Kyle Larson shrugs off Friday crash, qualifies 21st for Indy 500

Indianapolis – All fans need to know about Kyle Larson and how will handle the second attempt to run 1,100 miles in one day is how he handled two recent remains while preparing for the Indianapolis 500.

“You see me collide all the time,” Larson said on Friday after his second accident of his Indianapolis 500 car in the last three weeks. “I don’t think it affects me.”

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Crasar a car? That is easy to roll from his back.

“I try to look at the positive aspects,” Larson said. “I don’t want to block, but I blocked.

“I learned a lot. I am sure that the team will see the data and learn a lot from them, my teammates too.”

For the relaxed Larson, The Double is another challenge as part of a race race that includes a Cup title and 32 wins in the Nascar Superior Series, as well as several victories in the events of Sprint-Car and Dirt models.

Few doubt their ability to become the second pilot to complete 1,100 miles in the largest sport event and one of Nascar’s most famous races. Only Tony Stewart, in 2001, completed all the miles to finish sixth in Indy and third in Charlotte.

But for a driver, just experiencing INDY 500 can be an experience too desired. Not for Larson. He compared it with, or all things, becoming a father.

“Many times people stress without any reason here with the Speedway and I like it,” this is the craziest race in the world and this is the wildest in your life, and the qualification and this and that, “said Larson.” And you are like, “S — Maybe it’s crazy.”

“But after you get to do it, it’s just normal. Everybody set the expectations Like it was Going to Be Wild, and nothing was too wild just scholause I was Expecting Everything to Be Crazy. Like, “It’s Like,” It’s Like, “It’s,” It’s Like, It’s, “It’s Like,” It’s Like, “It’s Like,” It’s Like, “It’s Like,” It’s as, “It’s like”, it’s like “, it’s like” It’s like, “It’s like Hody”, it’s like, “it’s”, it’s as Hody As Hody, it is, “it’s like it is as it is ashody,” it’s like Hody, it’s. “” Itbody “,” and then, when you have your baby, it’s like, “Oh, this is normal.”

Larson will begin on the 21st at Indianapolis 500 on May 25 after a classification day on Saturday, where his first career put him dangerously close to not locking himself in the event. It will go to North Carolina on Sunday morning to compete in Nascar All-Star career in North Wilkesboro (NC) Speedway.

While the top 12 on the opening day of the qualification competes on Sunday for the Pole (Larson did it last year, anyway from fifth place in 500), I was still happy after a difficult Friday.

“We are in the race,” Larson said on Saturday. “After the first race, I was a bit nervous, it would be one of the boys fighting for the final places … it was a little less comfortable than I felt last year that I felt in the qualification. I felt quite balanced.

“With the balance comes a little lack of speed, but I did not block myself, and that was an advantage.”

The leader of points of the Nascar Cup series, Larson acknowledges that this will be his last attempt for a while to double. A monumental logistics effort is needed and its only Indycar began in 500 last year, where it saw a potential ending of the 10 top 10 cleaned by a penalty for speeding on the road and finished 18º.

When he completed the Indy 500 delayed rain, Coca-Cola 600 had already begun. Larson arrived in Charlotte as quickly as possible, but the rain came with him and the 600 ended with a rain event. Larson never climbed into his cup car, which was driven by Justin Allgaier.

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“Kyle is a real runner,” said Kanaan, a former Indy 500 winner whose organization walks the Auto Indy 500 of Larson in association with Hendrick. “I don’t think I need to sit here and talk about their qualities because I think the results are everything.

“But Kyle’s biggest advantage is that she adapts quite fast because everything runs. He complains much less than all of us … the first two days [of Indy practice, he says]”The car is fine, the car is fine.” You can see that engineers look a bit like “Whoa, it can’t be fine.”

Canaan realized that he was fine when he got into the car on Thursday to do a few laps in case Larson has to leave Indianapolis because or the weather to get to Charlotte.

Larson and Kanaan were teammates to win the Rolex 24 2015 in Daytona, and Kanaan hopes Larson will thrive.

“I was already surprised there when I was quite young. Without history of the road course, he entered with me and [Scott] Dixon there, he ran the same times back in the race, “said Canaan.” Thank God he is in Nascar, not in Indycar. “

Larson is still a rookie in Indycar, and the biggest difference in the car is the hybrid system, which adds about 100 pounds to the rear of the car. It has made the car more difficult to drive and more nervous. Larson has destroyed twice while I was in a qualification settings, once in the Indy 500 test a few weeks ago and then Friday in practice.

“When you upload the impulse for your speed return, it is usually like” Oh, my God. “You’re flying,” Larson said on the wreck when turning about approximately 215-220 mph. “But that did not feel as crazy as the open test when I felt it when I raised it for the first time.

“So I am happy that the speed would not scare me or anything like that. As long as the car is fine, we will be fine.”

The team had the fixed car and Larson was ready for classification on Saturday.

Larson takes it easy and said he feels as excited this year as he did last year.

“He doesn’t feel like work,” Larson said. “It’s the same. It doesn’t get too excited about anything. It simply seems normal, like another career week.”

But there seems to be a bit of difference. While the center of attention is still there, everyone is more accustomed to seeing Larson in Indianapolis.

“I feel that last year because it was the first time, I feel that I did a very good bar to take everything and spend time signing each autograph and doing all the rookie things I had to do,” Larson said.

“This year seems a bit quieter. But it is still much bigger than any other event that can run.”

So can’t add pressure? At least for the legacy of a pilot considered one of the great current corridors worldwide?

“Let’s say it’s not going well, say DNF [don’t finish] Both races, I don’t think anything hurts, “Larson said about his legacy.” But if you do good, it definitely helps. So that part of him is great.

“But in reality it is nothing that I think at this time. Maybe in the future when you are at the end of your career … at this time, I really do not think on the inherited side. I love going, and I have to do both and have to do work, and have a job, and I have to do.

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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