IndyCar: Top 5 strangest races since 2010
By Asher Fair
The 2019 IndyCar season is the final season of the 2010 decade. What are the top five strangest races since the start of the decade?
The 2019 IndyCar season is scheduled to get underway in just over one week with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida. The 17 races on this year’s schedule are scheduled to be the final 17 IndyCar races of this decade.
From the start of the 2010 season through the end of the 2018 season, there have been some very strange occurrences in a number of races. But what have the sport’s top five strangest races been since the start of the decade.
The factors involved in making this slideshow included but were not limited to how surprising the race winners were, how the races ended, weather conditions, wrecks, interesting officiating calls and the overall complexions of the races that featured one or more of these factors.
However, none of these races were based solely on only one of these factors; they all had elements of a number of them. For instance, J.R. Hildebrand’s crash in the final turn of the final lap of the 2011 Indianapolis 500 that sent Dan Wheldon to victory lane is not enough to make this race considered one of the strangest of the decade.
Without further ado, here are the top five strangest IndyCar races since the start of the 2010 season.