HPD CEO Art St. Cyr has said, while he was pleased a Honda-powered car topped Phoenix’s Friday evening session, he does not believe the full potential of the new aerokit has been tapped. In the afternoon session, the fastest Honda-powered car – that of Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing entry – was 2.5mph off the top Chevrolet runner, Helio Castroneves. But St. Cyr said just as he wasn’t elated by Marco Andretti’s Andretti Autosport-Honda heading the field in the evening, he hadn’t been worried by the HPD cars’ apparent struggle earlier in the day. He told Motorsport.com: “IndyCar changed the aero specification for this test and so we didn’t exactly come here...
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