The 12th IndyCar race on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course – seems an age ago now – started in drizzle, went dry, the drizzle returned, and then it became full-on wet. It made for an intriguing event, which involved 471 passes – 362 for position – and there were 10 lead changes among six drivers, one of whom was Tatiana Calderon and none of whom was the polesitter.
As the rain increased over the final 15 laps of what became a two-hour timed race, the visibility for drivers naturally deteriorated, and according to several of them, the aeroscreen exacerbated the issue. IndyCar introduced the screen from the start of the 2020 season but aside from Spring Training at Circuit of The Americas in February, a two-car test at Barber and a qualifying session at Mid-Ohio that same year, the screen had not been trialed in the wet, and certainly never with cars en masse. GP Indy race saw 27 starters, and all but one were still running in the final stint: that’s a lot of spray.
