IndyCar grid will probably shrink to 25 cars if Prema goes bust

It sounds like the meetings at IndyCar HQ about what to do about Prema have reached excruciating levels of specificity while they wait for answers. At this point, it’s virtually assured that Prema will miss the first race, but Boles & co. are holding the door open as long as possible for them to pull together a mostly-full-season entry as some new entity. Chances of that happening are pretty grim without a charter on offer, though, and Boles says that rather than let teams fight over Prema’s two grid spots for one-offs every round, they’d rather just reduce the grid to 25. What a shame that would be.