FORT WORTH, Texas -- Helio Castroneves has no desire to be airborne and upside down again at Indianapolis. And IndyCar is making changes in hopes of preventing those kinds of scary flips at high-speed tracks.
"For safety, that's what we're looking at," Castroneves said during testing Tuesday in Texas that included curved plates affixed to the bottom of cars to help prevent them from flying into the air after spins. "It doesn't matter what car it is."
Those domed skid plates are among significant changes the IndyCar Series has made since last year, when Castroneves, Josef Newgarden and Ed Carpenter -- all driving Chevrolets -- went airborne in separate incidents at the Brickyard leading up to the Indianapolis 500 last May.