Ryan Dalziel may have been racing in the American Le Mans series in 2005 for the Pacific Coast Motorsports team, but last weekend he finally got the chance to make his Champ Car World Series debut when he was drafted in to the Dale Coyne line-up for the Molson Indy Toronto.
Crash.net took the chance to chat to the Scottish driver about his debut, his time in the ALMS so far, and his possible future back in open wheel racing...
Crash.net:
Ryan, you qualified 16th and then finished inside the top ten. Were you pleased with how your Champ Car debut went?
Ryan Dalziel:
I was disappointed with where we qualified, but looking at the weekend as a whole we didn’t get any seat time in the car and I’ve been out of single-seaters for so long. I was jumping back in at the deep end on one of my least favourite circuits so the end result was what we aimed for. Obviously it was a little bit by default, but Toronto is all about staying out of trouble and I think we did that and came away with what we deserved.
Crash.net:
You had contact early on with Marcus Marshall which put you in trouble early on, but just talk us through your race.
Ryan Dalziel:
Race day in general was pretty disappointing for us. We missed all of the warm-up because a driveshaft broke and we’d concentrated a lot on race set-up so I never go the chance to drive the car on full tanks meaning the race was a bit of an unknown for me.
