Kyle Larson 1-on-1: On historic Kansas finish, Indy 500 prep, advice for Kevin Harvick

Kyle Larson has to have a little bit of feeling that finally, it's here.

Larson announced in January 2023 that he would attempt to race in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day in 2024. He has had 17 months to prepare, and now the final two weeks are upon him.

The Hendrick driver will be among those practicing Tuesday for the Indianapolis 500, the start of an intense two weeks that he hopes culminates with 1,100 miles on May 26. 

Larson, whose Indy 500 ride (his series debut) is being fielded by Arrow McLaren with support from Hendrick Motorsports, spoke to FOX Sports on Saturday about his Indy 500 quest. We added two questions from the postrace news conference Sunday about being involved in another historic moment — winning by the smallest margin in Cup history, 0.001 seconds, over Chris Buescher at Kansas.

You said you thought you were going to go in the wall when battling with Buescher. I'm curious, do you feel like you were lucky or just really, really, really good?

Good to get to that point, to get to his outside, ... then good to stay there in the center of the corner, and then the rest of it, a little bit of luck for sure. I thought I was going to — just with the way these cars are aero-wise and all that, I thought I was just going to murder the fence off of [Turn] 4. I guess all of that. What do you think, was I lucky or good?

I don't know. Last year you were side by side and spun.

So I was bad then.

Are you a better driver now than you were a year ago here?

I don't know. It was different circumstances, but you always learn from every finish that doesn't go the way you want it to. But last year had no factor in the result [Sunday].

Looking at Indy, is there any part of you that's