Simona de Silvestro was forced to make another quick fire escape at Indianapolis. The Swiss driver who qualified and then drove in the 2011 Indianapolis 500 despite burns on both of her hands scrambled out of the cockpit of Michael Andretti's No. 29 car Tuesday after it burst into flames about two hours into practice. ''I was going down the straightaway, and it wouldn't upshift and it was already on fire then,'' de Silvestro said. We were ready to go do a longer run and now we're not getting that in, so it's really frustrating.'' Five years ago at Texas, de Silvestro's car burst into flames after she hit the wall in the second turn.
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