Graham Rahal, No. 02 McDonald’s Dallara/Honda/Firestone:  “I just don’t think that oval racing can get any more exciting than that.  The McDonald’s car was really good tonight.  And if people aren’t impressed with that race I don’t know what will impress them.  Chicago will be better because you can run three wide but the amount that we ran three wide in the last two stints of this race I think I passed more guys – both ways, forward and back – than I have in my whole oval racing career so I think that says a lot.  The cars were very comfortable to run side by side so I think they’ve done a very good job with the technical changes.  People can say what they want about Push to Pass but I was on it the last 10 laps and I came from a second back of those guys to get past the Ganassi guys so I would have to say that it works somewhat.  They were dicing it out up front but certainly the McDonald’s car was very good tonight and when we were on the button we were catching up so it works.”

 

·         FAST FACTS:  Was his second race here.  He started 20th and ran as high as 12th in the opening laps before gearbox failure ended his race after 28/200 laps and he retired in 25th…Highest start this season is two poles (St. Pete/street & Kansas/oval) and highest finish is third place at Richmond…Is ranked 9th in series points with 265.