Kite and Carlson eye Indy 500 rides
JIMMY KITE: "I'm not real comfortable on Pole Day here. Bump Day is more my speed. I kind of got screwed this week with both of them being on the same weekend. Normally, I have pole weekend, and then I have that whole week to find me a job. They've shortened it from a week to 24 hours. Still, when you come out here, stuff happens. You know, I'd love to be in a car tomorrow. Hopefully, by 6 o'clock (Sunday), I am. If I'm not, you know, it wouldn't be the first time. If you'd have asked about four hours ago, I'd have said there's no interest whatsoever, but I think everyone is realizing that tomorrow is getting here, and there's some interest. Whether it happens, I don't know. I'm still here. I'm a little more excited now than I was, but we'll just wait and see."
TYCE CARLSON: "I'm just pounding the pavement right now. There's a couple of people talking about opening up another car later tonight or tomorrow, but it's all about money. But weird things happen. You know it's been 10 years ago from this weekend that I made my first IndyCar attempt here at the speedway, and it was a last-day, last-second deal. I was on pit road and somebody said, 'Hey, go get your stuff and get down here and get in a car,' so I know it can happen that way, and I'm going to be here until that gun sounds. You can't put the foot in front of the horse, or whatever the saying is, but you know, everybody knows, up and down the garage area, what cars might be available, so those are the people that I'm talking to. Obviously, the 33 car (Ganassi) is going to be open, but that's going to be a lot of money to get into. Dreyer & Reinbold might have another car, Foyt might have another car. Look what A.J. did with Felipe last year. I wasn't at a Babies 'R Us today, but I was at my kid's baseball game today and I sold a house today, so it's kind of the same thing. I was out working today, doing other stuff, so you never know."