The engine failures that ended Ryan Hunter-Reay’s Indy 500 practice two hours early today and struck Mikhail Aleshin yesterday are similar, but Honda Performance Development is not yet willing to share details. HPD race team leader Allen Miller told Motorsport.com: “They weren’t brand new engines but it’s early in life for them to be breaking. Aleshin’s has been shipped back [to Torrance, Calif.] for inspection. But looking at the data and the pieces, I’d say the problem looks very similar between the two.” While every car aside from the one-off entries was due to get a new engine for the race, Andretti Autosport and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports will fit those race engines...
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