“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

Currently, it’s a little difficult for Pippa Mann – walking with a slight limp -- to revel in the Kenji Miyazawa motivational statement taped to the concrete wall of the Dale Coyne Racing garage at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Figuratively, Mann’s thoughts 18 hours after a practice crash May 13 were much like components of her pink and white race car scattered on the garage floor. Yet she must maintain her mental focus for critical days ahead.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow, but we’re going to work hard. That’s the biggest thing, the amount of work it’s created for these guys,” said Mann, who is representing Susan G. Komen. “We don’t have a spare car sitting here, and even if we did it would have been a lot of work to get it ready.

“Then my job is going to be to get back with the program and go do the best possible job I can in qualifying with what we’ve got.”

With entries also for Carlos Huertas and JD Davison, the lone spare Verizon IndyCar Series safety cell was at Aerodine Composites in Indianapolis to repair a dent sustained in mid-March during the Promoter Test at Barber Motorsports Park.

A detail of Aerodine associates concentrated on the project May 14 to return the tub to the racetrack, and Mann and team manager Darren Crouser are hopeful of rebuilding the No. 63 entry in time to record a few laps late in the noon-6 p.m. (ET) session May 15 and prepare for May 16-17 qualifications.

Mann had turned a best lap of 226.301 mph of her 64 before the incident with about an hour left in practice.

“I can’t overstate how horrible I feel for these guys, but at the same time unfortunately it is a part of racing,” Mann said. “When you’re just off the big pack as I was and coming up to it, sometimes you’re in a position where you’re that little bit too far back to see what’s happening around the next corner and it just catches you. I think because I don’t get to race week in and week out I don’t have that experience level to draw from might have factored into it.

“But I’ve had some of the more experienced drivers reaching out to me and saying it could have happened to any of us.”

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