Team Penske Fire Leaders to Indy 500 Scandal

The Indycar Giants team Penske released three leaders this week about illegal modifications to cars for cars before the Indianapolis 500 races.

Team President Tim Cindric, Managing Director Ron Ruzewski and General Manager Kyle Moyer were released on Wednesday.

“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 the necessary changes. I apologize to our fans, our partners and our organization to let them down,” said team owner Roger Penske in a statement.

The case is particularly difficult because Penske is also the owner of the Indycar series and the Indianapolis 500 Race and the route, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

No replacement have been set up yet, but the team said “further announcements” would be made later this week.

The violations were discovered on Sunday before the last qualification race.

Josef Newgarden's car, which is looking for an unprecedented third Indy500 win in a row, and team -mate Will Power has an illegally modified specification part on your cars.

These entries were moved to the back of the field for the 32nd or 33rd place for the race on Sunday, and each entry was occupied by IndyCar with a fine of $ 100,000.

It is not the first problem that Penske affects the last year at the season opening race in St. Petersburg, Florida, Newgarden and Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin, it was mastered that two 'push, parameter and were disqualified by this event.

The discovery of the recent violations that concerned modified weaknesses had led to a strong criticism of other teams.

The Mexican driver of McLaren, Pato O'Ward, had proposed that there were other cases related to Team Penske and the two public violations.

“These are the only two times that it was public. But it wasn't the only time. There were two or three things they caught about them, Indycar Tech, where they only received fines,” he told Motorsport.com.

“But in the end it is not a good view. It is not a good view of everyone. Whether it has become public or not. This was obviously very public. But some of the other things are also more powerful. For the racing cars, not for the drivers. These were not public,” he added.

Indycar President J. Douglas Boles said before the writings that it was crucial that the series had maintained its integrity.

“The positive impulse around the NTT IndyCar series and the Indianapolis 500 has been on a steep crescendo in the past few months, and we want our intention to preserve this dynamics and prevent teams from putting indycar in positions in which they are included in the integrity of our office and the level of the field,” said Boles.

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