No apron at Indy until next year

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Delayed due to studies by NASCAR.

Seldom has an eight-foot-wide stretch of asphalt been so anticipated and yet so delayed.

But as preparations build for next month's NASCAR race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, track officials have decided another year must pass without the apron, the proposed racing room below the white boundary line in each corner.

The reason: NASCAR officials want time to study the effects of changes made to the track. The Brickyard 400 is July 27.

IMS had planned to begin apron installation June 9, the day after its vintage car weekend, but NASCAR thought that was too late.

"They asked if we could postpone (the project) so they could test it," IMS president Doug Boles said Tuesday. "We said, 'That makes sense; we understand that.' "

Full article: http://www.indystar.com/story/sport...n-delayed-year-give-stock-cars-room/11320587/
 
Sounds like a smart move to me.
 
I wish they'd leave the grass. I don't think the apron will improve the Cup racing at the Brickyard as much as people think.
 
KevinWI said:
I wish they'd leave the grass. I don't think the apron will improve the Cup racing at the Brickyard as much as people think.
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I'm not sure it will be much different if it's the same banking as the rest of the track as they plan rather than a progressive banking like it sort of was.
 
KevinWI said:
They actually had an apron there in the oldern days. They took it out in '92 and put in the grass and the warmup track inside that.

I had more bitching to do in this post but I decided to keep it to myself... for now anyway.
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YEP. If anything the apron is a return to history. Besides, we watched IndyCars run the wrong way on the frontstretch this May. The absence or presence of an apron ain't that big of a deal.
 
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