The track’s green from overnight rain, ambient temperatures are expected to reach 94 degrees, and the cars are already a handful. But here’s why the racing was always going to look different from what we’ve been used to. “It’s so hard to pass,” became a refrain we all got used to hearing from drivers and race engineers over the course of practice for the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500. Some even modified it to “It’s too hard to pass.” Most complaints, inevitably, came from those who didn’t feel their cars were quick enough. “Good,” said one engineer with a quick car. “Now you can’t have a slow car but just sit in the slipstream of a fast car, save fuel,...
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