SPEEDWAY, Ind. (May 19, 2016) – Indy 500 Practice Daily Report

JR HILDEBRAND, NO. 6 PREFERRED FREEZER SERVICES CHEVROLET: “We got a lot of running in today.  We’re trying to get ready for qualifying.  Today there’s sort of a mixture of qualifying stuff and race stuff.  We’re getting ready for Fast Friday tomorrow, which will be entirely qualifying preparations.  We’re just trying to collect as much data as we can and get ready to rock and roll when we get some extra horsepower tomorrow.”

ED CARPENTER, NO. 20 FUZZY’S ULTRA PREMIUM VODKA CHEVROLET: “It was kind of a tough day. We chased a lot of issues. We had a gearbox problem part of the day and never really got it solved, we just worked around it. Not the Thursday we were hoping for but we did finally get some race runs in at the end and it made me feel a little better. I think the car is in a pretty decent place. Handling-wise, I was relatively happy. You always have to make improvements here and there, but we’re just struggling to find the speed in it. We’ll keep looking on our end and see what we can come up with. Obviously, we’ll get some help tomorrow with power so we’ll see how it goes.”

JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 21 PREFERRED FREEZER SERVICES CHEVROLET: “Another productive day. No big dramas, so thats good. I think we got a good program going and we’ll try to keep it solid for tomorrow. Get some good boost and see where we’re at. I feel good. We worked a lot on race run and it should be pretty decent in traffic. Now we have to make it fast by ourselves.”