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Indy 500 Practice Quotes -- Friday, May 9
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05-08-2003 11:00 PM |
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 Indy 500 Practice Quotes -- Friday, May 9 ARIE LUYENDYK (No. 20 Meijer Mo Nunn Racing Panoz G Force/Toyota/Firestone): "I'm hurting between the shoulder blades pretty bad right now. But fortunately, nothing is broken; no fractures, cracks, nothing. So that's the good news. The bad thing is I have to walk around with my arms folded to keep from hurting as much. My status is day-to-day. There's no telling when I'm going to be cleared to drive. The doctor says it's totally up to me, when I feel absolutely comfortable doing what I have to do to drive my Meijer race car. It's strange, what happened. I've had much harder crashes where I didn't get hurt at all. I wasn't pushing the car too hard at the time. We finally got the car to where it was balanced just right through (Turns) 3 and 4, and I came by and swapped ends in (Turn) 1. I was planning to go around one more time before really standing on the gas. But I didn't get that far, did I? The car was set up in a way where maybe it was too tricky for the conditions, which are different than they have been all week. We'll see how I feel tomorrow and work with Dr. Bock on deciding when it makes sense to get back into the car. There's no sense getting back into the car if I'm hurt to the point where it is going to affect my driving. You have to be smart, first and foremost. It's really disappointing because I think we cured one of the bigger problems we had all through the week, but we never got a chance to see for sure. I'll be back in the car sooner or later, though. This is too much fun."SHINJI NAKANO (No. 54 Beard Papa's Dallara/Honda/Firestone): "It was our first day on the track, and since we were only able to get about 40 laps in, I wasn't able to learn too much. We had a couple of unusual mechanical delays that kept us in the garage a lot more than we planned on. Even so, it was very good to finally get the car out there and start the process of learning the track and finding the right setup. I'm sure tomorrow will be a much better day for us." Read Full Story 
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