You think, ‘Of course I can go over there and do that and it wouldn’t be a problem.’”ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThat inherent arrogance was underscored two years ago, when Alonso showed up at the Indy 500 for the first time. “I looked at the times and, frankly, for his first-ever qualifying for Fernando to be fifth — what does that say about Indy?” five-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton mused to L’Equipe shortly afterward. “You’ve got to be a good driver, but setup and all those things at those margins is so important,” said F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo, who has never driven an Indy car or raced on an oval. “Obviously as part of the F1 family, we want him to do well.” One of the reasons the Indy 500 is so difficult is it tests the machines — and how they are tuned — just as much as the drivers. “A big team like McLaren, and you see a small team like Juncos, it just shows this competition, it’s not easy no matter who you are,” three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves said.

Source: thestar May 23, 2019 23:15 UTC