It’s a sensational situation: Within 24 hours, two IndyCars equipped with Chevrolet aero kits took flight at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the short chute exiting the first turn of the legendary 2.5-mile oval. Practice for the 99th Indianapolis 500 has had more big accidents from Monday through Thursday than I can remember for all of last year’s meeting. This is the first year of use for Chevrolet and Honda aero kits, and it’s bound to have its ramifications. The aero kits change how cars can work around one another and how they react to the oval track and its considerable, hour-by-hour climate changes. You can’t simulate Indianapolis in the vacuum of CFD (computational fluid...
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