INDIANAPOLIS — Saturday’s GMR Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course was the first time the cockpit protection system known as the aeroscreen was used in the rain. But Saturday’s race was the first time it had been used in heavy rain and wet conditions. Many drivers said at the end of the race, they simply could not see and relied on their spotters for instructions on when to turn the car to get through the turns. I couldn’t see the brake zone or the cars in front of me or the end of the pit wall, but I could look out the side of the aeroscreen, so I was looking right and left to go straight, which was neat.”. The aeroscreen does not have a wiper blade system that is used on sports cars that race in the rain. I couldn’t see the cars in front of me under yellow. “At the end there, man, you could not see a thing,” Power said. “I didn’t have much problem with the rain,” Power said. Before the aeroscreen, drivers would get soaked in the cockpit during a rain race.

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