IndyCar: Sunday Morning Update from Road America

The sun is shining this morning as the teams prepare for today’s Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America.  Temperatures are already in the 60s and should be around the mid 70s when the 55-lap race begins at 12:30 pm CT.

The NTT INDYCAR Series points leader, Alex Palou, and his teammate Scott Dixon, both had a bad Saturday on the newly resurfaced track.  Palou crashed in the morning practice on his own and Dixon tangled with Team Penske’s Will Power ten minutes later in the session, after spinning and trying to get back on track.

Not sure what you would call today’s polesitter day but Colton Herta came out on top after a few off track excursions.  How does he predict the race will run today?

” It is going to be physical, for sure. Like the carrousel already in qualifying is pretty heavy. Once you add two, three stints in the race, it’s not going to be that much fun for the first two laps.”

” If you have a tire that is going to deg highly, starting up front, you tend to try to make it work even if you don’t think it might be the fastest options. Guys in the back can dump two and change tires and get onto a better set.”

“It’s still unclear to me what tire is going to do what, to be honest. I think it could go either way where it could have massive amounts of deg or it could be very stable and very good.”

“I’m keeping both options open. Definitely have a better understanding after warmup, after we can run reds and the blacks for a longer period of time than just two laps.”

The warmup is at 9:15 am.

Lucille Dust reporting live from Road America