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"Indy has four turns, all of the same radius. Turns 1 and 3 are supposed to be identical, and Turns 2 and 4 are supposed to be identical, yet it&amp;#039;s probably the most difficult track I&amp;#039;ve ever driven.   Some of that is because you make just the smallest movements at Indy. When you lift, you lift very slightly and very smoothly. You turn the steering wheel ever so slightly, no big inputs and the car responds. It looks on television like the cars are stuck, but trust me they are sliding a good portion of the time. You&amp;#039;re catching slides because you&amp;#039;re driving the car on the limit.   I&amp;#039;ve had several of the old timers say today&amp;#039;s cars are easy to drive, but I can assure you they&amp;#039;re not. The cars have less horsepower than they did 15 to 20 years ago, but as a result we drive them more on the limit. Arie Luyendyk\u2014not an old timer but a man who has driven the race cars then and now\u2014agrees that the current cars are as difficult to drive.   On a good qualifying lap your maximum to minimum speed differential from the end of the straight to the middle of the corner is probably only 5 to 8 mph.   Turn 1 is probably the trickiest corner on the track. Generally you&amp;#039;ve got a tail wind going in, so you approach it at higher speed. There&amp;#039;s a little hump and it tends to make the entry to 1 the loosest point on the track.   Again, you use very small movements turning the car in, trying to be gentle. Steering movements are a maximum of 10 degrees to the left turning in, but sometimes you&amp;#039;ll get 20 to 30 degrees of oversteering, which keeps you honest. Drivers will have different styles; Scott Dixon will turn in harder than I will.   Through the middle of Turn 1 you tend to have a bit of an oversteering moment, and you&amp;#039;ll catch the rear a couple of times in the middle...and the wall on exit comes up very, very quickly.   Entry to Turn 2 is obviously slower than the entry to 1 because it&amp;#039;s such a short straight. One of the only bumps on the track is on the exit of 2, and because the Speedway is so smooth you notice it.   Down that long back straight you see a lot of drivers pulling away from the wall, down to the middle of the track. I&amp;#039;m not sure why they do it...I do it sometimes, but I&amp;#039;m not sure what the purpose is. Maybe because of the stagger in the tires they&amp;#039;re trying to unwind the car a bit.   When you get into a rhythm you can relax on the straights, but at the end you&amp;#039;ve got to be inch perfect. You&amp;#039;re traveling 230 to 235 mph and if you&amp;#039;re an inch or two off, it&amp;#039;s a problem. Put other cars I front of you, they steal your air, there&amp;#039;s turbulence and it becomes even more difficult. Within 20 laps of the start the marbles form and it narrows the lane you can use.   Back toward the wall to enter Turn 3. There are a couple of little ripples in the middle of Turn 3 near the apex. Depending on wind direction, the car will get a little oversteer in the middle and start to understeer toward the wall coming off the corner.   Right in the middle of Turn 4 you can get quite oversteery, because the tail wind is starting to get up your back again and you have to chase it off 4 a little bit.   One of the most challenging bits about Indy, however, is that you can have a car that feels perfect and then the wind will change direction or the temperature will go up or down 10 degrees and the car that was prefect is now undrivable and the lines you took before now don&amp;#039;t work.   For me, qualifying is the ultimate. Last year I think I did six or seven runs and I was scared. We got to the point where we had the rear of the car sliding so much it was slowing the car down. I was thinking `I don&amp;#039;t want to do this again,&amp;quot; but you have to pump yourself up and go. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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