No cars had set a flying lap by the time the first incident occurred. Yesterday’s pacesetter Kyle Kirkwood was struggling with the brakes on his AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet, so after he let David Malukas’ Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Motorsports car by on his outside at Turn 7, he couldn’t slow down sufficiently and so went back down the inside of the bemused Malukas.
The pair made wheel-to-wheel contact and Kirkwood slid head on into the tire barrier, and Malukas went down the escape road.
