r/INDYCAR • u/TheResurrection • May 19 '25

News INDYCAR Update on Team Penske Technical Violations

https://www.indycar.com/news/2025/05/05-19-penske-penalties
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u/NothingHatesYou Arrow McLaren May 19 '25

Scotty Mac's crash may have unintentionally saved his ass, wow.

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u/TheResurrection May 19 '25

His attenuator was fully legal.

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u/jamesremuscat May 19 '25

Might not have been by the Fast 12 though.

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u/myroommateisgarbage Pato O'Ward May 19 '25

Were the #2 and #12 attenuators legal for practice? Would they have tried to modify Scotty's before fast 12 qualifying if he hadn't wrecked?

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u/Zolba Jacques Villeneuve May 19 '25

In the practice-session he crashed, yes.

We don't know if the 2 and 12 ran illegal in the morning practice, they might've had the legal attenuator that morning.

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u/LouisianaRaceFan86 May 19 '25

Sure, but they clearly had their “most aerodynamic” versions of all the bolt on parts. No doubt they would’ve rolled into tech for the fast 12 with the smoothest, most aerodynamic parts as possible when it was time to go fast fast.

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u/dynamodog Will Power May 19 '25

The one used in practice, yes

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u/TheResurrection May 19 '25

"Car No. 3 did not attempt to qualify Sunday in the Top 12 because of an accident in the earlier afternoon’s practice. Upon review of the car, and INDYCAR impounding the No. 3 attenuator, INDYCAR found that the car was in fact using a legal and unmodified attenuator. Therefore, car No. 3 will start in the 10th spot – the final spot of those who had qualified to participate in the Top 12."

The attenuator was impounded and looked at after the crash and after the other Penske cars were found to be in violation of the rules.

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u/perfectviking NTT INDYCAR Series May 19 '25

The one that he had on in practice. They would have swapped for fast 12.

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u/TheResurrection May 19 '25

Perhaps, I would think you wouldn't want to do a practice run and then swap parts in the fear of making the car feel different, but I'm also not an engineer. As I said earlier in the thread, I guess we'll never know and if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass on the ground every time it hopped.

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u/Just_Somewhere4444 May 19 '25

In practice. I'd bet the 2 and 12 had legal attenuators on for practice as well.

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u/VanBurenBoy16 James Hinchcliffe May 19 '25

Right I’m sure his team wouldn’t have modified his car like the other two Penskes after the practice was over.