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A busy first day on track featured just one practice session before qualifying midday. Teams had a\u00a0short 30-minute turn around following qualifying to prep the cars for final practice to close out the day.\nThe team felt good a<\/p>\n
Fort Worth, TX (1 April 2023) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Helio Castroneves (No. 06 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) and Simon Pagenaud (No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) will start 21st and 22nd respectively on Sunday after\u00a0qualifying for the PPG 375 at Texas Motor Speedway (12:15pm ET, NBC, SiriusXM Ch. 160).<\/p>\n
A busy first day on track featured just one practice session before qualifying midday. Teams had a\u00a0short 30-minute turn around following qualifying to prep the cars for final practice to close out the day.
\nThe team felt good a<\/p>\n
fter Saturday\u2019s opening hour of practice, putting both cars in the top 17, but the Ohio-based squad was unable repeat the result over two qualifying laps around the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway oval.<\/p>\n
Pagenaud was first of the MSR drivers to qualify – third in the order – and was hoping that an earlier run and cooler temperatures would pose an advantage. Simon\u2019s run yielded an average speed of 218.103 mph which puts him 22nd for tomorrow race.<\/p>\n
Castroneves went out sixth in the qualifying order and posted a 218.196 mph lap which puts him 21st for tomorrow\u2019s 250 lap race.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s PPG 375 at Texas Motor Speedway\u00a0will air on NBC on Sunday starting at Noon ET. SiriusXM will also host live IndyCar Radio coverage of both sessions on XM Ch. 160.<\/p>\n
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Driver Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n Helio Castroneves (No. 06 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) – Starting 21<\/strong>st<\/sup><\/strong>, Two-Lap Avg. Speed 218.196mph: <\/strong>\u201cThe car felt pretty much the same as it did this morning, obviously the lap time is a little different because we had drafting during practice. Balance-wise, the cars felt good, but we just weren\u2019t fast enough. We\u2019ll get ready for tomorrow and see how it goes in the race.\u201d Fort Worth, TX (1 April 2023) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Helio Castroneves (No. 06 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) and Simon Pagenaud (No. 60 AutoNation [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","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=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSimon Pagenaud (No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Honda) – Starting 22<\/strong>nd<\/sup><\/strong>, Two-Lap Avg. Speed 218.103mph: <\/strong>\u201cThe car felt good and the team did a great job making it handle really good in the corners. But we don\u2019t know why just yet we didn\u2019t pick up the speed in the car, but we will look into it and to understand what was going on. It\u2019s a shame because the team did a great job preparing the car, but we\u2019ll work hard and be ready for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"