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.
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