Race right now to 1070thefan.com and listen to the replay of last night's Carb Night Burger Bash edition of Trackside HERE. You'll hear Beaux Barfield -- aka Beauxford T. Justice, aka IndyCar Chief Steward and Race Director -- say that the days of the chief steward worrying about drivers crashing on restarts are over.
Suddenly, drivers are responsible for not tearing up their own cars. What a concept! Here's what Barfield said:
"I think the former regime tended to take too much responsibility in terms of what they thought would be the blame if there was turn 1 incident. To me. If there’s a turn 1 problem, I’m hands off. It’s not my problem. I didn’t crash the cars. So … this side of the green flag where I get them in order. It’s all me. That side of the green where they drive into turn 1 that’s all them. So it’s responsibility on the drivers that they have responded to very well this year that I think you’ll see a much better start."
Welcome, new sheriff. I just about wept when I heard that. Oh, and double-file restarts are most likely coming back to the Indy 500 in 2013.
Carry on.
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