With IndyCar race on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park, all the attention focused on what happened in the season opener and the recent fallout from it.
Pole sitter Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden #2 of United States leads into turn 2 during the IndyCar Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg auto race, Sunday March 10, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Newgarden won the event but had to vacate the win this week after news his team came by the win illegally. Or somebody on his team or something. Whoever did it, the 33-year-old IndyCar driver took the brunt of it Friday.
The last time IndyCar vacated a win involved Al Unser Jr. back in 1995, but he appealed it and had it reinstated. By contrast, while it was rare for a while in NASCAR, the stock car organization has stepped up punishment guidelines and vacated three wins since 2019. It goes without saying different sports are that: different. Things impermissible in other arenas become part of other’s landscape.
“I don’t know how you do that,” he said. “It’s important to state, I think it’s the truth, I don’t know that anybody’s going to believe what I’ve told you here today. That’s OK. I mean, I think it’s a crazy set of circumstances to try and just reason with.” But everyone affiliated chalked it up to an honest mistake, believe it or not. To be more specific, a copy-paste error, Team Penske president Tim Cindric told“I didn’t appreciate some of the quotes that were made. I’ll say that,” Graham Rahal said. “Like, I didn’t appreciate some of the excuses that were made because I don’t think that they’re valid excuses. ...
Exactly one week after NASCAR dropped its green flag, these boys and their open-wheel machines will put on a show for this football-crazy state and the racing world. A cleaner show.
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