Ryan Hunter-Reay was equally as excited about qualifying third in the DHL/Sun Drop car.
“I’m just so happy with the team what they’ve done with the race cars. It’s been so much fun, and it’s been all down to the team,” Hunter-Reay explained, comparing this year’s success with the struggles at last year’s event when he was bumped from the field. “The team has worked so hard over the past 364 days – and it’s just a complete turnaround and they put their heart and souls into these things. I want to thank them giving me such a fast race car. We let (Ryan) Briscoe have it (the pole) today, but we’re going to go out and go two-better in eight days and win this thing. I’m definitely taking it in. I’ve felt the lows here and I’m certainly taking it in and absorbing the temporary high of being on the front row. Next week is what counts and I think we have a race car capable of (winning) next week.”