Marcus Armstrong, Colton Herta has races after hard accidents at Indy

Bob Pockrass

Fox Motorsports Insider

Indianapolis -the racing driver of Meyer Shank, Marcus Armstrong and Andretti -Global driver Colton Herta, but had big horrors in brutal accidents on Saturday, but were released to try to make the Indianapolis field 500.

Herta's car rose after turning and in the air after he had hit the wall during his qualification. He was clarified shortly after his accident. Armstrong used to have a crushed blow in practice and had to wait for almost five hours before he cleared the crew of the brain.

Herta was the crash, which looked more frightening, flew out of the halo that covers the driver's head when the car drove on the roof.

“It happened so quickly, you know, you don't notice,” said Herta that the car was around and on its side. “It's just shit because it only makes the second impact so much larger.”

Armstrong, a 24-year-old driver from New Zealand, said that he had clarified all X-rays and conceals of the brain.

“I feel good,” said Armstrong, before I joked, “I feel a bit hungry. I could make a coffee.”

The car was destroyed and Armstrong has to drive a converted tram car.

“I assume that I will be flat in curve 1 and 2 in the first round,” said Armstrong. “I am confident that we can do the field.”

Armstrong will be among the four drivers – Marco Andretti, Jacob Abel and Rinus Veekay are the others – on the last day of qualifying on Sunday, fight for the last three places. Herta put his backup car on the field and begins 29 ..

“This place doesn't startle me at all,” said Herta before his qualification run. “If you have a car ready for me, I would go flat now. I think the nervousness would come from what this car looks like compared to the other? We have no idea.”

After qualifying, Herta confirmed this feeling because he never had the chance to shake off the backup car before qualifying (the same thing was for Armstrong, whose qualification run was not fast enough to crack the top 30). When he started his qualification run, Herta had no idea whether the car would be fast enough.

“It is really just a guess to be honest if they are brought to this position,” said Herta. “You have to be flat [out]. It's just a kind of hope that everyone did their job.

“I have a lot of confidence in my boys. … I have no problem hit the wall here and have big as it is today. It doesn't feel good and it is shit, but it doesn't startle when I come back in the racing car.”

While the drivers fought against significant wind on Saturday, none of the drivers blamed the wind.

Armstrong: “I had clearly expected a lot more when I arrived in curve 1 than what there was. However, I have the feeling that we didn't understand everything correctly. So it is what it is. My first reaction, I hope I was fine because I thought it was a bit worse than it was and I hoped that I was not seriously injured.”

Herta: “It was suddenly. How the wind was, it shouldn't have been possible [on the side] Because of a gust of wind. I think we are just too [riding the car] From first on the nose. As soon as I turned myself into turn [Turn] 1, it was just gone. “

Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. He has spent decades of reporting motorsports, including over 30 daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, the Nascar scene magazine and the (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @Bob.

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