source: champcarworldseries.com ERIC MAUK: All right, ladies and gentlemen, well get started with our post race press conference, from the west Edmonton Milwaukee Grand Prix, presented by the Brick, round eight of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. As the third of our top three finishers is making his way to the podium now, we'll start with our third place finisher today, driver of the #7 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone for Forsythe Championship Racing, A.J. Allmendinger, finished third today, earned his fifth podium finish of the season, 12th of his career. A.J., you fought a long battle today. Not only did you have to come from fourth on the grid to fight your way up, but you fought a number of health problems today. Tell us a bit about it. A.J. ALLMENDINGER: It was a tough race, for sure. I was under the weather since yesterday. You know, really we had a third place car. The whole Forsythe Indeck team did a great job. We've been struggling since we got here. I think we kind of fell behind the track. We were quickest in the morning session on Friday. We kind of fell behind the track. It's been a tough weekend throughout with all different kinds of things. But the team fought hard. We got on the podium. Whether I was healthy or not, I think we probably would have had a third place car. I'm really pleased to be back on the podium. You know things are going right when you're kind of disappointed being third after four races with a team. You know, I'm pleased with it. I'm looking forward to San Jose now. Go back to a street course. I think we got those figured out fairly well. ERIC MAUK: Tell the people a little bit about what it takes to stay focused and to stay fast, perform well in one of these cars when you feel like what you'd rather be doing is laying down. A.J. ALLMENDINGER: Yeah, especially on this racetrack. I don't know if I've ever seen so much rubber laid down on a circuit. Under yellow, rubber was flying everywhere. This is probably the worst circuit to be unhealthy at just because it's so physically demanding. You know, it's just something that we all go through at some point where we're sick for a race. You just got to keep fighting. The middle of the race is probably the toughest when there was no yellows for a whole stint and a half. But you just fight through it. You have no excuses. You just do the best you can with it. When you have a great team like Forsythe, it makes it just a bit easier to get through problems when you're having it like that.
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