I wanted to feel the car out because it was so different tonight than it was this morning. Right now I'm pretty happy because I finished the race! There have been too many races I haven't finished lately and I think tonight we did a really, really good job. I went down to P13 and finished P6, so I'm pretty happy. We will keep working hard [to prepare] for Toronto."MIKE LARRISON (NO. 19 Belardi-TruFuel-Royal Oak Charcoal): "Tonight was really about finishing the race, not tearing anything up and building our confidence back up. The car didn't have a lot of straightaway speed, but we finished! We turned all the laps and got a lot of experience. Wouldn't be here without my team, so thanks so much to all of them."


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