Indianapolis, Michigan to convert to single-car qualifying

Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Michigan International Speedway, two Sprint Cup venues coming up this summer, have revealed plans to switch to a modified version of NASCAR's past single-car qualifying format, the same one that the restrictor plate events at Daytona and Talladega switched to this spring after a disastrous pre-Budweiser Duel group qualifying session for the Daytona 500. Indianapolis is a 2.5-mile rectangle-like track, that has slower speeds than the similar-length Daytona and Talladega and about the same as the triangle-shaped Pocono Raceway, while Michigan is a two-mile tri-oval, for the most part the same shape as the plate tracks, as well as the basis for the identical Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.