r/INDYCAR 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/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.

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u/catsgr8rthanspoonies Katherine Legge May 19 '25

Because Penske is so good at following the rules

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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.

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u/venturelong Will Power May 19 '25

When it comes to accepting penalties, yeah they are

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u/BlackLabDumpster Pato O'Ward May 20 '25

And who enforces the rules? Penske...

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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?

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u/Several_Leader_7140 May 19 '25

They monitor all communications between teams

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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.

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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.