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３日目の予選はトップで通過！

予選も無事に終わりました！午前中に予選シュミレーションをして、ダウンフォースを減る度に車のバランス調整。今日のトップグリッドを争うJohnAndrettiはなぜか練習走行は出走せず、その時点で今日のトップは頂きだなと確信！恐らく、パンサーチームはうちらのタイムを見てから判断しようと思ってたのでは・・・？！？確かに、JohnAndrettiは昨日は予選セットに集中してたっぽいのであなどれないなとは思っていましたが、練習しなかったのはビックリ！？！

Done with the qualifying and we are in the field! In the morning we had 1hr to get ready for the qualifying run. We trimmed the car out a bit and adjusted to make the car work on today's condition. My biggest competition for the top spot was John Andretti and I was suprise he was not out there to practice. At that time, I had good confidence on being the quickest guy out there today. I figured Panther Racing guys didn't want to show us too much speed before qualifying and wanted to figure out what we can run out there.

練習走行で自分の納得いくスピードが出たので、すぐに予選アタック！コンディションもばっちりで、走り始めてから自己ベストのタイムもたたき出し、２２２．６マイルで今日の予選のトップ通過！トップって言っても２３位からのスタートですが・・・。でも、先週から出てれば間違いなくトップ１５に食い込めるスピードは持っていたと思うのでちょっと残念。でも、タラレバを言っても仕方ないので、今日の結果には満足！！車のバランスもいいので、決勝は本当に期待できると思います！！何よりも今日は一番で通過できたって事は本当に良かったと思います。明日はレースのシュミレーションをしてからピットストップの練習です。レースに備えて準備万端な状態で挑めれるように、明日も頑張ります！！

After several runs, I was pretty happy with the car and decided to give it a run. The condition was perfect when I went out and was able to post my fastest lap of the month and average of 222.6mph! It was well enough for the top spot of the day. Although being the quickest today...I will have to start from 23rd but I think we did an excellent job planning things and I am really happy with everything from the run. Only regret is...if we have started a week earlier, we could have been in top 15 for qualifying. Nevertheless, the car balance is good and I am really happy with how things are going. Tomorrow we will do more race sim runnings and will need to practice pit stops. We will try to get as much done tomorrow in order to be 100% prepared for the race!!