{"id":205391,"date":"2026-03-15T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:18:11","slug":"red-flag-at-indycar-practice-after-workers-spotted-on-temporary-texas-street-course-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205391\/","title":{"rendered":"Red flag at IndyCar practice after workers spotted on temporary Texas street course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 IndyCar officials had to throw a red flag to freeze the cars as they were pulling out of the pit area for a second practice session Saturday when three workers were spotted on the hot track. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Practice for the inaugural Grand Prix of Arlington resumed after a delay of several minutes as IndyCar officials checked the temporary 2.73-mile, 14-turn circuit on the streets <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/indycar-arlington-penske-cowboys-rangers-118b6a78df93a47f2926b5e967053dee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">around the stadiums of the NFL\u2019s Dallas Cowboys and Major League Baseball\u2019s Texas Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The television broadcast showed the trio of workers who appeared to be part of a catering crew. One of them was pushing a catering cart in a spot between AT&amp;T Stadium, the Cowboys\u2019 home, and a nearby hospitality area.<\/p>\n<p>Cars practicing for Sunday\u2019s race hadn\u2019t yet gotten up to speed when the track breach was spotted.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 IndyCar officials had to throw a red flag to freeze the cars as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,9318,1816,113,35713,10743,7677,38990,16379,154,80716,27,429,1760],"class_list":["post-205391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-automobile-racing","tag-baseball","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nfl-football","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tx-state-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205391","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=205391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}