Christian Raston says, thank you so much for taking the time to talk.

Pilot of the number 21, Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet.

Thanks so much for coming on the WTF1.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited.

First of all, I want to congrats, say congratulations on your first IndyCar podium at the Bomarillo Automotive Group, 500 at Worldwide Technology Raceway. It is definitely not your first podium,

but it is your first NTT IndyCar Series podium, also finishing sixth in the Indianapolis

500 this year. You must be feeling really good given the form that you've had recently.

Yeah, we've had a pretty good run

especially on especially on the oval so i'm excited for a little bit more oval heavy schedule here

towards the end of the year um but yeah no i think we're we as a group are just getting better and

better by the weekend uh we had kind of a tough weekend at Rhode America.

We struggled to find the speed in the car.

Alex seemed to figure it out a little bit better for the race.

We were still struggling in the race a little bit.

But overall, as a package, I think we're heading in the right direction.

And, yeah, it's going to be an exciting second half of the

of the season yeah that was a question i was going to ask you later but i want to circle uh circle back

to now um your first indycar podium being on an oval you finished six at the indy 500 this year

are oval is your favorite style of track in indyCar over the road courses and the street tracks?

It's tough to pick out a favorite.

I really like the variety that we have an IndyCar, that you kind of have to be able to do all disciplines.

You have to do Oval's, Road courses, and Street courses.

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