Saturday, July 19 2003
 Sarah’s
#23 GMAC/AOL entry fought major handling problems throughout the evening
before engineer Mark Weida parked the car on lap 50. Despite pitting
early on lap 30 to address Fisher’s concerns, the car later picked up a
tremendous push which found Fisher scrambling to
keep the car in the narrow groove on the IndyCar Series only concrete
track.
“We were really loose in the beginning, and came in early and made a
turn and a half adjustment to the front wing, which is not really a
major change,” said Fisher. “After a couple of laps, it then went just
the opposite direction with a serious push. As hard as we tried, I
couldn’t keep it down in the lower line so that the faster cars could
run around high.”
“We’ve run well during the day, but the night races just haven’t gone
our way,” added Fisher. “We had a tough final practice session last
night as well, so we’d gone back today and reviewed our notes from prior
runs here. We thought we’d made the necessary changes to the set-up, but
the car was uncharacteristically unpredictable. We’re regrouping to find
out what we’re dealing with, and the good news is that Chevy’s got some
help coming as well which should help put us back on track and up
front.”
Fisher finished 20th on the evening at Nashville, which now become even
more critical as GM determines the order in which teams will receive the
new Gen IV Chevy Indy V8 motors. All Chevy teams have been promised new
motors by the Kentucky race, with the Chevy points leaders receiving the
first two engines over the next two races.
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Friday, July 18 2003
Sarah qualified in the 18th position with a speed of 199.163.
Sarah was the third fastest Chevy behind Meira & Rice. |
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Pre-Race Quote
“Nashville is a different race than normal. It’s an engineering
challenge over the others. We opted out of the testing, so unlike other
races we'll be starting from square one. Country music definitely isn’t
my thing, but I love to swing around Nashville Superspeedway, so
hopefully we’ll be fast right out of the box.” |
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