Driver Safety

03/02/20 • 36 min

As horrific as the Ryan Newman crash was in the Daytona 500, Mike Shank and Tim May talk about how far safety has come in auto racing, especially in the last 30 years. They touch on other subjects, too, in this latest edition of the At Speed Podcast brought to you by Rocky Fork Company.

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IndyCar testing, Penske ownership

Mike Shank was encouraged by his team's first IndyCar test of the season, at Circuit of The Americas outside Austin, is fired up about the changes Roger Penske is bringing to the Indy 500, and he and Tim May speak on who they like in the Daytona 500.

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The full-time dive into IndyCar racing is at hand

Mike Shank and his Pataskala-based Meyer Shank Racing team have been working for two decades for the upcoming weekend, the start of its first full-time season in the NTT IndyCar car series. As could be expected, Shank is excited as the team preps to put driver Jack Harvey on the track Friday for the airport-street race in St. Petersburg, Fla. And as team owner Shank said to AtSpeedpodcast co-host Tim May, he expects his group to show it more than belongs as the year ensues.