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Press conference: New Indy 500 qualifying rules.

2005 Indianapolis 500  May 2005. Rookie Orientation Practice. special firestone indy 500 tires.
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Press conference: New Indy 500 qualifying rules.

Friday, 13th May 2005

With the recent announcement that the qualifying rules for the Inianapolis 500 have changed, a press conference was held to clarify the new changes.

process all over again for the second day, then you're into another five or six sets of tyres at minimum. Not only on Race Day, you want to have a minimum of 10 or 12 sets of tyres to support your effort for a 500-mile
event. That's why this thing is really difficult to totally understand the scope of what we're trying to do here. If you're like Tom (Anderson) down there with Hondas, you're going to get in. Some of us, like Tim (Cindric) and us, we're thinking about what it is we've got to do with what we've got with tire allotment to do the best job to peak at exactly the right time and
not screw up our chance on Race Day. That's really what this is all about for us."

(About going back out late in the day to get into the top 11) "I think you have to be, at Indianapolis greed is never your friend here, to begin with. I think practicality and honesty and self-evaluation is what gets you in the race and helps you win the race, and that's really what we're talking about.

Maybe that's the basis of your question. It's very important to analyze where you are. In our case as a team, we have one driver who has never been here before. For him to go through the qualifying process is going to be a massive, pressure-filled situation for him. In his case, we're going to make an attempt so that when he's ready to make an attempt, if the first one doesn't work for him, he'll be solid, and he'll be able to do it. The other two guys are going do it, because they want to read the racetrack, because that's how you get in the race.

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