Times wires
Friday, April 8, 2011
Experiment in progress
IndyCar began having two-wide restarts on road courses last month in St. Petersburg, with temper-inducing results. The debate within the series is still ongoing … and going. Series president of competition Brian Barnhart said he spent three hours Thursday with the three-man drivers' advisory panel discussing the issue, then all 26 drivers talked about options in a 20-minute meeting Friday before practice for Sunday's Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. Driver Scott Dixon had a pretty simple take: "When the green flag goes, we all get a bit stupid."
Number of the week
11 Sprint Cup races at night this season, starting with tonight at Texas and including the exhibition All-Star race. Tonight's race is the first Cup race in Fort Worth to be run under the lights.