![]() He added: “I’m definitely not upset about it, and don’t think that Colton or Bryan or Scott are.” Kirkwood also confirmed he hadn’t been told why this change had been made, saying “I asked, is there a reason why? They just said we think this is going to be the best thing moving forward”. ![]() We’ve got to push that behind us and look forward now.” “We just got stuck in very unfortunate scenarios, all of us. “I don’t think they did a bad job at St Pete though, that’s not why what occurred, happened. “They’re just strategists, right? We’re just moving them around and it’s going to be the same outcome on different cars maybe now. “The race strategy wasn’t really what ruined us,” Kirkwood said. But it’s not my decision,” he concluded.Īfter his qualifying run, Kirkwood also joined reporters and said the decision wasn’t down to a poor race in St Petersburg for Andretti.Īt the season-opener, Romain Grosjean was taken out while fighting for the win, Herta was taken out by Will Power, Devlin DeFrancesco was violently crashed into on the first lap and Kirkwood was involved in his own airborne incident. “I think in a perfect world you’d make it so that we can start the year. He also answered a question many onlookers will have when seeing this change: why was it made after the first race and not ahead of the season. “But do I think any of those situations would have changed the result of the race? No.” That’s all I’ll say.”Īsked if the sometimes tense tone on the radio between father and son had been one of the reasons for the change, or if the team felt Bryan would be a good addition to Kirkwood’s line-up, Colton added: “I don’t know, that’s a better question for Andretti on why they’ve changed it. ![]() Herta was asked a succession of follow-up questions by reporters to try to unpick the situation.Īsked whether he asked for the change, he said no and reiterated that it was a team decision.Īsked if he would have been happy with Bryan continuing to work with him, he replied: “It’s the team’s decision. There will be a little bit of a transition but he’s good and I believe in him.” “Obviously it might be a little different in the race when there’s a lot going on. “Usually when you transition with something like that there’s a lot of hard pieces to put together and the language is different of what you want to hear versus what he’s saying. Scott’s been pretty much on the same page, speaks the same language which is good. “It’s a team decision,” Herta told a group of reporters including The Race, clearly a little uncomfortable with the topic. There’s a vibe in the Andretti side of the paddock that this is a non-story and it’s just a simple bid to switch things up and best serve its drivers.īut saying it is a “team decision” without any other detail has certainly piqued the interest of those on the outside trying to establish why this has happened, and why now? ![]()
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