OPINION: Why Indy500 'fix' finish accusations are wide of the mark 👇
Photo by: Michael L. Levitt /It’s a mantra that IndyCar has stuck to for a while now, following in NASCAR’s footsteps without going as far as the ‘overtime’ you get in stock car racing. And Penske wants it, because he wants to see a good race with an exciting finish, and what we got is exactly as IndyCar prescribed:
• IndyCar’s rules provide options to achieve this goal which is repeatedly communicated to competitors prior to every event. The only thing that bugged me about that last red flag was the time that it took to throw it. After the previous wreck involving Pato O’Ward, Simon Pagenaud and Agustin Canapino, it took less than a minute for race control to hit the red button. But for the final shunt, as cars came to the green with four laps to go, for some reason it took twice as long.
That meant there was only time for the cars to complete one flying lap to complete the race, coming straight from the pitlane to do so – deleting the usual requirement for a proper warm-up lap. That’s the only similarity that I see here to the infamous 2021 Abu Dhabi GP Formula 1 decider, where race director Michael Masi played fast and loose with the lapped cars rule to get a final lap in.
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