New car adds new twist to Indy's venerable Brickyard

[Mike]

Perhaps no track on the Sprint Cup circuit demands more of the automobile than storied Indianapolis. The sharp, 90-degree corners at the 99-year-old facility require the kind of hard braking usually found only at much smaller venues. The long, 3,300-foot straightaways place a tremendous strain on engines and a tremendous premium on horsepower. There are no restrictor plates to govern the motors, there's no banking to help add grip. Its difficulty lies in its inherent austerity, a two-and-a-half-mile rectangle of asphalt as flat, narrow, and featureless as they come.

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