Saturday Notebook from Indy

The rookie drivers during the morning meet and greet session

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The rookies met the press this morning. Some highlights – Jaime Camara thanks Enrique Bernoldi for helping him get the Indy Car ride with Conquest…..In turn Bernoldi thanked Camara for helping him with the ovals (Bernoldi came from European road racing)….Will Power said he was impressed by the enormity of the Indy 500 event….Graham Rahal said he was glad to be here and you don't realize how difficult this race is until you do it…..Oriol Servia said it takes a lot of energy to go out there every day and perform and still meet all your PR commitments. It's a special race…..Justin Wilson said running the oval here in an IndyCar is totally different than when he drove an F1 car here. "It's good to be running in the right direction here (vs. clockwise for the F1 cars)."……EJ Viso said he wants to stay out of trouble and they put a conservative setup on his car………Mario Moraes said he wishes they had less rain during the month so they could have had more time to set up their car. Mark Cipolloni reporting from Indy