Levitt / Motorsport Imagesĭespite starting from the eighth row of the grid, Andretti believes he has a much stronger race car than he was able to show in qualifying and can make progress towards the front in the 200-lap event. Marco Andretti, Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco & Curb-Agajanian Honda, Mario Andretti, Eric Bretzman I think adding the downforce made that snake on the straightaway that you see even closer.” ![]() “I'm not sure what is actually causing that, but I think to be honest, the new aero rules just allow that snake to be even closer, so when you get the runs on people, you pop into clean air and drag, and the car you're trying to pass has a 20-car draft, so he beats you to the corner. “It's pretty tough to pass three or four back. “It's become more of a track position race in the past five years,” Andretti added. Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport ImagesĪndretti echoed what Team Penske’s Will Power said on Monday about expecting “very fierce” racing from this year’s new aero package, because the 10 per cent extra downforce is allowing cars to run closer together in the pack without it being any easier to pass the car in front if you’re following a train of cars. Marco Andretti, Andretti Herta w/ Marco & Curb-Agajanian Honda “So, I think from the looks of it, I only saw it from sitting in the race car, it looked like she just got caught out by how slow they were going.” ![]() ![]() I was way on the brakes, and I couldn't believe how slow they were going. “It was in my mirror, but what's funny, before that happened – not funny – but literally a lap before that happened, we were in this string of cars, and I'm like, I can't believe how slow the pack is going,” he said.
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