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IndyCar drivers uncertain how aeroscreen will work at Texas

INDIANAPOLIS -- Graham Rahal admits he is nervous about Saturday's race.

He is a little leery about opening the IndyCar season at one of the series' trickiest tracks -- without testing, with limited practice time and revised tire rules. He is also curious how IndyCar's newest safety feature, the windscreen, will perform in its long-awaited and long-delayed debut.

"This is going to be a first for us -- the glare, the pitting, does it get beat up on an oval, just the visibility standpoint, the heat, all of these things on an oval," Rahal said. "We just don't have any answers for that.