Some days at the track are more difficult than others.

After starting the race first and third, Arrow McLaren SP quickly saw their race change in the opening laps. Pato O'Ward was spun on Lap 1, in the second corner, and fell to last but climbed through the field to finish 12th. Felix Rosenqvist led seven laps and ultimately finished ninth.

Hear from both Arrow McLaren SP drivers Felix Rosenqvist and Pato O’Ward, as well as President Taylor Kiel after Saturday's 85-lap event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's road course. Next on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule is the Music City Grand Prix in Nashville, Tennessee.

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"Today was a tough race. I gave it everything. The first stint on blacks was pretty poor; good in the beginning and then we started losing ground. I feel like the car felt good, but we just didn't have any pace so we just kept losing positions. The Andretti cars just left us in the distance.

"We started out in like P12 or P13 after the first sequence and from there on there was nothing really happening as we were just doing the same lap times as others on the reds. The car felt good, but I think we had some issue like a dragging brake as we kept losing ground on the straights and it felt a bit abnormal so we will have to look into that.

"We have to nail the details on days like this, and it seems like today we didn't. To come away with P9, though, we were able to collect some good points. We'll have a look at everything and go to Nashville."

"What looked to be like it was going to be a good day, turned out to be really tough for both cars. I got hit during the start which damaged the car and I kind of had to nurse it until the end. We basically went all the way to last place and had to shift strategy-wise. The car wasn't far off, but this wasn't a good race for us today."

"Certainly not the day we were hoping for with the qualifying positions we had. Not sure what happened to Felix there on the start, but Pato got turned around and was forced to the tail end of the field. That was less than ideal. We tried to get the most out of it and try an alternate strategy - which is very difficult with the way the race played out - but ultimately recovered to P12 for the No. 5 car and P9 with Felix. It is a disappointing day, no doubt, but still a lot of racing to go in the season. We will bounce back in Nashville next weekend."

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