He hasn’t won in the series since 2017 and his next win won’t come at the Indianapolis 500 next Sunday.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Now the younger Rahal, a six-time Ind圜ar race winner who’d hoped to make his 16th straight Indy 500 start, is on the outside looking in. Rahal could not bump his team mate Kevin Cogan from the field and refused to “buy out” another qualified driver. The Rahal/Hogan chassis, a rebadged evolution of the Truesports chassis, was taken on as a favour from Rahal to his late former car owner Jim Trueman – but it was too flimsy and inconsistent to qualify for the race. The elder Rahal was bumped from the field in 1993, months after he’d won his third Ind圜ar series championship. “I knew from the start, we were in trouble,” Rahal said before turning away from the camera at last, the sadness too much to bear. It had been a torrid week for the RLL team in the lead-up to time trials. “But, you know, you’ve gotta be positive, you’ve gotta be humble and gracious, in victory and defeat. We were the slowest of our cars just on pure pace all week. “Everybody puts a lot into this, we just came up short,” Rahal said, as the emotions within him began to boil over and the realisation of being excluded set in. “I’m surprised – I think with the heat soak and stuff, I’m really surprised,” remarked Rahal, who watched Harvey cool his car for several slow laps as the track otherwise sat vacant once everyone had made their first runs. You’re kinda stuck there.” Harvey’s second run with ten minutes remaining in the session wasn’t enough to bump Rahal from the field, but his third and final run was – by 0.007 miles per hour. You can’t do anything, you can’t run again. Rahal was sat in his car as the one-hour session had come to an end, sitting on the “bubble” with a four-lap average speed of 229.159 miles per hour. “We gave it what we had,” Rahal said to his crew before speaking with pit reporter Marty Snyder. “We weren’t good enough,” said the 34-year-old, second-generation driver.Īs Jack Harvey celebrated with his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing crew after his last-minute run in the Last Chance qualifying session put him in the field, Rahal hugged every member of his number 15 team – including his father Bobby.
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