IndyCar Teams Reportedly Incurred Over $800,000 in Estimated Damage at Nashville

When it debuted in 2021, the Nashville Grand Prix stood out as one of IndyCar's most chaotic, crash-filled races ever. The narrow street circuit was modified slightly along the original layout to ease the congestion in 2022, but the resulting race was, improbably, an even bigger mess. How big of a mess, you ask? According to an estimate by RACER's Marshall Pruett, repairs from crashes this past weekend cost teams somewhere between $860,000 and $880,000 in damage, including one team reporting repairs that could reach $180,000.

Driver response to the race was not exactly subtle. Series star Pato O'Ward called the event "Crashville" after retiring with gearbox damage caused by a pile-up mid-race, an issue that may have effectively eliminated him from championship contention in an instant. After the race, half the grid seemed to spend their Sunday nights mad at each other online in exchanges that eventually grew to include more reserved drivers like Josef Newgarden and Marcus Ericsson. Most of it was a product of the track, which sits on two sides of a bridge and winds tightly around the areas on either side with little to no room left to maneuver side-by-side.