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IndyCar tech inspection “a lot simpler” in 2018, says Blanch

Kevin Blanch, IndyCar’s technical director, says reversion to a universal aerokit in 2018 has made the rules easier to apply, but he expects tech inspection to get more complicated as IndyCar starts to open up development areas in 2019. Blanch, who joined the IndyCar technical staff 15 years ago, observed that new rules were hard to define with the 2015-’17 manufacturer aerokits, especially given the fact that a general technical rule change could favor one kit over the other. He told Motorsport.com: “There’s a lot less tooling now, that’s for sure. When we had manufacturer aerokits, we had double of everything, now we have single of everything, and similar to the way we had...
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