Brad Keselowski test drives Indy car for Team Penske at Road America

Keselowski takes a spin in Simon Pagenaud's Team Penske rideBrad Keselowski, a 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, turned his first laps in an Indy automobile today as partial of a multi-team test during Road America, a 4.048-mile permanent road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, which will play host to a Kohler Grand Prix, a subsequent eventuality on a Verizon IndyCar Series schedule June 24-26.Keselowski, motorist for TeamPenske in NASCAR,climbed into a No. 22 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet of teammate Simon Pagenaud late in a afternoon of a full day of contrast which included 11 cars. The 32-year-old Keselowski enjoyed a experience."I've always wanted to expostulate an Indy car, we consider (Penske Racing president) Tim Cindric knew that," Keselowski said. "The opportunity came up to drop my toes in a H2O as well as kind of enhance my knowledge bottom as well as put it in a back of my mind for wherever it goes, we don't know. But it was a heck of an opportunity as well as I'm glad to have a chance."Pagenaud ran a couple of corruption laps in a automobile before branch it over to Keselowski."First thing we told Simon (after a test) is he has a very secure job, during slightest from me," Keselowski said. "I've got a lot of apply oneself for him as well as his team, everyone during Team Penske. This (No.) 22 Menards team, they did a great pursuit today as well as we had a lot of fun starting with them. Simon was fast, really quick as well as gave me a great rabbit to chase. we learned a ton today as well as had a lot of fun. I've got to let it soak in here to consider about all of it. It was a heck of a day here during Road America."Keselowski quickly noticed a disproportion in a handling as well as braking abilities of an Indy automobile compared to a stock car."It certain was getting in a corners a lot deeper," he said. "I consider a Indy automobile just pulls so many G's through a center of a dilemma as well as in a brake zone. You have to build certainty in it since a stock automobile does all it can to mutilate your certainty as well as in a Indy automobile it's important to have confidence. So we have to kind of unlearn all we learned in a stock automobile to be great in these cars. That's a heck of a process though a fun one."It's positively a opposite feel, trying to get acclimated to a opposite chair as well as we gaunt back more. we was kind of sitting in Simon's chair as well as it doesn't always fit we perfect, so it wears we out flattering quick. But it's a great way to get ragged out." Keselowski pronounced which a single tip to success in an Indy automobile is gaining certainty in a automobile in a turns. Photo by IndyCar By Autoweek Staff


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