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VISION RACING QUALIFIES AT INFINEON RACEWAY FOR INDY GRAND PRIX OF SONOMA COUNTY SONOMA, Calif. - Vision Racing drivers Ed Carpenter and A.J. Foyt IV will start from the 23rd and 24th positions, respectively, tomorrow afternoon at Infineon ...
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VISION RACING QUALIFIES AT INFINEON RACEWAY FOR INDY GRAND PRIX OF SONOMA COUNTY
SONOMA, Calif. - Vision Racing drivers Ed Carpenter and A.J. Foyt IV will start from the 23rd and 24th positions, respectively, tomorrow afternoon at Infineon Raceway for the PEAK Motor Oil & Antifreeze Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma County.
Carpenter's best lap in the No. 20 Menards/Vision Racing Honda/Dallara/Firestone machine for qualifying came in at a time of 1:18.4034 and an average speed of 105.745 mph.
In his first attempt at Infineon Raceway in 2005, Carpenter started 20th and finished 15th with Vision Racing. In 2006 season he started 16th and finished 12th and last year he started the race from the 14th spot, ran as high as 12th and ultimately finished 13th. He has run at the finish in all three attempts at Infineon.
Carpenter will be battling for his eighth finish in the top-10 this weekend and looking for a chance to move up in the championship driver point standings where he current stand in the 11th spot with 282 points.
Driving the No. 2 Lilly Diabetes/Vision Racing Honda powered Dallara Foyt's top lap time in qualifying came in at 1:18.3715 and an average speed of 105.788 mph.
Foyt started 15th on the grid in his first start at Infineon Raceway last season and was running 14th on lap 73 when Scott Sharp drove underneath him in turn 11 and then spun out in front of him, causing Foyt to crash. He finished in the 15th spot.
He will be looking to capture his fourth top-10 finish of the year in the No. 2 Lilly Diabetes/Vision Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone. He is currently 19th in the driver point standings with 231 points.
Fellow partners Lilly and CardioChek will also join the team at Infineon Raceway for the Vision Racing Wellness Tour, which allows race fans to stop by a an opportunity to receive free cholesterol screenings and diabetes education. The complimentary cholesterol screenings and diabetes information will be made available at the track on Sunday, Aug. 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the IndyCar merchandise tent. In addition, Carpenter Foyt will be at the Wellness Tour location starting at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday for media interviews and autographs for those fans being screened.
The IndyCar Series will hold a morning warm-up practice session tomorrow morning 9:45 a.m. PT.
A.J. Foyt IV - No. 2 Lilly Diabetes/Vision Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone
On qualifying: "It was kind of a messed up qualifying with two yellows and it left us just one set of tires and five (5) laps. We did a pretty decent lap compared to what we had been doing in practice. It was just a tenth off our best lap all weekend. Maybe if we had had a little more time out there, we might have improved our time even more, but it was also bad luck for us to fall into the tougher qualifying group too."
Ed Carpenter - No. 20 Menards/Vision Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone
On qualifying: "I'm not exactly happy with qualifying. I was just a little bit better than this morning, but in the overall ranking I actually dropped positions so that's disappointing. The track changed a little bit and I felt like that some of the changes we made ended up being opposite of what the track ended up doing. We'll chalk that up as a new experience. It's still been a good weekend for us as we have gone faster, but with the positive way things were going, I really thought I would be able to put the Menards car and the team in a better qualifying position than I did. That's the part that is disappointing."
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