We’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out, but before the race starts here are 4 predictions for The Combat Wounded Coalition 400 at the Brickyard.
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You can listen to the race on the Motor Racing Network. I am not particularly anxious about storms during the race on Sunday but the radar will need to be watched. He wants to race, but he also knows that the regimen they have him on will get him right for a long time. I’m not amped up, or anything like that.
“So, today I feel more relaxed and comfortable in the vehicle”. “But when I knew it was Indianapolis, I didn’t think twice about it”.
Harvick got a rare start in the No. 88 Chevrolet Saturday afternoon at Indianapolis.
Stewart quickly emerged as one of the series’ bright, young faces by winning the 1997 series championship.
Ryan Newman will start sixth in the Brickyard looking for his second win at IMS.
Stewart, an IN native and two-time victor of the Brickyard 400, is retiring at the end of the 2016 season.
“I get that text and I looked at her and said ‘Oh boy”. He said he once overheated at a race at Richmond when cool air that was blowing into his helmet turned hot. Everybody wants to win here. It helps me mentally try to win that battle.
“Jeff has always been so well supported by the fans at this race track”, adds Jimmie Johnson.
His answers sounded like a throwback to his early IndyCar days when he routinely responded to questions about track conditions or just about anything else at Indy with a nonchalant answer about throwing dirt on the track. I’m not doing all the sentimental crying stuff that you guys think I’m going to be doing.
Stewart said he might consider driving in relief next season if the opportunity arose.
But concussion-like symptoms have forced Dale Earnhardt Jr. out of the No. 88 Chevrolet and simultaneously pressed Gordon into unexpected service. While his friends are disappointed that Stewart doesn’t have the stage to himself, Stewart embraces it. But the Sprint Cup pole that completed the Saturday sweep was special, because it was the first for Busch at the vaunted Brickyard.
The Joe Gibbs Racing star held off two former Brickyard 400 winners and one, Harvick, couldn’t even catch the leader after taking new tires during the final caution period, which extended the race to 63 laps.
Hendrick said his driver seemed “sharp” on Wednesday but also admitted that the condition has temporarily shelved any talks of the two working out a contract extension beyond the one that ends in 2017.
Gordon is the only driver to start all 22 Brickyard 400 races and has won the event a record five times including the inaugural race in 1994 with the fifth victory coming in 2014. But he is going to do what they say. “Tomorrow’s challenge is going to be being around traffic, and also trying to get the balance of the auto right and do that when you’re by yourself as well as when you’re around other cars”.
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“I was happy with my lap”, Edwards said.
