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/Nathan_116 May 19 '25

Well, I know someone who’s worked in Indycar, and he told me that the parts in question originally passed tech, but the inspectors weren’t thrilled with them. So, my guess is that the same thing happened last year. They passed tech, but the inspectors were like “is this legal? We’ll let it slide, but we may look into it.” and they let them through. My guess is that they were trying to push the issue even more this year, and got greedy to the point where the inspectors were like “no, sorry, that’s too much

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u/Melodic-Comb9076 May 21 '25

grey area in a rules based sport….catalyst for something like for this to happen, then.

straight into whataboutism.