Where did Kyle Larson qualify for Indianapolis 500? 'Gets sketchier' each time for NASCAR star
Not that he enjoyed the process.
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"I don't like qualifying here. It gets sketchier every time you go out," he said after his second qualifying run at 231.326 mph over four laps.
His first qualifying attempt of 230.053 mph left him in 27th place.
"It's good to get through it. I wish I had more speed," he said then. "Just get after it."
It's been an eventful week for the Cup star attempting the double — completing the Indy 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. He crashed in Fast Friday practice. The day before that, he evaded a spinning Christian Rasmussen.
Larson has made it clear that Cup is his priority this year. He has said he will make sure to get to Charlotte for the Cup race, even if it means leaving the Indy 500 early. If Larson leaves pre-race, 2013 race champ Tony Kanaan would hop into the car and start 33rd.
Who raced in both Indy 500 and NASCAR on same day?
Larson is the sixth driver to attempt the Double, though just four have driven in both on the same day:
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John Andretti: 1994, 10th at Indy, 36th in Cup.
Robby Gordon: '97, Indy was postponed by rain; 2000, 6th at Indy, 35th in Cup; '02: 8th at Indy, 16 in Cup; '03, 22nd at Indy, 17th in Cup; '04, stepped out of Indy during a rain delay in favor of Jaques Lazier, finished 20th in Cup.
Tony Stewart: 1999, 9th at Indy, 4th in Cup; 2001, 6th at Indy, 3rd in Cup, becoming the first driver to complete 1,100 miles.
Kurt Busch: 2014, 6th at Indy, 18th in Cup.
Davy Jones tried in 1995, but he failed to qualify for the Cup race.
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