IndyCar Set For Texas 2-step: 1 Night, 2 Races

FORT WORTH (AP)  IndyCar drivers won't have to wait long for their next race. After racing at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night, they will take a break and then do it again.

The first dual races in major open-wheel racing in 30 years will be a Texas two-step _ two shorter sprints at the high-banked,1.5 mile track that already features some of the series' fastest and most exciting races.

Ryan Briscoe, who won the single race at Texas last year, talked to four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears about the format. For the last dual races at Atlanta in June 1981, Mears won both.

Indianapolis 500 polesitter Alex Tagliani also is on the pole for the first race at Texas. The field for the second race will be set by random draw.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)