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Vitor Meira Plans To Attend His First IndyCar Race since Indy 500 Accident

MIAMI July 2, 2009—Indy car driver Vitor Meira will attend his first IndyCar Series race this weekend since sustaining two broken lower vertebrae in his terrifying accident in the Indianapolis 500 in May. Meira arrives at Watkins Glen (NY) International Friday afternoon.

“The reason I want to go to Watkins Glen is first of all to be with the team, with ABC Supply and A.J. Foyt Racing,” said Meira in a telephone interview from his home in Key Biscayne, Fla. earlier today. “They’ve been giving me a lot of support since the accident and most of all, they’re all my friends and I want to be with them. Second of all, to be at the race track, that’s where I always want to be and that’s where I love to be. I don’t want to be at home if I can be at the race track. If I have to choose, I’m definitely going to be at the race track.”

Meira plans to help the ABC Supply Racing team in any way he can once he’s at the beautiful 3.4-mile road course which is located in New York’s Southern Finger Lakes Region.

“I’ll probably go around the track and watch some cars with a stopwatch and take some times and take notes on some different lines so I can keep Ryan updated on what people are doing out there,” Meira explained. “I’ll do whatever else the team asks me to do but I’m just not going to be very good changing tires and fueling…the rest I will do!”

Notes & Quotes: Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen

• Ryan Hunter-Reay on pressure of being the defending winner: “I think there’s just as much pressure as when I showed up last year just because I put more pressure on myself than anybody else does on me. We’re still in the early days of the partnership between myself and ABC Supply Racing and I think that gives us a little bit of wiggle room. But I’m the winner from the race last year and I’m driving the car that only finished a couple seconds behind me in second place so the numbers are adding up to a potentially successful weekend. We’re going to do everything we can to maximize the full potential of the team.”

• Hunter-Reay on why he likes racing at The Glen: “It’s the heart of America, it happens on the Fourth of July weekend at a track that has lots of history with both IndyCar and Formula 1 racing. Indy cars racing on that track is a great match; they’re made for each other. It’s a very high speed track with technical sections in it, lots of ascents and descents. That track is meant for top-level open wheel racing and that’s what we’re doing. Watkins Glen has everything I look for in a race track.”

• RHR on the key to the car’s set-up: “I think it’s just getting the car to really work through the high speed, falling corners, and at the same time, you have to get down the straights very fast in order to pass in the race. There’s a combination of carrying a lot of downforce and drag to make the car go fast through the corners and carrying little downforce and drag to get the car down the straight fast so finding the right balance of downforce is key to setting up the car.”

• A year ago, Phillips-Van Heusen announced its entry into motorsports at Watkins Glen by making its IZOD brand the official apparel of the Indy Racing League, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a personal sponsor of Ryan Hunter-Reay. Hunter-Reay was featured on a 60’ x 80’ billboard last summer in New York City’s Times Square. During the season, IndyCar drivers make appearances at Macy’s (and Bon Ton) stores in race markets, including Macy’s Carousel Center in Syracuse, N.Y. July 2nd.

Richmond

By A.J. Foyt

Before you can win, you have to finish and our ABC Supply team took a step towards doing just that Saturday night in the SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond International Raceway.

We finished the race.

Finishing 15th isn’t much to celebrate unless it’s the first time your car finished a race without needing some repairs because of accidents from other drivers’ mistakes! It’s been a tough year for our team, our drivers and our sponsors.

We didn’t practice that well and we didn’t qualify well—we lined up in 18th. But in the final practice we were eighth quickest so I think we had a pretty good car for the race. We’re still working on our communication because we don’t always understand what the other one is saying and this was our first race where we worked together during an actual race.

It became pretty clear quickly that passing was going to be more of a challenge than usual at Richmond which has always had close wheel-to-wheel racing. This was bad news for our team because we were starting so far back. Track position was everything.

Ryan Hunter-Reay Finishes 15th for Foyt

RICHMOND June 27, 2009—Ryan Hunter-Reay brought the No. 14 ABC Supply Indy car home without a scratch in the SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond International Raceway Saturday night. Scott Dixon won the 300 lap race which turned out to be a snoozer with very little passing on the track.

Track position--or lack thereof--proved crucial tonight.Most of the passes took place on pit road, either through fuel strategy, quick stops or in the case of the caution flag on lap 137, a dose of good luck.

Hunter-Reay qualified 18th on Saturday but then was eighth quickest in final practice. Unfortunately, in the race, he struggled with the car “pushing” in the early going but after the first pit stop the car’s handling improved due to adjusting tire pressures and adding some front wing.

Once he got the handling a bit better, Hunter-Reay could run with the leaders but couldn’t pass anyone, which was the case for many of the competitors. He lost one lap on the track and then he lost a second lap when the caution flag came out after he had made a pit stop under green. The leaders were able to pit under the yellow.

Hunter-Reay finished 15th for the team’s best finish since the street course events in the beginning of what has turned into a very tough season for Foyt and his ABC Supply team.

Vitor Meira Video Update

Vitor Meira has taped a video update on his recovery progress which has been posted on indycar.com. You can check it out by clicking on:

Vitor's Vblog

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