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INDIANAPOLIS -- Kyle Kaiser and his No. 32 Juncos Racing Chevrolet were involved in a violent crash during the early stages of Fast Friday practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
"I'm fine," Kaiser said upon being checked, cleared and released from the infield care center shortly after the wreck. "Obviously I'm very disappointed. I just lost the car. It was feeling fine for the first two laps. That's usually where I get a better feel for the balance. And it was feeling, obviously, on the freer side because it's Fast Friday, and you're running the car minimum downforce, but in the middle of the corner it felt like it just immediately snapped."
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The good news is that Kaiser didn't sustain a major injury. The bad news, however, is that Juncos Racing's prospects to try and compete in this weekend's qualifying are in serious jeopardy. Kaiser said it was a "pretty big" setback for the team heading into qualifying weekend.
While the team owns a second chassis, they are going to be scrambling to find the parts necessary to build out the complete race car.
"We'll have to go back and see what we can salvage and see what the options are," Kaiser said. "It's probably too early to really say."
Making the situation even more dire for the team is that it doesn't have sponsors this month.
In speaking with the TV broadcast, team owner Ricardo Juncos said he doesn't know what the immediate future holds for the team.
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