Porsche is changing the chassis on the #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 after Kevin Estre’s crash in qualifying, the Frenchman has confirmed.
Estre crashed the car in the early minutes of Thursday’s Hyperpole session by hitting the barriers at Indianapolis with the rear of the car, bringing out a red flag.
“Yeah, we changed the chassis,” Estre told MotorsportWeek.com on Friday. “We’ll be ready in time. This is clear. Our guys are on it. They are really good and the Porsche is a very good car to work on, when I when I listen to the guys. So I think this is going to be no issue.
“Just the question mark is changing your chassis is a lot of parts and and it’s a different chassis. So there might be some differences. And then we just have the warmup to figure out these differences.”
Estre’s crash, and the subsequent class pole position for HubAuto Racing’s Dries Vanthoor brings to an end a run of three consecutive pole position by the French driver.
The Frenchman was disappointed at the outcome, especially as he believed a fourth pole position could have been on the cards had he not crashed.
“I am a type of driver which often takes maybe a bit more risk than the others, and that brings me some extra speed or some extra credit sometimes and it bites me sometimes. Yesterday was that kind of day.”
“We got three poles this year in WEC, all the poles possible and it was possible to do it again yesterday. We had the pace, but I didn’t make it through. This is the risk you take when you do qualifying and you try to go all in.”
“It was maybe not the correct way of doing it, looking afterwards. But if I would have finished the lap, it would been good. It happened. It’s a shame that it’s so close to the race day, that we just have the warm up to now figure out the car we have.”
