More testing for IndyCar speedway kits following Indy 500 crashes
IndyCar plans to hold ongoing testing before the remaining high-speed oval events to ensure that an inherent aerodynamic problem is not behind the string of practice crashes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Sunday's Indy 500 qualifying was heavily condensed after meetings between the series and representatives from the teams and manufacturers following Ed Carpenter's accident earlier that morning.
The CFH driver's car flipped after spinning up the track and into the wall at Turn 2; the third car to overturn during an accident within the space of a week.
All three cars were using the Chevrolet aero kit, however the series is yet to determine whether the problem is specific to Chevrolet, or indeed, whether it can be conclusively determined that the three accidents are related at all.
Relatively little track testing was conducted with the Indy configuration of the speedway aero kits ahead of the Month of May, and Derrick Walker, IndyCar's president of competition and operations, confirmed that more track time was planned before the series moved on to similarly fast venues such as Texas, Fontana and Pocono.
"Most definitely," Walker said. "It will go as long as it takes to get the answers we need.
"Both our manufacturers are working very closely with us.
"That's one of the reassuring things of this whole exercise, how they've rallied around and put all their resources behind looking at how to understand it more, so I would see that continuing."
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