Bob Pockrass
Fox Motorsports Insider
Indianapolis – Kyle Larson certainly did not intend to crash the Indianapolis 500 tests, but reaching the Thorsday wall had a benefit in his opinion.
“You hate to tear a really exensive car, but the same point, I am happy to get out of the way and did not feel too different, too different from hitting the wall in a similar way in Nascar,” said Larson Day Medic.
“I obviously know that there could be a lot of shipwrecks that in Indy, but I am happy that he did not feel about Bath Bath.”
The accident occurred in its first full round, reaching the duration of the speed of the session on Thursday morning, which included an additional impulse in the engines that the equipment would use for the qualification.
Larson, who did not have a leg in an Indycar for about 11 months since 2024 Indianapolis 500, said it was fine; He said he made sure to take off his steering wheel.
“He simply felt normal. I guess,” Larson said on the impact. “I had never hit the wall in Indycar before, so I knew I was going to hit the wall, I thought:” Man, okay, here we are going. We will see if you feel much worse than hitting the wall in Nascar. “
“But he felt very similar. But again, there are bigger clashes here than what he was. So I know I could hurt much more than it was.”
Larson had admitted one day before he felt a bit rusty and then in the wreck, the car was tight, which means that the front won turn and heads towards the wall.
Larson is not a driver who loves to run the rounds simulated in a simulator, regardless of racing car. And with the two days of testing this week and six days of practice next month at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I wanted to return to an Indycar trip for the first time in 11 months with the work prior to the preparation well.
“In general, I felt comfortable,” Larson said after running 102 laps on Wednesday on the first day of the two -day test. “But [I’m] Still a little rusty in things, small details, buttons and trypy blows so that the board configuration is really adjusted to where it processes quickly for my eyes and brain and small details like that.
“It was good to get all that out of the way.”
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That sour end for a wonderful month has motivated Larson to complete the experience he never got a year ago. He entered the two -day open test with greater confidence when he entered the McLaren of Arrow that has support from his Nascar Hendrick Motorsports team.
“I just have a little less anxiety … or what to expect,” Larson said. “I still think there were definitely things that I did not know completely. It is a slightly different car with the hybrid system, so there were things that I didn’t know.”
Indycar gets used to a hybrid engine in the mid -last season. The pilots press a button to increase the hybrid and do it often through the race.
Larson did not believe that being in a simulator would have helped him with that.
“Maybe if I got into the SIM, the buttons and everything that a leg a little more Asier would have for the child or configure the way he wanted, but you have enough time here that it really does not seem necessary,” Larson said. “The General Sim, the automobile balance for oval staff, is not related to real life. Many times you can fool you there. Even on Nascar’s side, I am not really the SIM.”
He obtained the filling of learning the balance of his car in just one day of testing on Wednesday, since Larson spent about three hours in a relatively close car pack.
“For the month of May, when you come here, everyone becomes a larger package and things, where today, it was as if they were all in a package,” Larson said how the open test this three -week week.
“So your son of having that your mentality accelerates a little faster than I guess I expected.”
Larson came to this test with greater confidence, said his main engineer, Mike Pawlowski.
“As for the comparison for last year, it is different from night and day,” said Pawlowski. “It’s much more comfortable in the car. You know what we are talking about in terms of car systems.
“With the new changes in the car for this year with a hybrid, we had to learn that. We do through a learning curve for that. But he is more than now, so that is good. We did many tasks today.”
In the second year of a two -year planned attempt in double, Larson admitted that he did not know if he would do it again, at least while running in full time.
“In my head, yes, I am thinking that at least it is at the moment, in the near future, the end Indy 500,” Larson said. “But I’m still young, and … maybe one day when I am not a full time cup and I can really dedicate my whole mind to Indy, I would like to do it again.”
Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. Decades have passed engine sports, including more than 30 Daytona 500s, with periods in ESPN, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobpock.
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