“I'm fine mentally, and crashes like this where you know what happened and what caused it, you can brush those off pretty quick. It's when you snap loose and crash and don't really know what happened, that's what gets to your head. It's just unfortunate. It was a brand new car we brought to Indy, and it's destroyed right now.”
The Pacific Coast and American Dream teams also left the Brickyard with badly damaged machinery after Mario Dominguez and Phil Giebler, respectively, suffered encounters with the wall. Neither made the field, but both have vowed to be back on track before too long.
“It's disappointing," PCM owner Tyler Tadevic admitted, "It's our first event in the IndyCar Series. We've had this car all of three weeks, and we just went ahead and picked the Indy 500 as our first event. It's the biggest show on earth, and we didn't get to make it this year, but it's just another race, just like all the other races we do. We'll be in Milwaukee and we'll represent Mexico City - and Mario's still our guy.
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Mario's okay, the car's okay, so we'll be all right. To get here and make rookie orientation, then get out there and be the last car... we were qualified if we could finish those last laps. That's how it goes. We'll be back in Milwaukee.”
American Dream owner Eric Zimmerman also confirmed that his team would be back before the end of the year, but was trying to source a Dallara to replace the ageing Panoz that Giebler totalled in his Saturday accident. Despite tapping Jaques Lazier as a possible replacement for Bump Day, Zimmermann was quick to call time on his outfit's ambitions in an effort to ensure the future.
“We're going to make an entry to the Texas race tomorrow, with Jaques," he confirmed, "We're going to acquire a new car and take the team to Texas. We're also doing the Indy Lights programme here on Friday, and we'll take that team to Milwaukee as well.
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