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Jimmie Johnson’s Reaction Says It All as Colton Herta Avoids Major Crash With Will Power in Indianapolis
The Indianapolis Indy 500 testing hasn’t started well for Colton Herta and Will Power. IndyCar drivers took to the circuit of Indianapolis before Indycar comes here for the seasonal Grand Prix of Indianapolis 1 and Indianapolis 500.
A driver’s worst nightmare is spinning up off the apron into 220mph traffic.. Didn’t see this one coming.. glad no one was hurt. pic.twitter.com/YrYjJFcUyP
— Will Power (@12WillPower) April 21, 2022
Will spun while leaving the pit lane with his Chevrolet and drifted into Herta’s path in Turn 1 of the speedway. Even though Colton was able to avoid the Chevrolet, he soon spun in the short chute. However, apart from some minor damage, Colton’s Honda was brought to Gasoline Alley.
Marcus Ericsson who earlier avoided Helio’s crash once again succeeded in avoiding Colton’s sliding Honda. The combination of cold and windy temperatures combined with penetrant risked the situation. Penetrant is used to dry up the track and this here acted as the reason for the track being hard to drive at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Close calls today…. @12WillPower owes me a beer. pic.twitter.com/mcBOePnI43
— Colton Herta (@ColtonHerta) April 21, 2022
Both Colton Herta and Will Power shared their feedback on Twitter. The duo shared the videos of their drives and had mentioned each other for “beer”.
Will wrote on Twitter, “A driver’s worst nightmare is spinning up off the apron into 220mph traffic.. Didn’t see this one coming.. glad no one was hurt.” while his counterpart Colton put down, “Close calls today…. @12WillPower owes me a beer.”
“Scared the absolute daylights out of me.”@12WillPower talks about the incident late in the day that caused @ColtonHerta to hit the wall exiting Turn 1. #IsItMayYet | #Indy500 pic.twitter.com/8bFxEjNZl0
— Indianapolis Motor Speedway (@IMS) April 20, 2022
Jimmy Johnson further escalated the hype with ‘not just one beer, but three.’ All in all, Will stated after the drive that he was so scared that it got the daylights out of him. He also expressed that he’s glad as no one was hurt.
How has Will Power’s season been so far?
IndyCar goes to Grand Prix of Alabama next week. With Josef Newgarden leading the championship followed by Scott McLaughlin closely, Will Power is in 4th position.
Power is with 104 points with a podium place finish after three races and trails the leader by 16 points. As for Herta, he’s in 11th position in the championship standings with 59 points collected so far.
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The Series officials have temporarily stopped the run at the circuit to examine further. IndyCar Race Directors Jason Penix and Kyle Novak went on to the track to have a close look at the track conditions.
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