After several teams complained Friday that they didn’t have any spare parts for the new aero kit at this weekend’s IndyCar Open Test at ISM Raceway, Dallara CEO Stefano dePonti contended that’s not entirely accurate.

DePonti took Autoweek to the company’s transporter in the IndyCar paddock at the 1.022-mile short oval and showed extra parts on hand in case teams needed them over the weekend. DePonti said there were enough parts on the trailer for two to three cars.

“We came here with parts,” dePonti told Autoweek. “Progressively, every week we are building parts and delivering parts and partial kits. Our target is for everybody to have the sufficient parts and enough spare parts before the season starts at St. Pete.”

Several IndyCar teams said on Friday they had enough aero kit parts to put each of the 23 cars onto the race course for the 12 hours of testing spread over two days. But teams were concerned that if they had a crash or even a minor incident, they would not have the necessary spare parts to fix the damage and return to the track.

Because of that, many teams expressed caution while testing, although that was hard to see that once they were at speed on the race course.

Many of the newer teams, such as Carlin Racing, said they barely had enough to complete two full cars -- one each for drivers Max Chilton of England and Charlie Kimball of California.

“If either one of them crash, we’re done for the day,” said team owner Trevor Carlin.

Friday’s six hours of testing had just one minor incident and that was a spin by rookie driver Matheus Leist in Friday night’s practice. Saturday’s three-hour daytime test was incident-free and Saturday night’s three-hour session went 1 hour and 20 minutes before Leist spun again and made light contact with the turn one wall, essentially whitewalling the tires.

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