Driver's quotes from Milwaukee
source: paddocktalk.com SAM HORNISH JR. (No. 6 Marlboro Team Penske Dallara/Toyota/Firestone, winner ABC Supply Co./A.J. Foyt Indy 225 ): "It was a heck of a race out there today for Marlboro Team Penske. The team put a good car underneath me today. I battled a lot today. I really wanted to win after we had that little problem with Helio. I don't ever want to see that happen. I feel real bad for that guy. It's close racing, and you can't take it back. You've got to go out there and try and win it, and I was pushing it really hard there at the end. I was trying to baby the gearbox, and make sure I didn't hurt it at all. I wasn't down shifting quite as hard as I needed going into Turn 1, and the car pushed up and got into the marbles. I did all I could trying to save it and keep it off the wall. That's how he (Franchitti) got around me because I still didn't have my momentum back up yet. It was a tough race for us today, but I'm happy." DARIO FRANCHITTI (No. 27 ArcaEx Dallara/Honda/Firestone, finished second): "We were definitely beaten by the better car today. Sam Hornish, the guys in the Penske crew, were just quicker than us. I think Kyle Moyer made a very good call, but we just didn't have enough. We tried our best. The ArcaEx guys, their pit stops were great all day." (About how close he was on fuel) "I don't know. Pretty close by what the dashboard was telling me. Sam made the mistake there in (Turn) 2, and I thought I had him again, but we were still saving fuel, and he was going flat out, and that was it." TOMAS SCHECKTER (No. 4 Pennzoil Panther Dallara/Chevrolet/Firestone, finished third): "We had a good car in the end. From where we went in the beginning, I had to save the car maybe 10, 20 times. These guys just worked on the car and worked on the car with the pressures and the front wing. In the end, I had the best car out there. I could get people high and low. Another 10 laps and I think maybe this race would have been ours. I finished in the top-three, and I am happy with that."
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