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Wind to blame for practice chaos - Newgarden
Josef Newgarden suspects that strong winds were the main culprit in Friday's incident-laden Verizon IndyCar Series practice sessions at Barber. The afternoon session in particular was interrupted by crash-induced red flags, while several other drivers also slid off the track but managed to continue without hitting anything. "Today was very difficult with the wind conditions," said the Team Penske driver, who was fastest in the afternoon, but spun harmlessly at Turn 5 in the morning [main image]. "If you looked at the wind, it was kind of behind us today going into Turn 5, it was behind of going into Turn 12, and that's the most difficult wind direction you're going to drive...
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