Marcus Armstrong, Colton Herta cleared to race after hard crashes at Indy

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Bob Pockrass

Fox Motorsports Insider

Indianapolis – Meyer Shank Racing Racing Marcus Armstrong and the global pilot of Andretti Colton Herta had great scares in brutal clashes on Saturday, but has been authorized to try to make the Indianapolis 500 field.

Herta’s car put on top legs after turning and attacking after hitting the wall by turning his classification attempt. He was clear shortly after his accident. Armstrong had an earlier blow in the day in practice and had to wait almost five horses before cleaning the brain shock protocols.

Herta was the accident that looked more scary, since Sparks flew from the halo that covers the driver’s head while the car slipped on his roof.

“It happened so fast, you know, you don’t realize,” Heta said on the other way around and on her side. “Simply stinks because it only makes the second impact much larger.”

Armstrong, a 24 -year -old driver from New Zealand, said he cleared all radiographs and controls of brain shock.

“I feel good,” Armstrong said before asking, “I feel a little hungry. I could have coffee.”

The car was destroyed and Armstrong will have to drive a converted road course car.

“I hope to be flat in curve 1 and 2 in my first round,” said Armstrong. “I’m sure we can make the field.”

Armstrong will be among the four drivers: Marco Andretti, Jacob Abel and Rinus Veekay are the others, fighting for the last three places on the last day of classification on Sunday. Herta put his support car in the field and will begin 29º.

“This place does not scare me at all,” Heta said before her classification career. “If they have a car ready for me, I would go right now. I suppose that nervousness would come from how this car will be compared to the other? We have no idea.”

After qualifying, Herta reiterated that feeling, since he never had the opportunity to shake the backup car before qualifying (the same was true for Armstrong, whose qualification career was not quick enough to decipher the top 30). Then, when he began his classification career, Heta had no idea if the car would be quick enough.

“It really is an assumption, to be honest, when they put you in that position,” said Herta. “You have to be flat [out]. He is just a child of hope that everyone did their job.

“I trust my boys a lot … I have no trouble hitting the wall here and having big like today. It doesn’t feel good and stinks, but it doesn’t scare me when I return to the racing car.”

While the drivers fought against the significant wind on Saturday, Neether Driver blamed the wind.

Armstrong: “I was clearly waiting for much more grip when I got to curve 1 of what there was. However, I feel that we did not achieve everything well. What it was and I expected me to seriously injure me.”

Herta: “It was sudden. What was the wind how should it have not been awake [on the side] For a burst of wind. I think we are just [riding the car] In the nose to start. As soon as I became [Turn] 1, he was gone. “

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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