Yasukawa needs to find some speed

Roger Yasukawa said he wasn't happy about the speeds his car posted during Thursday's practice for the Indianapolis 500.
He had the slowest time of the 35 cars on the track. Only 33 cars will start the race. Yasukawa, driving the No. 98 car for Beck Motorsports, has not qualified for the race and will get his chance Saturday.
"I'm not very happy about not being up the (speed) chart but then again, you need to do the basics right in order to go fast," said Yasukawa, a driver from Los Angeles. "It's going to take us another day, really throughout the day (today), to get up to where we need to be. But I'm very confident we can get the job done."
Yasukawa has been with Beck Motorsports for only three days. He agreed to a deal to drive the team's car on Wednesday. Rain washed out most of the practice session on Wednesday.
"We got more laps in (Thursday)," Yasukawa said. "We're still going through some fundamental stuff to make the car go faster. So we're not quite there yet before we start trimming the car out."
Yasukawa's best lap on Thursday was at 217.490 mph.
"Again, we're making sure we have the right platform because you have to have a good platform in order to trim the car down," Yasukawa said. "Without that you're pretty much wasting time. We're spending a lot of time looking through the data and making sure we have what we need."