Indianapolis Motor Speedway Conducts First In-Season Test

Dale Coyne's Justin Wilson takes first laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during Wednesday's test. Here, when one looks at the back wing area of the DW12, one can see the changes to the aerodynamics of the body work - rear-wheel guards that are taller and the wing panel is laid down near flat. Image Credit: IMS

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Conducts First In-Season Test

The DW12, by all accounts, is hitting the marks that are placed before it at every point. With two races, one on a temporary street and another on a closed road course with elevation changes through the back country rolling hills East of Birmingham, Alabama, completed with positive and some surprizing results along the way ... the biggest growing question developing was, OK, what will this platform and formula do on the most famous super speedway oval in the world?

On Wednesday several teams took to the track in Speedway, Indiana and held first in-season track test to shake down set ups of the DW12 in full Speedway trim. This configuration features new rear-wheel guards that are taller, lighter and have a slightly different shape than the sets being used on the road/street circuits as well as what will be used on the oval races at Texas Motor Speedway, Iowa Speedway and The Milwaukee Mile.

Street/Road course configuration shown here as E.J. Viso, Ryan Briscoe, and Rubens Barrichello try to gain advantage on each other through a corner at Barber Motorsports Park during the Honda Indy Grand Prix. Notice the rear wing area and the differences with the lead posting photo. Image Credit: IICS

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Andretti Hits 218.6 At Indy Test
By Robin Miller - Posted April 04, 2012

Marco Andretti (Chevy), Scott Dixon (Honda) and Kanaan (Chevy) all topped 218 mph during the roughly six hours of running but that came courtesy of some help in traffic.