Race No. 14
Texaco/Havoline 200
Elkhart Lake — Wisconsin
August 15 — August 17, 1997
Friday Quotes from drivers and managers at Road America:| Index of Quotes available | ||
|---|---|---|
| MARK BLUNDELL | PARTICK CARPENTIER | DARIO FRANCHITTI |
| MAURICIO GUGELMIN | GREG MOORE | MAX PAPIS |
| AL UNSER JR | ALEX ZANARDI | |
 | Forsythe Player's/Indeck Reynard Mercedes-Benz |
| GREG MOORE | |
| "We hardly have any laps with this car. (Moore ran his back-up carafter being in accident this morning). Since we lost our primary car, wejust put our test set-up on this car. We used this session as our practicesession. Now we know where we're at, and we can run hard tomorrow. The goodthing (about missing the morning practice session) is that now we have lotsof fresh tires to choose from the next two days." | |
 | Marlboro Penske Mercedes |
| AL UNSER, Jr. | |
| "The Mercedes-Benz is performing well. My tires are performingwell. We just need to work on getting the car through the corners." | |
 | PacWest Motorola Reynard Mercedes |
| MARK BLUNDELL | |
| "It was a very good session. I thought I had the pole there forawhile, but it got taken away just at the end. Fortunately, it was takenaway by my teammate, which is obviously much better than anybody else. I screwed up my last run, got blocked a bit. But, we're on thefront row overnight. We'll see if we can hang on to it tomorrow." | |
 | MCI Arciero Wells Reynard Toyota |
| MAX PAPIS | |
| "The track is different than when we tested here. We have a little more understeer now. I don't think we arefar from a good set-up. In general, the track has less grip. Ithink our set-up will work better on tomorrow's track. We also had amisfire at the beginning of the session so we lost some time there. [about contact with Moore's car who stalled on track] I am extremely disappointed, because we lost the carin an accident that should not have happened. There was no marshal,no yellow flag. When I saw Greg's car it was too late. I backed offand lost control of the car. It is very disappointing. It was anaccident that was absolutely avoidable." | |
 | Target Chip Ganassi Racing Reynard Honda |
| ALEX ZANARDI | |
| ""Because things have been going well for us lately, that doesn't mean that [the championship] is clinched. It doesn't mean that it's going to be easy. I keep doing my best and that is how I keep peace with myself. If I get out of this weekend with my best, I will be happy. I cannot control what other people are doing. I would love to win this championship, but all I can do is my best between now and the end of the season, without the arrogance of thinking that I have already beaten everybody." | |
 | Bettenhaused Racing Alumax Aluminium Reynard Mercedes-Benz |
| PATRICK CARPENTIER | |
| "It's a shame that we had the shunt after such a promising sessionthis morning. The car felt very good. I was following Paul Tracy who wasnot going as quick as I was at the time. He moved over a little and Ithought I had room to pass, and then all of a sudden there was no room. Ithought I was going to go into the woods. Fortunately, my crew had myback-up car ready and we got enough laps in to qualify. Now we'll try tomake that car run as well tomorrow as the primary car ran today." | |
 | Hollywood Reynard Mercedes |
| MAURICIO GUGELMIN | |
| "We've got a good basic set-up on the car. I didn't have a goodmorning session, and then during qualifying my telemetry and (electronic)dash went out, so I kept having to radio in and see what my time was. Wehave some understeer in the car, but we will take care of that. This isjust great for our team; to be fighting with my teammate for the pole. Markis right there and running fast as well." | |
 | Hogan Racing Reynard Mercedes |
| DARIO FRANCHITTI | |
| "We only had four timed laps this morning, and so we really workedhard on the car. We're working on the gearing and once we get the carbetter we can go faster tomorrow." | |