Ed Carpenter Racing will prepare a backup car for Rinus VeeKay after Friday night’s big crash that did extensive damage to his No. 21 Chevy when it was hit from behind by Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Racing’s Colton Herta as the field bunched up on an aborted restart. “It’s just easier to go to the spare car than to try and hodge-podge something together to fix the one we crashed,” ECR team manager Tim Broyles told RACER. IndyCar’s rules do not allow teams to have more than one engine in their possession for each entry. As a result, VeeKay’s crew made quick work of outfitting the new No. 20 with the undamaged 2.2-liter twin-turbo V6 Chevy that was involved in the incident....
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