A tough day all around for the team at Nashville.

The Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team started the race from the second, 10th and 14th positions, and the first opportunity to run long stints in the heat of August.

Pato O'Ward ran second through the first stint, 25 laps, before making his first pit stop of the day. From then on his race was inside the top 10 and eventually finishing 8th.

Alexander Rossi also was consistently inside the top 11, but was involved in an on-track incident with RInus Veekay on Lap 32. After a bent left-rear toe-link, he went two laps down and finished 19th, while Felix Rosenqvist had an accident late in the race and finished 22nd.

Read what the drivers as well as Racing Director Gavin Ward said after 80 laps at the Grand Prix of Nashville.

Race Date	Sunday, August 6
Round	13 of 17
Total Laps	80 laps
Total Race Distance	168 miles / 270.37 km
Length	2.17 miles / 3.49 km
Number of Turns	11

Pato O'Ward, Driver, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, said:

"It was a tough day in Nashville. I think we were too late in taking our first pit stop; we lost a lot of time there. It's pretty much a track position race. It's tough to pass, especially when you have fuel numbers and you can't really use the push to pass. I'm bummed we went backwards. We'll collect and try to have a good Indy road course, just look forward to what's next."

Starting Position	2nd
Finishing Position	8th
Championship Standings	6th	353 points

Alexander Rossi, Driver, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, said:

"The good thing is for the first weekend really since Detroit, I had a good race car in the race, so we definitely found a direction, which is what we were really hoping to get coming into this weekend. That's the positive. There was a bit of a mess out there with Veekay, and then I made a mistake a lap later, brushed the wall, and that kind of ended our day. I'm bummed for the team. That was one of the better cars that we had in quite some time, and we didn't get anything out of it. We'll take the good parts from today and move on to Indy next week."

Starting Position	10th
Finishing Position	19th
Championship Standings	11th	276 points

Felix Rosenqvist, Driver, No. 6 NTT DATA Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, said:

"Tough weekend overall. There was some hope there after qualifying. I thought we had a bit better car than what showed. In the race, I was struggling a lot with straightline speed and with pace. We were able to follow but couldn't really get by anyone. I got stuck on the outside in that last restart and hit the marbles. It was like going on ice; the tarmac was kind of breaking up at that point. It was a disappointing weekend. We really didn't have any positives in the race. We tried to gamble on a strategy, but it didn't work out. It is a weekend to forget for us."

Starting Position	14th
Finishing Position	22nd
Championship Standings	13th	241 points

Gavin Ward, Racing Director, Arrow McLaren, said:

"Obviously, not the day we were hoping for today with two cars that got caught up in incidents. Pato did well to bring it home, but the race really started to fall apart for him when he couldn't make the Firestone Greens last on that first stint. I was a little bit surprised on how difficult it was to get a stint like that out of those tires, but that's part of the game. 

"It's a process; we'll learn from it and get better. It was a tough day. You have to stay positive. With a stretch like this, it's about the long game and we'll keep playing it."