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Indy 500 Post-Race Quotes -- Sunday, May 25
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05-24-2003 11:00 PM |
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 Indy 500 Post-Race Quotes -- Sunday, May 25 MICHAEL ANDRETTI (No. 7 Team 7-Eleven Dallara/Honda/Firestone): "The throttle linkage broke. It was a weird deal. That always seems to happen to me. That is life. I'm a little disappointed. I'm happy and sad, a million different emotions right now. I'm happy that I'm retiring, knowing that I could have won the last race. I just wanted one lap this year, the last one. We didn't get it. It felt really good that we were running right up front for a while. It is a shame that it all went away. I'm a little numb right now, to be honest with you. I'm anxious to see what happens with the other three. It is weird right now. At least I have someone to cheer for. Maybe I haven't been meant to win this race as a driver. Maybe I'm meant to win 20 of them as an owner. We'll see." (Do you have a love-hate relationship with the Speedway): "I don't know what you want to call it. It has been an interesting one. I wouldn't say 'hate.' I don't hate. There are times when I've loved this place. There have been times when it has been tough. That is what makes Indy, Indy. We had a little too much downforce, but I was ready to trim it and go fast. We had a really good-handling car. I could run really tight on guys. I was really surprised I could run as quick as I was running, to be honest with you. I felt like we were going to be in good shape for the end. That is what is disappointing. At least I know I could have won my last race. I had a shot at it. That is the good thing. I really want to run this team. I really want to work on it. I don't really think I would do myself justice coming in and thinking I'm going to be competitive one race at a time. Not when I've been out of it for a year. These guys and teams are so good. You can't be as competitive as you need to be just running Indy. I think you are kidding yourself. Dan Wheldon is doing an awesome job. I'm proud of him. He is going to win a lot of races for us. We have great guys for the future. We are going to get Dario back in the car soon." (On the throttle problem): "I came out of one of the corners and just lost power. I was downshifting because I was passing somebody. When I got back on the throttle, it just didn't pull anymore. I couldn't even pull any revs. I think it is a freaky deal. We've never had that before. I don't know what caused it. We will figure it out later. You know what they say about this place. Maybe it was one screw that came loose. I was actually having fun out there when I was passing and battling for the lead."ROBBY GORDON (No. 27 Archipelago/Motorola Dallara/Honda/Firestone): "The Archipelago/Motorola car drove pretty good all day. It is just unfortunate we had the gearbox problem. We got behind early. We tried some different strategy and that kind of hurt us, and I drove conservative, which also hurt us. It was very difficult to pass out there. We had just gotten back into the top 12 and then we broke something in the gearbox. We had some trouble on our second to last pit stop and then we stalled it on the last pit stop so we had to drive through the field a couple of times. It would have been a lot easier to run 600 miles tonight at Charlotte with a better finish." Read Full Story 
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