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Pre-Race Driver Briefing

The Brickyard 200 @ Indianapolis Motor Speedway
200 miles / 80 + 1 laps
Friday 28th September
Caution Speed - 125mph



The 3rd season of IndyCar is about to get underway and just like last year, the winter of racing will start with a double header at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, beginning this coming Friday with the Brickyard 200 which has kicked off both previous IndyCar campaigns. The team buses and trailers roll into Indianapolis with largely unchanged cars from last season aside from the altered transmission regulations allowing for more drafting at Indianapolis, which should make for some of the most frantic and exciting racing we've ever seen at the speedway. Rookie orientation has been completed and the defending champion held the pole round the 2.5 mile track for the preseason race, it remains to be seen whether anybody can snatch it from him for the season opener.

I once again have to remind you to thoroughly read the OP and all the rules on it; one issue we had was people pitting under caution during pre season. Once the caution is called you cannot enter pit lane until either Joe or myself declares it open. Doing so will result in a penalty. Also, take it easy during the opening laps. I know it's said too often but the race is never won in the first turn or at Indy, even with an overtaking move into turn 3 on the 37th lap. Just bide your time and spend as much of the race as possible going single file; the less two and three wide running we have through the corners, the less cautions we'll have. I'm not saying you can't go two and three wide through the corners, it just doesn't make sense jostling for position like that for the entire race. A better idea would be controlled slingshotting within your group so you're not fighting for position yet you're making up time. Good luck out there 👍

Tom McDonald
IndyCar Race Director