Rahal warns IndyCar rivals “our race car is better than our qualifying car”

Polewinner Graham Rahal has raised the stakes with a brazen statement to rivals in the paddock ahead of today\u2019s IndyCar race at Portland International Raceway.

to victory in 2018. In 2021, Rahal led 36 laps before being caught out by a strategy play that relegated him to 10Rahal’s last IndyCar win came at Detroit in 2017, when he won both races in a double-header weekend.

And although the favored strategy in recent years has been with the alternates, Rahal teased it could be different for the 110-lap race.“Obviously the track temp and everything should be cooler tomorrow. This race has always been a red race, traditionally has, and I think we might see some different stuff this year, which is why we were keeping all those blacks, frankly, to be able to go into the race with. We'll see what happens.”Photo by: Michael L.

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