Brian Barnhart Quotes on Cars (4 Quotes)

This is the first time of the weekend that we had all 20 cars on the track at the same time. Ed had his problem in Turn two initially. The yellow lights were turned on immediately. There were a lot of cars and a lot of traffic.

Paul was an extremely competent and capable driver. Look at Paul's background and history No one had worked harder to get to this level than Paul did. He ran our Triple-A series for a couple of years, won a race at Milwaukee, finished second in the points 2004. He got an opportunity to go test, and he had thousands of miles in our cars.

Regardless of the number of participants we have on May 30, and I'm confident it will be 33, we will have again for at least the second year in a row, one of the deepest and most competitive fields in the history of the Indianapolis 500 with more cars, more teams and more drivers capable of winning than this place has had in past history.

Very much so because this year should have been the second year of a car-engine formula, and instead we are using the same car and had to do more of an update kit because we did 75 percent road course preparation. With the engine change from 3.5 liters to 3.0, it's made it more difficult as well from an equipment standpoint to increase the number of participants.