CHEVROLET RACING IN THE VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES
GRAND PRIX AT THE GLEN
WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL
TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUALIFYING QUOTES
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
SCOTT DIXON, NO. 9 TARGET CHIP GANASSI RACING CHEVROLET, won the pole for Sunday’s Grand Prix of the Glen with a track record lap of one minute, 22.5259 seconds/147.008 MPH. It is the second pole of the season for the reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion, and the 25th of his career. Dixon, who bested the previous track record set in 2009 by more than 5.6 seconds/9.351 MPH, led an all-Chevrolet Aero Kit with integrated 2.2 liter V6 engine Firestone Fast Six.
ON HIS QUALIFYING EFFORT: “I’ve got to thank the whole Target crew, the car rolled off extremely fast. We’ve been at the top of the time sheets, at least a good percentage of them this weekend. We’ve had a bit of a rough year, so it is nice to come back here and perform like this. Tomorrow is going to be a heck of a race. Hopefully we can keep this No. 9 Target Chevrolet up front.”
ON ALMOST NOT TRANSFERRING TO FIRESTONE FAST SIX: “I made a couple of mistakes and we had a bit of a miss-shift thing going on especially on the backstretch. That last lap there I had actually lost three tenths. The speed was kind of there but it didn’t hang on as well as we would have hoped. With these cool conditions, we thought the reds were going to be good. Just happy we scraped through on that one. There was definitely a lot of chaos during qualifying with people getting pulled back out of the group that they had transferred into.
“It was hairy man. It was definitely one of those sessions, and seems like we’ve had that a little bit this year. We had that in Toronto as well in group one and two. Group two was a nail biter for us. We had a bit of a miss-shift going on out of one and lost about three tenths on the back straight and I thought we were really going to miss it. It was a crazy session for all with people getting tossed out and stuff. I can’t say thank you enough to Team Target, Verizon, everybody in this series. It has been a great weekend so far. Thank you to everybody at The Glen for having us back. And everyone in IndyCar made this happen. I hope we can comeback many more times.”
Will Power, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, qualified 2nd; Sebastien Bourdais, No. 11 Team Hydroxycut KVSH Racing Chevrolet qualified 3rd; Helio Castroneves, No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet, qualified 4th; Tony Kanaan, No. 10 NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet, qualified 5th and Max Chilton, No. 8 Gallagher Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet, qualified 6th.