Coyne talks about Buckman replacement

Team owner Dale Coyne spoke about changes to the team’s personnel following the injury suffered Friday by crew chief Chuck Buckman in a pit road accident.

DALE COYNE: “We had just picked up Gilbert Lage, who has been here a long time with Dick Simon and lots of teams in the past. He’s an experienced guy, so we were able to grab him and get him on that car. You know, we’ve got some depth. We’ve picked up some guys for the month here. It was an unfortunate situation with Chuck the other day, to lose a quality guy like that. But we’re working at it; we’re getting through it. On the one hand, the rain is bad. On the other hand, it’s enabled us to do a lot of things we weren’t sure we were going to have time to do on the cars. But at the end of the day, we need to be out on the track running."