Too-dusty tracks limits field to one qualifying session. AUSTIN, Texas -- For Friday's practice and qualifying for Saturday's Red Bull Global Rallycross X Games race Saturday at Circuit of the Americas, the huge grandstand by the track was almost empty, with good reason: While the track itself is just 30 percent dirt, 70 percent tarmac, the dust was so bad that it blew into the grandstands and coated everything in its path. There is typically a second qualifying session with the fastest drivers, but the series called a halt to qualifying after one session. "Visibility was terrible," said Bucky Lasek, who qualified his Subaru for the GRC immediately after competing in the...
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