IndyCar Series track records are set to be shattered this weekend at the repaved Laguna Seca, with the only unknown being by how much.
, who ended third on the timesheets in the test at 0.2355s behind his Penske teammate’s pace-setting lap, logged a session-most 80 tours and soaked up every one of them around the 11-turn, 2.238-mile natural terrain road course.“It's like I said to all the guys when I came in, 'This is exactly why I went IndyCar racing.’ It's such an awesome, like, grip and feel and commitment. Super awesome.
On the softer alternate, red sidewall tires, his expectation is hitting into the 1m6s range, pending the expected track evolution. “Potentially,” McLaughlin said. “The hard thing about a place like this is when you have like a new surface, the surface gets rubbered in on the racing line, so we don't know how it's going to race with passing.
“The deg created so many different passing opportunities that we probably shouldn't have on this track. Now with the new resurface and the speeds that we're hitting and the brake distances are shorter, I think that it might be a little harder.”’s Pato O’Ward compared the feeling of driving on the new surface to Barber Motorsports Park.
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