| CHEVROLET RACING IN NTT INDYCAR SERIES GMR GRAND PRIX INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE TEAM CHEVY POST-RACE QUOTE MAY 14, 2022 |
| Power Grabs Points Lead After Crazy Day at IndianapolisTeam Penske driver leads Team Chevy with third at GMR Grand PrixINDIANAPOLIS (May 14, 2022) – Team Penske’s Will Power may not have turned his Friday pole position into a victory, but his third-place finish in Saturday’s GMR Grand Prix moved the driver of the No. 12 Verizon 5G Chevrolet into the championship lead of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES heading into the Indianapolis 500. Power was the highest-finishing Chevrolet driver in a wild, wet and wacky rain-shortened race around the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. The event ran 75 of the scheduled 85 laps and featured eight full-course caution periods. Power led a group of four Team Chevy drivers to finish in the top-10 Saturday: · Fifth: Conor Daly, No. 20 BitNile Chevrolet, Ed Carpenter Racing· Sixth: Felix Rosenqvist, No. 7 McLaren Vuse Chevrolet, Arrow McLaren SP· Seventh: Callum Ilott, No. 77 Dynamic Edge Chevrolet, Juncos Hollinger Racing Colton Herta (Honda) was the race winner. The next race for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES is the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 29. TEAM CHEVY QUOTEWILL POWER, NO. 12 VERIZON 5G CHEVROLET, TEAM PENSKE – FINISHED THIRD: “Cars were dropping like flies! It was such a hard choice on whether to get the slicks, which could have been the best strategy out there – or go for the wets. It’s so crazy, this place. When you look around, it can be completely raining on the frontstretch and you go around to the back and it’s completely dry. It was really anyone’s guess at what was going to happen. We got to the point where it was too wet, we were going to get caught out and we needed to take wets.”MORE ON TIRE CHOICES: “This is an Indianapolis-type day! I’ve had races here where we’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for it to rain, and it just doesn’t rain. The cell just stops there. There must be some kind of vortex in the Speedway here that just doesn’t allow weather!” |