IndyCar will continue with shootout qualifying at street races

IndyCar qualifying on ovals is some of the most exciting motorsports on Earth. Qualifying, I’m saying. The racing is, too, but there is such incredible tension in watching one car cannonball all the way around an oval and watching the speed delta tick green and red. Is he gonna make it??? It’s absolute cinema.

This format does work on road and street courses, too, in certain series and situations. Supercars does it for some events, and the highlights belong up there with the race finishes. IndyCar suspects it might have some more cinema available by doing single-car, single-lap qualifying for the Fast 6 on street courses, and I’m glad they’re going to take the rest of the year’s street races to dial it in. But if it’s going to work, my god, someone at Fox has to figure out how to get a freaking sector time onto the screen.