Streets of Nashville

Practice and qualifying date: Saturday, August 5

Round: 13/17

Total laps: 80 Laps

Total race distance: 168 miles/270.37 km

Length: 2.17 miles/3.49 km

Number of turns: 11

Session start time:

• Green Flag: Sunday, 11:30 a.m. CT

TUNE IN: Sunday, 11:00 a.m. CT on NBC

Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet

Practice 2: 11th, 1:35.3096

Total Laps: 8

Qualifying:

• Round 1, Group 2: 4th, 01:15.0849
• Round 2: 1st, 01:14.5944
• Firestone Fast Six: 2nd, 01:14.9395

Starting Position: P2

“Congrats to Scott. I don’t think I had three-tenths of a second in there to get a little bit closer; I maybe had one. But I was super happy with my car. I think we were really strong in Round 2. I thought it would be a couple tenths slower in the Firestone Fast 6 just because I wasn’t on the Firestone Red Tires. I’ve never won from pole, so I’m not angry I’m starting second.”

Alexander Rossi, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet 

Practice 2: 26th, No Time

Total Laps: 0

Qualifying:

• Round 1, Group 1: 4th, 01:15.8303
• Round 2: 10th, 01:15.5711

Starting Position: P10

”It was a wild day. We didn’t go out for Practice 2. It was one of our better street-course qualifyings, but we still have a decent gap to find to get to the top six. We’ll keep chipping at it; we’ve learned some good things and we have lots to play for tomorrow.”

Felix Rosenqvist, No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet 

Practice 2: 21st, 1:38.9884

Total Laps: 3

Qualifying:

• Round 1, Group 2: 7th, 01:15.4638

Starting Position: P14

”That was very close, just four-thousandths of a second from transferring to Round 2. I’m a bit disappointed because it was a good lap, but some small things kept us from getting there. I think little limiter hits and stuff like that would’ve been enough to transfer, but it’s super tight. 

This hasn’t really been the smoothest weekend, so it was kind of a big step to take the No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet into qualifying, but I thought the car felt really good. The balance was good. It’s just tight out there. I think having two sets of Firestone Reds will be helpful tomorrow. At this track, I don’t think starting position is hugely important. Having no warmup is going to make it a bit more of a guessing game going into the race, but we’re pretty good at guessing, so we should be alright.”

Gavin Ward, Race Director, Arrow McLaren

“Front row start for Pato is great. You always want the pole, but the front row is a great place to start and we’ll try to keep our nose clean at the start of the race. There’s a little more work to do for Alexander and Felix starting 10th and 14th, but with the way the race can run here, we have three bullets that can win this thing. We’ll open our options up strategy-wise and see how it goes.”