Kurt Busch slammed the Turn 2 wall at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the right side of the Andretti Autosport car at 1:35 pm. today. Busch got out of the car under his own power. Busch was following a group of cars in race-preparation practice when the car wiggled and then shot to the wall as he tried to save it from crashing. It was a big hit. ‘Settling into the race trim and the draft and the tows that you get and I was starting to feel comfortable,’ he said. ‘Maybe that’s where I made the mistake of letting my guard down or settling into that long-run-type of mentality whereas with an Indy car you have to be on edge. You have to keep track of where you are at all times and the adjustments in the car. Maybe I didn’t keep up with keeping the car underneath me. Trying to get into that rhythm and feel other things around you and I got behind on my adjustments in the car.’ Busch, a rookie in this Indianapolis 500 field, is scheduled to start 12th in Sunday’s 500, but this car would seem to be destroyed. Team manager Kyle Moyer put the possible rebuilding of the car at ’50-50.’ Using another car in this circumstance will not cost Busch his position. Moyer said the team has spare cars back at the shop on Zionsville Road.(Indianapolis Star)(5-19-2014)
