2/17 :: Wrap it up

Darcy Gibbs (in photo above) attaches a colorful vinyl graphics panel on an Indy Racing League trailer, and then meticulously works out the air bubbles and cuts openings for doors and windows. OK, one panel complete … 19 to go. Oh, there are six more trailers waiting back at headquarters. Preparations for the Open Test next week at Barber Motorsports Park - and the start of the season - are in overdrive, and that includes all Indy Racing League vehicles receiving new sponsor-appropriate skins. Click it: Barber Motorsports Park Open Test schedule (times are local) Gibbs and other associates at Freelance Imaging, Inc. have been putting final touches on the IZOD IndyCar Series transporters heading to Alabama for the test, using the four-color, full-panel vinyl graphics designed by IZOD parent Philips-Van Heusen and produced at the Indianapolis company. "To do a trailer, you're looking at 15-20 hours," Kevin Klink of Freelance Imaging, Inc. says. "The seams and...