IndyCar: Ganassi team preparing spare chassis for Kimball

Kimball, who struck the side of Aleshin’s spinning car at full speed, emerged without injury, but his No. 83 Novo Nordisk Dallara DW12-Chevy sustained heavy damage to the front of the tub. His Chip Ganassi Racing team is preparing the spare No. 83 chassis for the MAVTV 500 and will also install a fresh Chevy engine. Work is expected to be concluded by the end of the night.

“I saw [Aleshin] spinning and figured I’d either make it through the cloud of tire smoke, or we were going to have a pretty hard hit,” Kimball told RACER. “I’m fine and I hope Mikhail’s alright.”

Kimball will be able to assume his fifth place on the grid for tomorrow night's MAVTV 500, despite the change of chassis and engine.