All bets were off at the conclusion of Las Vegas’ second practice session. The roulette wheel landed on red twice in the final 20 minutes of the session, slashing the available low-fuel, soft-tyre running as a manhole cover at Turn 17 was suspected to have slipped its moorings. Much to your relief, dear reader, we’ll leave the mixed gambling metaphors there for this weekend.
Although a 15-minute inspection of the reportedly-loose drain cover by race control hadn’t detected anything immediately wrong, barely four of the remaining six minutes of the session had run before proceedings were closed out again with the second red flag; movement had been detected as the cars ran over the offending cover. Expect Nevada’s local welders to do a bit of business overnight to give the other manhole covers around the circuit the once-over…
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