After soaring through the air strapped into his No. 41 Chevy, briefly getting vertical with all four wheels off the ground, barrel-rolling down the backstretch at Iowa Speedway and then skidding to a stop upside down, Sting Ray Robb's most significant injury is a finger blister.

“I touched the halo getting out of the car, and as it turns out, when you take titanium and scrape it across the ground for a few hundred feet, it gets hot,” Robb said sarcastically Tuesday afternoon on an IndyCar media Zoom call. “Don’t recommend.

“Lesson learned. You’ll get a blister from touching hot titanium.”

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Despite experiencing 109 Gs in one of the most vicious, shocking recent IndyCar crashes, Robb told reporters Tuesday he’s already been cleared to compete this weekend in Toronto, which begins with practice on Friday.

The A.J. Foyt Racing driver said he went through the IndyCar medical team’s rigorous concussion protocols Monday, where he was given the green light to resume his normal workout routine Tuesday and push through the bruising he experienced from the impact from running over the back of Alexander Rossi’s No. 7 Chevy as the latter was running out of fuel coming to the checkered flag.

“I had some bruises on my hips from the lap belts working as they should have. When I immediately got slowed down and stopped, my spotter was talking to me the whole time. I did a quick self-check, and I’d had the wind knocked out of me, but everything worked as it was supposed to. I didn’t have any cuts or anything abnormal,” he said. “When they brought me out of the car and pulled me out, I got light-headed, like if you sit up out of bed too quickly in the morning sometimes. It was like that, but super severe.

“I passed out for I don’t know how long. It was pretty quick, but when I came to, I was like, ‘I’m not doing too well.’”

The AMR safety team eased Robb onto a stretcher and wheeled him into the back of an ambulance. After brief checks at the infield care center, he was whisked away to MercyOne in Des Moines for precautionary measures. He was released later that evening.

“The fact of the matter is, I should be more hurt than I am. I don’t know why I’m ‘OK’ as I am. I’m giving the glory to God for that and thanking the crew picking me up out of the car. Everybody did their job as they were supposed to,” Robb said. “As I was up in the air, I could see the top of the catch fence almost at my level. At that moment, I realized I was in some trouble there.

“I still had my hands on the steering wheel at that point. I was bracing myself. I had enough time in the air to where it kind of went in slow motion. I let go and grabbed under my harnesses to hold on. On the way down, I had time to think about accidents that I’ve seen in recent history where guys, they’ve gone flying through the air like that. Hinchcliffe, Dixon at (IMS), even Simon Pagenaud last year. That was 112 Gs. I was at 109.”

Whereas Rossi’s crew gave him less fuel with less than 50 laps to go on his final stop to save time – though they made an incorrect calculation that prevented him from getting to the finish line – Robb told reporters Tuesday that his No. 41 team only managed to get him a half-tank on his first stop, forcing them into a massive fuel save the rest of the way.

Coming down the stretch, Robb knew he’d been holding up some cars behind while battling Ed Carpenter for 19th place. He closed on Rossi in the closing laps.

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“I looked up going into Turn 1 (on the last lap) to see where he was located, and I think he was about ¾ the way through the turn,” Robb said. “I could see the closing rate. It was very, very big. It was so massive.

“And it’s kinda a worst-case scenario when you’re exiting a turn at that speed with that closing rate, not knowing what the other drivers are thinking or experiencing. I wish I could have hit a reset button like on a simulator and start over again. I’m sure he would be thinking the same thing.”

While admitting he had a tense moment with safety team members who arrived at his upside-down car just as it stopped skidding, Robb was effusive with praise for their quick, caring work.

“Literally as I came to rest, there was someone ducking under the halo to see, ‘Dude, are you all right? What’s hurting? Can you breathe?’ And I’ll be honest, at that point, the adrenaline was going, so I didn’t handle that as good as I’d like to I was a little upset,” he said. “I was like, ‘Of course I’m hurt. Did you just see what happened to me? Yes I can breathe, but it’s not very good. I’m hanging upside down in an Indy car.’

“But when they flipped me over, I don’t know how many guys were there – maybe 10-plus members of the crew supporting me. When I passed out, I could feel two guys holding onto my arms and two guys behind me. They were fully supporting me, and I was fully reliant on them in that moment. They did everything to make me safe, and it shows.”

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With his team hard at work in its Speedway shop to ready a new car for Toronto, Robb said he can't wait to practice on Friday.

“Honestly, I’m doing very well. I had a conversation right before the race weekend, talking about how my faith takes away the fear of dying in an accident,” he said. “You don’t think about getting hurt that bad. I think the fear that I didn’t feel, that I should have felt, was very surprising.

“Getting back in the car at Toronto I think is the best thing for me. When you get kicked off the saddle that hard, you want to get back on as quick as you can to keep the momentum going. I’m very excited to do that this weekend.”

And as countless drivers have stated in the nearly five seasons since its debut, Robb can’t stand to think of how that crash might’ve played out if not for IndyCar’s adoption of the aeroscreen in 2020.

“There’s no doubt the aeroscreen saved a lot of damage to my head and to who knows what else. The halo was on the ground quite a bit. The titanium that I burned my finger on got pretty hot grinding on the surface,” Robb said. “I haven’t seen my helmet yet, but from the people that have inspected it, there’s no visible issues. It’s pretty impressive, because that means that the cockpit did its job.

“Everything in there took the impact, rather than me taking the impact, and the aeroscreen was severely damaged – but that’s because it worked like it was supposed to.”

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