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- Updated: May 3, 2016
8:44 PM ET
FORT WORTH, Texas — Helio Castroneves has no desire to be airborne and upside down again at Indianapolis. And IndyCar is making changes in hopes of preventing those kinds of scary flips at high-speed tracks.
“For safety, that’s what we’re looking at,” Castroneves said during testing Tuesday in Texas that included curved plates affixed to the bottom of cars to help prevent them from flying into the air after spins. “It doesn’t matter what car it is.”
Those domed skid plates are among significant changes the IndyCar Series has made since last year, when Castroneves, Josef Newgarden and Ed Carpenter — all driving Chevrolets — went airborne in separate incidents at the Brickyard leading up to the Indianapolis 500 last May.
There also have been the additions of NASCAR-looking flaps behind the chassis and more tethers to keep pieces from flying off the car, like what happened at Pocono last August when British driver Justin Wilson was struck in the head by debris. He died the following day.
Helio Castroneves’ car flipped during practice for last year’s Indianapolis 500. Joe Watts/AP Images
Castroneves, Newgarden and Carpenter were among 15 drivers from five teams who took part in a daylong test at Texas Motor Speedway. There had been previous tests at California and …
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