2025 Indianapolis 500: Team Penske fires several team officials after the scandal was fraudulent during the qualification

Team Penske announced on Wednesday morning that the team released the President of the IndyCar team Tim Cindric, the managing director Ron Ruzewski and GM Kyle Moyer into the Fallout of a fraudulent scandal who headed the head start on the 109th Indianapolis 500. Damping agents in qualifying over the weekend, which meant that the two were sent to the rear part of the field for the race on Sunday and all points were achieved in qualifying. In addition, Cindric and Ruzewski were suspended and Team Penske was fined with a fine of $ 100,000.

Before almost 12 qualifying on Sunday, IndyCar civil servants found that the rear weaker – had a safety device for reducing the power of the effects and an unmodified specification – illegal fillings in the seam both on the cars of Newgarden and power. The discovery took place after other teams noticed and accused the penske cars of the fraud, and there was another outrage when it turned out that Newgarden's 2024 Indianapolis 500 award winners in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum also had the same fillings in cushioning.

The belief is that the modifications on the damper gave the Penske car an aerodynamic advantage, and the matter is complicated by the fact that the Team Penske owner Roger Penske also has Indycar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which leads to strong actions to protect the integrity of the sport and its greatest breed.

“Nothing is more important than the integrity of our sport and our racing teams. We have had organizational failures in the past two years and had to make necessary changes,” said Penske in an explanation. “I apologize to our fans, our partners and our organization to let them down.”

As was indicated in the statement by Penske, the team was also at the center of another scandal that led to Indy 500 of the last year when Newgarden's winning car in St. Petersburg had illegally used its push-to-pass system with restarting, which provided additional buoyancy of the horsepower that should not have had it. Newgarden was disqualified and a two-race suspension was issued to Cindric, who acted as Newgarden's race strategist.

While IndyCar officers decided not to throw the two cars out of the field because they passed the Tech inspection on the first day of the qualification on Saturday, both were taken to attempt to qualify in the fast 12, and will begin in the last row in the last row of Indianapolis 500. While Newgarden, and the power that started in the fourth row, in the fourth row, started in the quarter of an hour, additional punishments that were later rated were evaluated. Brown.

The dismissal of Cindric is a massive development because he has been with the organization since 2000 and worked for all racing companies as Penske's Right-Hand-Mann. He is also the father of the 2022 Daytona 500 champions Austin Cindric, who runs full-time in the Nascar Cup series for Penske and won his first win of the season in Talladega a few weeks ago. For his part, Cindric had argued on Sunday that the team did not believe that the seam fillings were a performance advantage.

Team Penske is the most successful organization in the history of the Indianapolis 500, as they won the 500 -mile race 20 times and complete the race on Sunday for their third victory in a row with Newgarden. In 2019, Penske acquired both the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indycar, which led to discussions about the need to protect the integrity of the race and sport on the Speedway.