Augustine Canapino reflects on his first time on an oval in IndyCar

The Argentine driver, who finished 12th in his first time on an oval in the IndyCar, spoke again to the clash between Graham Rahal and Devlin DeFrancesco: I don’t want to imagine what would have happened if I hooked them at 370 kilometers per hour.

Augustine Canapino told his feelings after the very good presentation on the second date ofl IndyCar, which marked his first race in the traditional ovals of the American category.

canapino finished 12th at Texas Motor Speedway, in Fort Worth, in a race with several accidents and one of them caused the Argentine driver to assure that the sensation was “So crazy that my balls rose to my throat. And I said to myself: what am I doing here?

The arreciefeño referred to the incident that the Americans carried out Graham Rahal y Devlin DeFrancesco: “I passed very close to the cars of the two. I don’t want to imagine what would have happened if I hooked them at 370 kilometers per hour”.

Canapino, the fervor that it generates in Argentina and the desire to go for more

Hopefully we can start fighting important things. We know it’s difficult, but we’re going to try.” Canapino stood out, who until now finished in both competitions in 12th place.

“Today we are far away. But we talked to Ricardo (Juncos), who is crazy cute and we are going to try to do everything possible to move forward ”, He said in an interview with ‘Carburando Radio’ and acknowledged that he did not expect to generate so much expectation in Argentina.

“The truth was that I didn’t realize it because I thought that half banked me and the other half didn’t,” expressed the four-time champion of Road Tourism and continued: “However, now that I am here and no one knows me, the messages that come to me from Argentina are many. I can’t answer them.”

The Titan thanked the support received last Sunday in the state of Texas by “A band of Argentines who came to cheer me on, with a flag and everything. I am infinitely grateful.”

Canapino has 36 points in the tournament and the leader is the Mexican Pato O’Ward with 82 points, followed by the Swede Marcus Ericsson (75); the New Zealander Scott Dixon (67), the American Josef Newgarden (66) and the Spanish Alex Palou (60).

The third IndyCar competition will take place on Sunday the 16th of this year on the street track in Long Beach, California.