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Ride Around The Intense IndyCar Street Course At Belle Isle Before The Race
Ride Around The Intense IndyCar Street Course At Belle Isle Before The Race-June 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:32

The Verizon IndyCar Series is on the street circuit at Belle Isle for the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit this weekend, and the second race of the doubleheader starts up . It’s always fun to get to see a race course from the viewpoint of the competitors, and this track makes for a rough ride—virtually, too.

Here’s an onboard with Dale Coyne Racing driver Conor Daly, which shows just how intense the 2.34-mile, 13-turn circuit can get:

Other than the raw intensity from the wind noise and shaky conditions, perhaps one of the coolest parts of the onboard shot is the view of the ever-complicated IndyCar steering wheel. We , and it is wild to think about the number of controls that drivers have to worry about while going .

Sebastien Bourdais won the first race of the weekend in Detroit, but a wreck in the Stadium Super Trucks event on Saturday—one of the support races for the weekend—. The second IndyCar race gets underway at 3:30 p.m. ET, but don’t worry about conflicts on your television schedule if you’re a NASCAR fan as well—the Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway will have to .

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