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Monday 23 april 2018

IndyCar

race goes

under red

flag with

track

conditions

By JOHN ZENOR
AP Sports Writer
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)
— Josef Newgarden ap-
plauded IndyCar's decision
not to risk 16 more minutes
on a treacherous, rain-
soaked track, even though
he could have been the
biggest beneficiary.
Other drivers weren't so
happy with earlier calls.
Newgarden will remain
up front at Barber Motors-
ports Park on Monday for
the completion of the Indy
Grand Prix of Alabama.
Drivers got in just over 44
minutes of a scheduled
2-hour, or 90-lap, race Sun-
day under heavy rain that
caused some cars to hy-
droplane and affected vis-
ibility.
The race was called before
it was halfway through,
and thus official.
"I was calling for us not to
run and I was in the easi-
est situation," Newgarden
said.
"I was leading the race,
had the best viewpoint.
We do another (16) min-
utes under caution and we
call the thing halfway from
a time standpoint, we pick
up the win. It's more ad-
vantageous for us to get it
in, but I didn't want to do
that.
I didn't think conditions
were right."
The 2-hour limit of total race
time will remain in place.
Newgarden started on the
pole position and led the
first 22 laps of a race he has
won two of the past three
years. San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili, left, drives against Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green during the second half of Game 4 of
a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in San Antonio, Sunday, April 22, 2018, in San Antonio. San Antonio won 103-90.
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