{"id":11036,"date":"2021-05-22T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.felixracing.se\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2021-05-22T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T14:23:34","slug":"indy-500-fast-friday-pre-qualifying-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/indy-500-fast-friday-pre-qualifying-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy 500: Fast Friday \/ pre-qualifying report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abbott_IndyP_0521_14192-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Felix comments on the opening days of running at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the work carried out so far through Fast Friday:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;It has been a lot of work these past days, and I think we are starting to get there. No major issues, we\u2019ve kept it on the track, and racked up the laps we wanted to so far.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cFast Friday was a continuation of everything we\u2019ve been working on this week, with plenty of set-up changes and thinking of how to extract the most out of the car in various scenarios. All three of us (drivers in the team) have been working really well together and we\u2019ve managed to get a pretty good feeling in the car now. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cQualifying will be interesting, for sure. We could probably have done with an earlier draw \u2013 I think going early will clearly be a benefit \u2013 but we\u2019ll give it everything we\u2019ve got and try to get into the Fast Nine.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/results\/ntt-indycar-series\/2021\/105th-running-of-the-indianapolis-500\/practice-5\">Fast Friday Results<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/News\/2021\/05\/05-21-DrawOrder\">Qualifying Draw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Qualifying draw:<\/strong> Felix will run 21st among the 35 cars in today&#8217;s qualifying session. The top nine will proceed to Sunday&#8217;s <em>Fast Nine<\/em> battle for pole, while the bottom five will also return to the track again on Sunday, vying for the last three slots (31-33) on the grid in a <em>Last Chance <\/em>shootout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qualifying takes place at <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"??\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf2\/2\/16\/1f1fa_1f1f8.png\">12:00-6:00 pm \/ <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"??\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t13\/2\/16\/1f1f8_1f1ea.png\">18.00-00.00. Timing and scoring is available on the INDYCAR App and <a href=\"http:\/\/racecontrol.indycar.com\/?fbclid=IwAR0ttuGRz-8vYydKdtviK-uOGWjSp0spsWOmZ1JFa7ZNGkH9qbwXJNtbFjQ\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/racecontrol.indycar.com.<\/a> Swedish viewers can watch qualifying live on Viaplay\/V Sport Motor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-11036\" data-postid=\"11036\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-11036 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix comments on the opening days of running at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the work carried out so far through Fast Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[92,47],"class_list":["post-11036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-okategoriserade","tag-2021-ntt-indycar-series","tag-indianapolis-500","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11040,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions\/11040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}