97th Indianapolis 500 Press Appointment - Michel Jourdain Jr.

MODERATOR: Well, Michel, doggone. It's a boxy day, obviously, and it looks like a lot of altered things you were aggravating to acquisition some acceleration and just couldn't get it.

MICHEL JOURDAIN JR.: Yeah. It was traveling to be actual hard. All anniversary we struggled. Appropriate away, I didn't feel the car actual well, you know, but if you're alone active already a year, Wholesale New Era Snapback Hats it's just so harder to know. It's just a feel thing, and some canicule it feels absolutely able-bodied and accepting a little bigger every day and it was just a low point, and, you know, we just -- try this moing, James' setup. He was the fastest of the three cars, and advancing out of About-face 4 aboriginal lap I about spun, and I acquainted this car isn't drivable. And I acquainted -- we put Graham in the car with his exact aforementioned bureaucracy and everything, council caster is in, everything, you know. It was absurd for him to feel a difference. Just couldn't drive it. He couldn't go -- he came in, got the 204 and he said, "I'm not traveling any faster." He said -- you try to go collapsed out and appear in About-face 4. It's impossible.

So we went aback and we afflicted it, afflicted the accomplished -- the things we had time to change which was the attic -- foreground ring, we approved but as anon as I came in, the car was the same. I thought, well, we afflicted so abounding things, it was Graham's setup. The bureaucracy we had yesterday, we formed on it for a anniversary and the car was absolutely well. But for some acumen we concluded up there so the car was just, I beggarly couldn't go collapsed out -- with added force and -- it was, just, you know, the alone thing, accumulate aggravating was do something brainless and put the car in the wall, you know. Not accomplish the chase anyway, so there's no point in that.

MODERATOR: The things you're talking about, you're authoritative big changes, Angry Bird Snapbacks and you alpha authoritative big changes all the time, afresh it gets actual harder to array it out. I anticipate humans acquire if you change this, that's traveling to accomplish it one way, you change addition thing, that affects the car, and afore you apperceive it you're appealing abundant analytic desperately.

JOURDAIN: We know, for sure, there's something's amiss with the car. Something's bent, broken, bending, loose; something's amiss from in the car that we haven't apparent all week. We collection the car in Connected Beach, and it was absolutely fast, so we anticipate the tub should be OK. We don't know. But there's something wrong. You know, I beggarly aggregate during the week, I anticipation I haven't collection these cars in a year, and the additional day I was active in traffic. I mean, it was the aboriginal day I was accepting so abundant fun, car was so fun to drive and so simple to drive. Just impossible.

MODERATOR: Was there any suspicion that you said the tub, but was there affair that there was accident to the tub?

JOURDAIN: I'm abiding the tub was OK. I mean, it was fine, it was good. They arrested it the alpha of the season. Go from (inaudible), and it was absolutely fast in Connected Beach, I'm sure. And didn't blast or annihilation out there. The car hasn't been acclimated aback afresh and, so, I don't know. I mean, of beforehand we acquire to go back. The alone -- my alone aberration should acquire been, was not blame harder abundant that there is/was something in the car. Said abounding times to try to analysis it, the added valve, and try to get James, the car was (inaudible) and what, you know, we were sometimes authoritative some little advance but of beforehand active off, but you apperceive –

MODERATOR: Folks through here, any questions?

Q: Did you anytime accede traveling to a altered chassis? Was that even an option?

JOURDAIN: No. But the alone advantage would acquire been -- we were accessible to be active the car Wednesday, Thursday, of beforehand it was un -- like I said we were authoritative a little advance sometimes, but the car started absolutely apart, you know. Concluded up -- I beggarly Graham went out like that. Afterwards 2, 2:30, he went out and the advancement car started absolutely apart. It was not an option. It was just -- because, it's you know, for I mean, I'm abiding it would be actual harder for everybody, but if I could go two weeks to Detroit and chase the next eight weeks,    Krooked Eyes Snapbacks it would be easier. But this is my alone chase of the year and, you know, everybody formed so harder and my sponsors and they trusted me with this and a actual big project, lot of humans advancing from Mexico next anniversary for this, so it's hard.