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May 16 – Indy 500 Practice

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SPEEDWAY, Ind. (May 16, 2017) – Indy 500 Practice Daily Report

Position Driver Fast Lap Total Laps
1 Will Power 224.656 mph 71
9 JR Hildebrand 223.352 mph 84
11 Ed Carpenter 222.842 mph 82

ED CARPENTER, NO. 20 FUZZY’S ULTRA PREMIUM VODKA CHEVROLET: “It’s been mostly good, yesterday went exactly like we scripted it. Today, we had a few issues we had to deal with. Even with that being said, I’m still happy with the car. Everyone probably got a little over-excited about the speed charts yesterday, but I think we’re better than what they showed today. We’re just working through our program. We had a really good long run at the end today on a full tank, which is what we were missing yesterday. We’ve got a few gremlins to work on, but we’re doing okay.You have to look ahead at the weather. You’d look pretty silly if you didn’t get enough work done early in the week and had a bunch of tires left over while sitting in the rain. We’re trying to manage our tires to a point where we’ll be okay if we need to run those days where it looks like there might be heavy rain, but at the same time, we’re making sure we get as much work done now in anticipation of the forecasted weather.”

JR HILDEBRAND, NO. 21 PREFERRED FREEZER SERVICES CHEVROLET: “Today, I felt really good. We did a lot of running and made a lot of progress. The conditions got tricky and it will continue to get windy and stay hot the next couple days. I think our goal as a team is to feel really good about our car in poor conditions and if we can do that then we will be feeling good when conditions get better, if they do, and if they don’t at least we are prepared for it on race day. We work together well and continue to get through our intended program so for Day 2, I’m pretty happy.”

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