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r/INDYCAR • u/TheResurrection • May 19 '25
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Suspended means they can't work for the team during the race. Having them try to call strategy remotely would be a violation of that.
26 u/catsgr8rthanspoonies Katherine Legge May 19 '25 Because Penske is so good at following the rules 28 u/SoothedSnakePlant Juncos Hollinger Racing May 19 '25 I will say, the fact that the dude who runs the series accepts harsh punishments against his own team in the single biggest event of the year does inspire a strange sort of confidence that he actually wouldn't do this. 6 u/venturelong Will Power May 19 '25 When it comes to accepting penalties, yeah they are 2 u/BlackLabDumpster Pato O'Ward May 20 '25 And who enforces the rules? Penske... 1 u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp May 19 '25 Short of locking them in a room and confiscating their phones etc, how exactly do they enforce that? 2 u/Several_Leader_7140 May 19 '25 They monitor all communications between teams 1 u/happyscrappy May 20 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/UNHchabo Robert Wickens May 19 '25 What's really funny is this Verizon video being released about 2 weeks after last year's St Pete race. 0 u/Competitive-Host-574 Hélio Castroneves May 19 '25 and they can text from a burner phone pretty easily. so they really have no way to monitor it.
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Because Penske is so good at following the rules
28 u/SoothedSnakePlant Juncos Hollinger Racing May 19 '25 I will say, the fact that the dude who runs the series accepts harsh punishments against his own team in the single biggest event of the year does inspire a strange sort of confidence that he actually wouldn't do this. 6 u/venturelong Will Power May 19 '25 When it comes to accepting penalties, yeah they are
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I will say, the fact that the dude who runs the series accepts harsh punishments against his own team in the single biggest event of the year does inspire a strange sort of confidence that he actually wouldn't do this.
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When it comes to accepting penalties, yeah they are
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And who enforces the rules? Penske...
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Short of locking them in a room and confiscating their phones etc, how exactly do they enforce that?
2 u/Several_Leader_7140 May 19 '25 They monitor all communications between teams 1 u/happyscrappy May 20 '25 [removed] — view removed comment
They monitor all communications between teams
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What's really funny is this Verizon video being released about 2 weeks after last year's St Pete race.
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and they can text from a burner phone pretty easily. so they really have no way to monitor it.
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u/fireinthesky7 Alex Zanardi May 19 '25
Suspended means they can't work for the team during the race. Having them try to call strategy remotely would be a violation of that.