CHEVROLET RACING IN THE VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES
KOHLER GRAND PRIX
ROAD AMERICA (ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN)
TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUALIFYING QUOTES
FRIDAY, JUNE 25`, 2016

WILL POWER, NO. 12 VERIZON TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, POLE WINNER: “It was a session of all traffic. Every single run I had was traffic. Took a risk in the second round and got through on used tires and that gave us the best shot at the pole because (Scott) Dixon has been very quick. I am really excited to get pole, I really am. Been kind of a rough start of the year for us, but we are firing on all cylinders now. A lot of guys used new tires on every run, and we were the only one on used. I really had to lay it out. We are going to do everything we can to win this damn race. That is what we have to do.”

SCOTT DIXON, NO. 9 CLORAX CHIP GANASSI RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 2nd: “I think there were just too many mistakes made to get the pole. We definitely had the car for the pole. I messed up the last two corners in the Clorox car, which in turn costs us 2-1/2 tenths and ultimately the pole position today here at Road America. There is massive fan support here, it’s great to be back and I hope we put on a good show for the fans tomorrow.”

TONY KANAAN, NO. 10 NTT DATA CHIP GANASSI RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 3rd: “We’ve done really well here all weekend until the Firestone Fast 6. We left the pits after sitting with the rest of the field and waiting to go out and almost immediately my steering wheel just completely froze. We were trying to figure out what we needed to do, but because we didn’t go out right away we were really running out of time. That’s the price you pay when you run those strategies and then run into issues like those. We finally got it figured out when I was in Turn 12 on my out lap, but at that point I could only get in one more lap. Thankfully we were able to get the No. 10 NTT DATA Chevrolet up to third. Obviously we’d like to be on the pole, but with only having one full lap out and that electrical issue I’m happy with where we were able to qualify.”
SIMON PAGENAUD, NO. 22 MENARDS TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 4th: “It was all right. The Menards car is actually very good around the track. It was awesome. I thought this track was beautiful. It’s great to be back here. The fans are really amazing, and I’m just very excited, I think, for IndyCar. This is a great opportunity. The campers — we’re sitting here in the bus, and it’s amazing to see the traffic at night. It’s a good sign, I guess.”
HELIO CASTRONEVES, NO. 3 HITACHI TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 5th: “We really did a lot of projects out there with our setups to be honest, but in the end I was able to follow a little bit from my teammates and ended up working pretty well. The Hitachi car was good. We had a good pace, and we made some adjustments on the last pit stop — I’m sorry, on the last qualifying, and I’m not sure if it was the right direction or not. Obviously Will (Power) having the new tires there, probably it would be very difficult to reproduce the same time that he did. Well done, Team Penske; yet another great performance for the entire team. Shame Juan Pablo is not there, but tomorrow is a big race, and looking forward to the race tomorrow.”

MAX CHILTON, NO. 8 GALLAGHER CHIP GANASSI RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 7th: Gallagher and the Ganassi team gave me a great car for this weekend here at Road America. I was on my hot lap in the second segment of qualifying and Power came out in the pits in front of me. I followed him out through turns 5-6-7 and then into the carousel turn. I was four car lengths back and just had to keep lifting and lifting. The stewards reviewed it and didn’t take any action which I just find maddening.”
CHARLIE KIMBALL, NO. 83 TRESIBA CHIP GANASSI RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 11TH: “I can’t say that I’m happy with 11th, but I’m pleased with the improvement. I think it shows how much we improved with the simple fact that we’re eight spots better than we’ve been all weekend in any session and just finishing up qualifying when it counts. The Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing guys stayed with me and kept working on the car and working on me. We got lucky with the yellow in the first session, but we’d done the lap time when we needed to and that really played well for making it into the next segment. We’ll keep an eye on the weather and see if it’s going to be wet in the warmup tomorrow, but we’ll go from there and see what we want to do in the race as far as the alternate and primary Firestones. We really need to decide which one is going to last. I know 50 laps doesn’t sound like much, but around here that’s still 200 miles.”
SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS, NO. 11 TEAM HYDROXYCUT-KVSH RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 12th: “The car is really good. The Hydroxycut machine was on it. Unfortunately, we have been dealing with some brake issues. We were four tenths up on our fastest lap this morning, but the car is pulling right and it is locking the left front. That is an interesting combination. We had a different problem this morning, but it was along the same lines. We keep throwing new stuff on it, but it just won’t fix it. It’s really frustrating. The Hydroxycut – KVSH Racing guys have done a great job. The car was really strong. It is just tough to turn left when the car pulls right. We’ll work on it tonight and in the warm up tomorrow and see what we can come up with for the race.”
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, NO. 2 DEVILBLISS TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 14th: ”
“The DeVilbiss Chevy ran well in qualifying. We’re happy with it and as far as tomorrow’s race, we don’t feel like we need to make any changes. In practice earlier this morning, we had a mechanical issue, but we felt good about the the car yesterday and we still feel good about it today.”
SPENCER PIGOT, NO. 20 FUZZY’S ULTRA PREMIUM VODKA ED CARPENTER RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 17th: “Qualifying was tough. I’m still trying to get used to the red tires, there’s so much more grip available and I need to learn how best to maximize a lap. We had two runs on red and made some changes after the first one. We may hay have went too far the other way, but overall it was okay. I think we have some good data to look over from Josef and we can see where we can get better tomorrow

JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 21 DIRECT SUPPLY ED CARPENTER RACING CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 20th: “I made a mistake. I feel pretty silly for doing it, but that happens sometimes. You’re pushing pretty hard in these racecars, you’re going to overstep sometimes and that’s what I did right there. I got a little bit wide and got too greedy. I had a really good lap going, the car was fast and I wanted to go for it. I probably should have thought a little better about it being Round 1, you don’t really have to push that hard until the Fast 6. I was just ready to be on it and try and make something happen. The Direct Supply car should be fast tomorrow, we’ll come back, regroup and try to put the car up as high as we can.”