FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Takuma Sato uncared for the delayed season-opening IndyCar dart after his group wasn’t ready to acquire the automotive repaired in time for the golf green flag Saturday night after a shatter in qualifying.

Sato got high into Flip 1 on the high-banked Texas Motor Speedway on the commence of his qualifying dart, and slammed onerous into the wall about 2 1/2 hours old to the dart started.

The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing crew worked feverishly to are attempting to acquire the automotive prepared the dart, which adopted practice and qualifying earlier within the all-in-one-day tournament.

Sato, the 2017 Indianapolis 500 winner, used to be the polesitter at Texas remaining year, when he accomplished 15th.