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Belli encouraged by IndyCar safety upgrades after Sato crash

IndyCar's technical department was encouraged by its findings after examining the new 2018 side impact safety structures that were put to the test during Takuma Sato's big crash last week at Texas Motor Speedway. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver slid high in Turn 2, hit the wall with the right side of his No. 30 Honda, then veered across the track and hit the inside wall at a high rate of speed before sliding all the way down to Turn 3, where another slight impact was made before the battered car came to a halt near the middle of Turns 3 and 4. In performing a postmortem on the heavily-revised Universal Aero Kit 18 sidepods that contain robust crash structures, IndyCar's Tino...
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