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Elkhart Lake, Wisc. (11 June 2022)<\/strong>\u00a0– Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud took on the longest circuit on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES calendar – 4.0-miles – for qualifying on Saturday at Road America.<\/p>\n Pagenaud will start 11th in the No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda while Castroneves will start 16th in the No. 06 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda for Sunday\u2019s Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America.<\/p>\n MSR came into the weekend with a strong record of success in qualifying at Road America having qualified on the front row in 2020 and third in 2021. Working through a range of setup adjustments in practice on Friday and finding additional pace on Saturday morning during Practice 2, both MSR machines were tuned for qualifying.<\/p>\n Castroneves unfortunately just missed out on transferring out of the first round after posting a 1:45.621-second lap,\u00a0 which was just one-tenth shy of the cutoff. Castroneves was locked in at 16th for Sunday’s race.<\/p>\n The Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America will have live broadcast coverage on NBC starting at 12:00pm ET with the green flag set for 12:45pm ET. SiriusXM will also host live IndyCar radio coverage on XM Ch. 160.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Driver Quotes:<\/p>\n Simon Pagenaud:\u00a0<\/strong> Helio Castroneves:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elkhart Lake, Wisc. (11 June 2022)\u00a0– Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud took on the longest circuit on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/a33ba08d163385b4a77fabf6c\/images\/178e31fa-3427-0f44-66b8-ec48b372bd9f.jpg\")
Pagenaud had a strong qualifying run, advancing from the first Group and into the Top 12 for the second race in a row\u00a0for MSR. With rain threatening, the field took to the track for the 10 minute Top 12 session, with Pagenaud setting several promising laps on the way to carding a quick time of 1:45.275-seconds to secure a sixth\u00a0row start for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
\n“We’ve made big improvements all weekend and we managed to get into the fast 12, which I’m really happy about. I think the whole group at Meyer Shank racing did a great job to be in the fast 12. I’m surely going to find four hundredths of a second on the data that would have put us P8, but honestly P8 to P11 is where we have stacked up this weekend. There’s a big game on tire degradation this weekend, and we don’t know yet which tire will be best in the race and that’s really where we are at this point. I don’t think the starting position really matters too much because we’ll see a big game on tire choice tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
\n“The car\u00a0was pretty decent this morning, but when it came to qualifying, the car started to have some understeer on the reds. Unfortunately, on such a long track if you miss it just a tiny bit, that’s it. We missed it by literally a tenth (of a second) to be in the top six of our group. At the end of the day, we’re going to fight to do everything we can for the AutoNation \/ SiriusXM\u00a0machine to get up to the front.”<\/p>\n