Motor racing-Indy 500 has high level of concern after mass shootings

FILE PHOTO: Spectators react as drivers take their first lap at the Indy 500, the largest attended sporting event in the world since the start of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., May 30, 2021. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - After the mass shootings at a South Texas school and a Buffalo supermarket, Indianapolis 500 officials said on Thursday there was a high level of concern around this year's race while foreign drivers expressed shock at the incidents.

Weather is usually the main worry ahead of the Indy 500 but the cloud hanging over the run-up to Sunday's race is the massacre that occurred at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School on Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.