Castroneves, defending race-winner, who last year joined AJ Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears in the four-time Indy winner ‘club’ had run 10 laps of the two-hour session. He was sitting second fastest to Conor Daly’s Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet, when as he emerged for another run, he spun on the warm-up lane that follows pit exit.
The fuchsia and black car looped into a spin over the grass on the inside of Turn 2, and crossed the track to make heavy contact with the outside wall with the right side of his car.
Castroneves looked devastated but unhurt after alighting from the MSR-Honda, and the car was carried via flat-bed truck back to the MSR garage on Gasoline Alley.
The accident followed a far more innocuous incident on the warm-up lane this morning for another Indy 500 winner, Alexander Rossi. The #27 Andretti Autosport-Honda spun after straightening up for the little spurt along the inside of the track’s short chute, but Rossi managed to avoid the inside wall and…
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