Transport, building, loading and unloading are among the tough tasks done by crew members involved in this weekend’s races.<\/p>\n
ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Before the drivers start their engines, hundreds of IndyCar crew members are fast at work with the Grand Prix of Arlington ready to debut\u00a0this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one seems like it\u2019s gonna be fun,\u201d said Kyle Tetlow, a truck driver for Andretti Global.<\/p>\n
The setup process begins long before cars touch the track.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the week, teams load up the gear and cars into transporters before hitting the road to that week’s destinate.<\/p>\n
For Tetlow and Andretti, it was a 14-hour drive to Arlington, Tex.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnload the trailers, set the tent up,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s our garage area for the weekend. This is going to be our home base.\u201d<\/p>\n
On this day, Tetlow helped guide the No. 27 car driven by Kyle Kirkwood\u00a0down a lift gate and into the team\u2019s paddock space.<\/p>\n
The IndyCars remain on tow tires during transport \u2014 specialized tires designed for loading and unloading \u2014 with the racing tires only installed once the car reaches the circuit.<\/p>\n
Mike Russell, an Andretti pit crew member who handles refueling duties for Will Power’s No. 26 car, said preparation continues as soon as the trucks arrive.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the mechanics working on the car, from us getting all the pit equipment to the track, doing the tent \u2014 there\u2019s a lot of pre-work that goes into this before we race,\u201d Russell said.<\/p>\n
While the drivers receive most of the glitz and glamor, trips to victory lane are not possible without the dozens of crew members working tirelessly behind the scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transport, building, loading and unloading are among the tough tasks done by crew members involved in this weekend’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-202427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}