IndyCar pulled off one of the wildest one-off races in years -- 100K+ fans, the nation's capital, cars rippin' around the streets -- and the guy who won the historic race has a simple take on a sequel.
Don't do it!
Kyle Kirkwood dominated Sunday's Freedom 250 race, leading for 128 of the 147 laps ... becoming the first (and if he gets his way, the only) winner of an IndyCar race in Washington, D.C.
When TMZ DC asked the Andretti Global driver if he'd like to return next year, he hit up with an interesting answer.
Donald Trump says Washington's first IndyCar race spent years stuck in neutral ... until he got involved and helped get the green light in about 15 minutes.
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The president joined FOX Sports at Sunday's Freedom 250 Grand Prix in D.C., where he took plenty of credit for bringing the race to the nation's capital.
Trump said longtime friend and IndyCar owner Roger Penske told him they'd been trying to make a D.C. race happen for 20 years -- even making more than 200 trips to Washington in the process.
Scary moments from the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama ... where the practice for an IndyCar race resulted in two vicious crashes.
The NTT IndyCar Series' Children's Of Alabama Indy Grand Prix is set to take place Sunday ... but, while driver Scott McLaughlinwas practicing Saturday he spun out on the track and careened into a fence.
Check out the clip ... McLaughlin is able to turn the car enough not to go headfirst into the wall -- but still a scary moment for the 32-year-old New Zealander.
