Arrow In order to replace Alexander Rossi, who injured his thumb during Friday afternoon’s opening practice, McLaren is currently looking for a driver.
After getting hurt during the first practice on the Streets of Toronto, Alexander Rossi will not be able to compete for the rest of the weekend.
When the left-front of Rossi’s car clipped the tire barrier in Turn 8 and continued through into the wall at the corner exit, he was pounding the pavement around the 11-turn, 1.786-mile temporary street circuit at Exhibition Place. Rossi was running in the second group during the final stages of opening practice on Friday.
As Rossi got out of his car, he was observed taking off his right glove and gripping his hand and wrist, which raised the first of the session’s two red flags.
Despite being examined and cleared by IndyCar’s medical staff, Arrow McLaren acknowledged in a statement that he had a broken right thumb and had been pulled. In the session, he was the seventh fastest.
“Alexander Rossi was seen and released by IndyCar medical following an incident that resulted in contact with the Turn 8 wall during Practice 1 at the Ontario Honda Dealers Grand Prix,” the team said in a statement. The right thumb was broken as a result of the incident. This coming weekend, Alexander will not be able to compete.
In due course, Arrow McLaren will reveal the driver of the No. 7 Chevrolet for the remainder of the weekend.
At a post-practice media conference, Graham Rahal, driver of the No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, revealed that the area of the track that caught Rossi off guard has been repaved, making it more difficult. Rahal finished the session in 14th place.
Rahal of Turn 8 remarked, “So, they have new asphalt, which is still bumpy.” “It seems to enable you to break much more deeply or to have much greater confidence.
That simply indicates that the window is substantially smaller if you miss it. Turning into the corner, you leave the freshly laid asphalt behind. It resembles Iowa somewhat.
“Iowa, it’s great that the corners have been repaved, but I wish they had finished the entire thing or at least extended much farther into the straightaway to avoid the initial phase of the corner being on a transition as it was, which caught Marcus Ericsson and a few other guys off guard.”
Here, it’s comparable. When you reach the peak of (Turn) 8, you leave the newly installed pavement behind and enter the uneven asphalt and concrete. You’re moving quickly by the time you get inside. That is, however, a corner that has consistently done so.
“Even before, (Turn) 8 would have the highest number of accidents of any corner. It’s simply difficult one.