The weekend opened on a sour note for Andretti when the team learned Friday morning that rookie Devlin DeFrancesco had been penalized for his role in a crash last month at Texas.
Pato O'Ward, Jimmie Johnson and Rinus VeeKay hit the wall, Scott McLaughlin and Scott Dixon both spun and Tatiana Calderon and Dalton Kellett both went off course. Herta spun off course in Friday's only practice session, which was led by Simon Pagenaud. Believe me, we're on it, but how do you tell somebody not to make a mistake? Some guys you need to push, and some guys you don't need to worry about, it's such a weird thing to try to manage." "We can't be making mistakes if we want to win the championship. "I'm frustrated because we've had competitive cars but we're shooting ourselves in the foot, which is exactly what we said we can't do," Andretti said. Herta, who is from nearby Valencia and considers Long Beach his home race, won last year while Alexander Rossi won in 20. It will take an error-free run Sunday for an Andretti driver to win Long Beach for a fourth consecutive year. Team Penske swept the first two races while the Andretti group attempted to address the hiccups that have slowed them at the start of this season. He would have won that race, easy."Īnd its been mistakes, Andretti said, that sent Andretti Autosport into the Long Beach Grand Prix winless through the first two races of the season. "The mileage he had to make, and still hold on to fourth, that had to be one of the best drives ever for him. "I don't know how he even finished the race," Andretti said Friday. Instead, Herta was forced to conserve gas around the streets of downtown St. Herta finished fourth in the Ind圜ar season-opener, a race Andretti said his young driver easily would have won if not for a fueling error made by his team. (AP) - The best drive of Colton Herta's life, according to his boss, wasn't even a win.
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