Q+A: Dave Faustino – 12WillPower's race engineer at Walker Racing in 2007, KV Racing in ’08 and at Team_Penske since 2010 – gives his verdict on how the 2022 IndyCar championship was won and how Willy P has evolved
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So let’s rewind eighth months. Will decided at the start of the year to think ‘big picture’, focus on the championship, to keep banking on the sure thing rather than gamble. Was that a policy you could get behind and were you part of the decision-making process? But in general, yeah, we were pretty satisfied with how the points were building up. The series is so competitive now, you have to come into it knowing that there isn’t going to be one guy who runs away with it. Josef had that potential – five wins – but in between he had bad days, too. We had made certain assumptions going into the season, that it was more likely than not going to be Josef and [Scott] Dixon who were our main rivals, and so if we were doing OK relative to them, we were happy.
Will, Rick Mears, and others have said in 2022 he was much quicker at calming down after setbacks. Do you agree? Hmm… Well I’d agree with those ones, but I think also the first Indy road course race that ended in rain. After being on pole, I think maybe we could have done better than third. And Nashville – we certainly had more potential, for at least a podium, if he hadn’t been nursing damage. I think our three cars were the best, and none of us got the right result.
Oh yeah. The thing is, there’s slight changes to the tires each year, slight changes to the racetracks, and there’s always temperature changes to deal with. The things that happened to the car when the track temp got hot, say, four years ago, aren’t necessarily the same as what happens now when it gets hot. And even year-to-year it can change, maybe due to tire compounds.
I’ve now been here a long time, and there’s a couple of years that stand out to me where we had very cohesive groups that worked together well as a team, and this year ranked right up there. Yeah, that was pretty awesome, it really was. And then the second Indy road course race, where Will finished Lap 2 down in 17because of a Turn 1 incident and then getting divebombed on the next lap. We had to come up with a new strategy, but the only way it could work was if he got a much better fuel number / lap time ratio than we’d ever anticipated. When it comes to doing that stuff, Will is still very impressive.
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