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Takuma Sato finished ninth in the final IndyCar Round 9 Gateway race. When he heard that he had received an order from a machine that was late on the turn of “Do not let her pass to car number 30”, he expressed his anger as “a behavior not typical of an athlete.”
Takuma Sato (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing), who started from pole position, led the opening early. It was a really stable race and while saving fuel I had plenty of time to turn around at the top.
However, the strategy of lengthening each period as in Race 1 did not give an advantage in Race 2. Takuma Sato, who had reached the back marker, was forced to run at his slow pace, as the yellow flag did not appear. , and the rivals who struggled in the strategy to enter the pits early gained the advantage.
In the race, the yellow flag did not go out even after passing the tipping point, and Takuma Sato, who was in seventh, got caught in a slow machine and could not get close to the leading group.
On lap 197 near the finish, there was a contact mess in front of Takuma Sato, who tried to avoid it, but made slight contact with the outer wall and the first and last caution flags of Race 2 appeared. The second game at the front door was the Under Yellow ending.
“We led the race from the start and saved a lot of fuel,” says Takuma Sato.
“But we couldn’t reach the end of the group and extend the lead at our own pace. It was very difficult to overtake because there was a lot of dust on the road today.”
“Our strategy was to make the first turn as long as possible, and the opponents were an initial pit strategy. The difference determined the whereabouts of the game.”
“We continued to save fuel and tried to change the strategy and change the time in the pits in the last round, but we got stuck in traffic. Some machines were four laps behind, but from the pit It seems they were ordered to ‘do not let car number pass 30. “That is not a race. It is not an act of sportsman, so I am not convinced. However, we do anything I could not do it”
Category: F1 / Takuma Sato / IndyCar
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