On Sunday, moments after
Agustín Canapino finished his first race in an
IndyCar
oval 12th
, the conversation that the driver had with his team manager,
Ricardo Juncos
, was leaked to tell him what he had felt when he passed very close to the touch between Graham Rahal and Devlin DeFrancesco.
But he still needed to know how he had seen it, something that was revealed thanks to the video from the on-board camera.
"Here is the moment on the radio that went viral... at 360km/h, overtaking a car, in the middle of the battle at the end of the race, I managed to dodge the accident that happened right in front of me," wrote the man from Reef
in his Twitter account but it was the images that got all the attention.
In those
shocking 34 seconds,
the low visibility of the four-time TC champion and rookie in the most important single-post category in America was observed.
Also the moment in which his two rivals, a few meters away, touched each other, hit the wall and were left out of the competition in Texas.
"The adrenaline is huge and that's why my reaction when Rahal's blow with De Francesco happens. I can't explain the feeling to you, because I passed him like that - he said, briefly separating his thumb and index finger - and he was close to 370 kilometers per hour because It came in the suction tunnel.
I don't even want to think what would have happened if I hooked them at 370 km/h
".
In this dialogue with
Carburando Radio
, Canapino added: "So, you understand me, (the eggs) got up here (in my throat) and I couldn't get them down. It's really crazy. I can't lie to you, at the moment I said:
'
What am I doing here?
Why so much?'
".
In his analysis of the race,
the best rookie on the Texas oval
confessed that
he started "thinking about finishing"
.
"And I found that he had pace and on lap 185, despite losing a lot of time in the pits, he was in 11th place and he was ahead of Callum and with better pace than him. He was fighting with (Marcus) Ericsson, who last year I had won in Texas, and in front of (Hélio) Castroneves -NdR: four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500-. And at one point I thought: 'How crazy all this is'", commented the Juncos Racing
driver
.
"
I was learning a lot during the race
because I was understanding a lot of things, I started to play with the balance of the car and I was finding a rhythm until the yellow flag, which I
took with great caution, I did not risk too much and I fell behind a little
, about everything in that last relaunch that I got stuck with Castroneves. Look what we're talking about... with Castroneves," he added with surprise.
Awaiting his next performance,
on April 16 in Long Beach
, the 33-year-old multi-champion concluded that racing ovals "is an art."
"You have to drive very precise, very smooth, understanding the air flows. It got ugly in the first stints, until I interpreted it to pass cars at 350 km/h. The oval is an art. Driving on the track or
street
is technique, but in an oval it is art. Learning in the oval was faster because the technique of the circuits and the street is what costs me because I have zero experience, "he argued.
The intimate hand in hand between Canapino and Juncos at the time of the accident
-No no no no. I've never experienced anything like it, I'd tell you, how crazy.
-How do you come?
-Not good. I got stuck and Callum (Ilott) passed me again, I don't want to bother him, did you see?
-You've been making a run, idiot, a run. Impressive what you are doing. We are 12 and 13. There will be 20 laps left. We come very well.
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