25 May 2010
Gold, Speed Racer!
Posted by admin under: public relations .
Who’s getting excited for the Indy 500 this weekend? I’ve never watched it all the way through, but I might give it a gander based on the Boy Scouts of America IndyCar entry this year. If you’ve been following Alex Lloyd’s representation of your favorite youth group’s entry you’ll have a different sight for this race. The Dale Coyne Racing team is putting out a gold and white paint job for this event. It’s the special 100th year anniversary exterior.
There’s a nifty website that is getting driver comments about the race. It’s called PaddockTalk.com. Here’s what Alex has been saying.
May 15th – ALEX LLOYD (No. 19 Boy Scouts of America): “We seem to be lucky. We got a good amount of running in around the showers. Our car feels pretty good. We were a little high on our downforce. A lot of people were going for qualifying trim and going for speed. There’s no need for us to rush at it. We just looked at the balance. The balance of our car is very good, so that’s pretty promising. We’ll see how it goes when we start taking downforce off and see where the speeds are.”
May 21 – ALEX LLOYD (No. 19 Boy Scouts of America): “We finally got to trim out a little. The weather held us back the last couple of days. The speed’s pretty good. It’s certainly where we thought we would be. We certainly have more on the table with regards to downforce. We’re still a little on the conservative side. We’re feeling pretty happy. We finally got to show the speed we felt we had in the car. We’ll try to increase that. There’s definitely a little bit left.”
May 23 – ALEX LLOYD (No. 19 Boy Scouts of America): “If we had been able to do that speed a little quicker, it would have been top 15. But the heat came up, track temp came up, and we just lost the balance (Saturday) completely, and we just couldn’t get a four-lap run of any substance. Today we were happy that we got a decent run in. The car was pretty loose, and I was hanging on out there. I was ready for the checkered flag to fall. The times were pretty good, and I think it’s good enough to get in, but you never know until 6 o’clock. I’m pretty happy with what we’ve done, and the Boy Scout guys have done a great job. We’ve rebounded from a pretty tough day.”
No worries. Alex qualified and will be in this Sunday’s race along with 32 others. Keep your eyes open for that flashing gold and white hopefully passing under the checkered flag first.
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