F. Schumacher
F. Schumacher
race strongly
We feel pretty strongly that we can be competitive here. Every race now is important for us.
amazing last mistakes perform race
We had an amazing weekend. A lot of work, we made some mistakes in the last race and to come here and perform the way we performed...well you can see the result.
good news obviously point race year
That was a very interesting race and it is obviously good news to have scored our first point of the year so we are very happy.
biggest fortunate gets indy nationals race straight three win winning won year
We've been fortunate to have won Indy three straight years. Each win was that much more exciting, let me tell you. It never gets old winning the U.S. Nationals How can it? It's our biggest race of the year and the most prestigious.
came final leave points race round
I came to the final round up 80 points and I'm thinking, 'I leave this race up 60 points or up 100 points.' That's huge.
believe came disastrous good happy last leaving people races reason worst
Last year, we came here with some disastrous performance, one of the worst races we had in the year. This year, there is good reason to believe we'll be happy people leaving this place.
amazing came circuit decision dry expected faster great incredibly instead job race remember score seeing slippery slow straight team track
Like everyone we expected the track to dry out a lot faster than it did. Instead the track was incredibly slow to dry out. It was amazing how slippery the circuit was, and I can't remember seeing a race like that. We came straight back in and that enabled us to score some points. The team did a great job but we just got one decision wrong.
fight knew longer possible races
I'm a realist, and some races ago I pretty much knew that it's no longer possible to fight for the championship, and especially after Turkey,
race win year
It's not the right way to win my first race of the year
break good great mouth race words
It's always great to have a good result, but it won't break us if we don't. Some words have been put in my mouth that it's a make-or-break race - and it's not true. It's an important race.
asking car drive exciting hauled mean points race runs smoked soon sure thats track watching
Its a big day tomorrow, ... Doug runs Bernstein. Thats exciting to watch. (Fans are asking me what its like to be in a points battle) and I say, you know what? Its exciting. Its exciting to be in it. Just because I drive a race car doesnt mean Im not a race fan. As soon as Im done, Im watching them. Its not just that were in a points battle, but Bernstein and Kalitta? Thats a stout race. Bernstein just hauled butt down the track and Kalitta just smoked the tires. You can be sure its going to have their stomachs turning.
based basis best early move possible race scoring space
It was a move based on me making space for him, which I did not want that early in the race on the basis of scoring as much as possible and getting the best out of the weekend.
change coming expect few last performance quick races reason
With these last few races all coming in quick succession, there was no reason to expect a big change in our performance level,
chance difficult dry hard means obviously pick races run testing tomorrow toyota wait weather weekend wet works year
Unfortunately weather like that means that this will be a hard weekend for all the teams. Obviously it makes it very difficult to pick which dry tyre to run ? if we ever get a chance to run on dries this weekend. It makes tomorrow busier, too. We'll have to go out in the wet eventually. There have been no wet races yet this year and at Toyota we haven't done much testing in the wet either. So we'll have to wait and see how it works out.