IndyCar’s return to domed skids for the superspeedways will become a hot talking point in May. Bill Pappas, the series VP of Competition, explained the reasoning behind them to Motorsport.com’s David Malsher. Dallara’s domed skids are set to be added to the DW12 chassis (now officially called IR15 and IR16 since aero kits were introduced last year) at this year’s Indianapolis 500, Texas 550 and Pocono 400. These have not been seen on IndyCars since 2011, the last year of the previous spec chassis, the Dallara IR09. The idea of these devices, which bulge downward, is to slow down the rotation of the car once it gets into a spin. With a flat undertray, when a car got sideways at...
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