INDY 500: Eddie Cheever sixth fastest for the day as qualifying approaches
17 May 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
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Cheever: "We made some changes to the back end of the #51 Excite@Home Infiniti, and the car is a little bit better. The wind changes constantly here. This morning it was pushing to the north, so you're almost eight miles an hour faster on one straightaway than the other. The car is running well, though -- so far, so good. We're continuing to put miles on the #51 Excite@Home car and we made a lot of progress today. The cars are all very close and we're just slugging away, one day at a time. You just try to learn something every time you go out. In the afternoon, we went out to shake down the spare car that I crashed on Saturday, but we had an engine problem and that ended our day."
(On the rain delay): "The rain allows you to sit down and go through all the data instead of being out on the racetrack. You can study it instead of just accumulating it. In the beginning, it used to frustrate me, but it doesn't anymore. There's nothing you can do about it. You just need to use the time to your advantage, and go around and look at data, trying to figure things out."
Primary Sponsorship of the #51 Indy Car comes from Excite@Home. The company is based in Redwood City, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley. Associate Sponsors of Team Cheever include Infiniti, Firestone, Indy Promotional Products, Menards, Bosch, Pennzoil, Sony Disc Manufacturing, and Nancy Flowers Promotions.
Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) is the leading broadband online service provider, offering residential and commercial broadband services worldwide through the Company's 15,000 mile Internet backbone. The company has a global footprint of 87 million broadband homes under long-term contract. Excite@Home offers consumers broadband services over cable-modem, DSL and wireless connections, and businesses high-speed commercial services with Excite representing the consumer content experience and @Home providing access in local markets through broadband connectivity partners. Excite@Home has approximately 13.5 million cable franchise homes under contract outside of North America and localized versions of the Excite service in 10 leading international markets.
Text provided by Ashleigh Higgins
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