The suspensions include this week’s road race at Indianapolis and the Indianapolis 500 at the end of the month.
FILE - Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden, right, celebrates his victory with team owner Roger Penske after the IndyCar Grand Prix of St. Petersburg auto race, Sunday, March 10, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
“We’re the same company we have been for 50 years and I’m going to hold my head high,” Penske told the AP. “This is an unfortunate situation and when you’re the leader, you have to take action. We’ve done that and we’re going to move on. I am not trying to run a popularity contest.” Cindric and Ruzewski “raised their hands as the team leaders” to accept responsibility for the mess, Penske told AP.
Ruzewski and Atkinson both work on Will Power’s car — Ruzewski is his strategist — and Power was the only one of the three Penske drivers not accused of wrongdoing. Penske acknowledged that Power had done nothing wrong and said the suspensions to his crew members were based solely on their roles within the team. None of Scott McLaughlin’s team members were punished; the driver was earlier stripped of his third-place finish at the March race.
Newgarden said he thought there had been a rule change and the P2P system was now legal on restarts. McLaughlin said he hit the button out of habit and gained no advantage from the horsepower boost that lasted less than 2 seconds. Penske owns the race team, IndyCar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and has been in damage control
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