Conor Daly’s race engineer Michael Cannon believes Dale Coyne’s early decision to run extra cars at Indy is paying off, and that DCR is better prepared than ever. Cannon said that the combination of Gabby Chaves, Conor Daly, Pippa Mann and Bryan Clauson has already allowed the team to make big strides in practice for the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500, and that their potential was not reflected by qualifying. The quartet will start between 21st and 28th, but Cannon said those lowly positions actually reflected a combination of running out of time and not risking low downforce following Mann’s accident. “When we started to strip off downforce, that’s when we realized we’d...
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