Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood voiced his dismay after qualifying only 18th for the IndyCar Series season-opener at St. Petersburg.
Kirkwood, who won at street tracks at Long Beach and Nashville last year, failed to progress from the first stage of qualifying and blamed a strategy call for pushing too late on the alternate compound Firestone tires, having missed the sweet spot of the rubber. His team-mates Colton Herta and Marcus Ericsson both made the Fast Six and will start fourth and sixth. “Honestly, we were just out of synch on laps for some reason,” Kirkwood told NBC Peacock.
And if you make a small mistake like that, not understanding whether to go lap two or lap three, it puts you out of the top six in the group, so it’s unfortunate.” Kyle Kirkwood, Andretti Global Honda Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images Kirkwood believes that race strategy will be crucial in Sunday’s race, and that his lowly starting spot – with an extra sets of fresh alternate tires available to him after he failed to progress to Q2 – can lead to a charge towards the front.
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