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INDYCAR: Saavedra ruled out of Indy 500

AFS Racing team owner Gary Peterson and driver Sebastian Saavedra have pulled the plug on their Indy 500 effort. The pair had been busy assembling a program since the Long Beach race in mid-April, which included Conquest Racing as the team to field the car on Peterson's behalf. Conquest owner Eric Bachelart went as far as picking up Peterson's Dallara DW12 chassis and equipment from Chip Ganassi Racing, which ran the car for AFS and Saavedra in 2015, and moving it into his Indianapolis-based shop. After assembling a list of all that would be required to update the chassis to Chevy's 2016 aero kit specifications, and the limited time left to rebuild the rest of the car ahead of Indy's...
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