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It's June 19th, 2005, race day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Inside a plush motorhome in the paddock, Formula One Supremo Bernie Eccleston sits in a leather chair, watching a television mounted on the wall. Outside, more than 100,000 fans

packed the grandstands for the United States Grand Prix. The cars circle the circuit on their

formation or warm-up lap. The atmosphere is electric. But Eccleston knows something the fans don't.

This race is about to become one of the strangest spectacles in motorsport history.

For the last three days, Formula One has been in chaos.

Emergency meetings, heated arguments, last-minute negotiations behind closed doors, all over a single component, tires.

Teams running on Michelin's discovered something terrifying during practice.

The high-speed final corner is simply too much for the tires to handle.

Cars return to the pits with the rubber shredded after just a few laps.

One driver even crashed into the wall.

And when they race today, every car will take that corner more than 70 times at speeds

at 200 miles an hour. A blowout wouldn't just end a driver's

race. It could end their life. But despite the risk, F-1 officials have refused to install extra

curves to slow the cars at the crucial turn. They reasoned that doing so would penalize the teams that don't use Michelin.

So the track is staying the same.

Ecclestone leans forward in his seat as the cars approach the end of the formation lap.

Twenty cars sweep toward the final corner.

Then one car peels off into the pit lane.

Another follows, and another, and another.

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