Bob Pockrass
FOX Motorsports Insider
INDIANAPOLIS — Three drivers who completed within the high 12 within the Indianapolis 500 — together with second-place finisher Marcus Ericsson — have been re-positioned to the rear of the end order Monday for technical violations.
The Andretti International automobiles of Marcus Ericsson (second) and Kyle Kirkwood (sixth) and the Prema Racing automotive of Callum Ilott (twelfth) all failed post-race inspection.
Every staff was fined $100,000 and the staff/competitors supervisor for every was suspended for one race.
The Ericsson and Kirkwood penalties have been the results of modifications to the Dallara-supplied Power Administration System covers and the mounting factors from the covers to A-arms utilizing unapproved spacers and components.
Ilott’s automotive failed left facet minimal end-plate top.
The groups can attraction the penalties, and Andretti International in an announcement mentioned it will take step one of the appeals course of and ask for a full evaluation from a evaluation facilitator. Ericsson was credited with a Thirty first-place end and Kirkwood with a Thirty second-place end.
“The staff is reviewing all of it,” Ericsson mentioned on the purple carpet of the Indy 500 victory celebration. “It’s a really harsh penalty. But when that’s the foundations, then that’s the foundations. We respect the integrity of the game.”
Ericsson mentioned he talked with members of his staff right this moment after studying in regards to the penalty.
“Everybody is de facto unhappy and form of heartbroken about it as a result of it was an enormous outcome for all of us,” Ericsson mentioned. “It is a winner-takes-it-all race and I used to be heartbroken yesterday how shut we have been to win it however it nonetheless was as nice outcome.
“To get that taken away was fairly robust for all of us.”
Prema Racing will not attraction the penalty to Ilott, who has now completed thirty third.
“Whereas the identical wing was fully authentic, efficiently handed tech a number of occasions all through the month, and the problem did not result in any efficiency acquire, the automotive ended up being non-compliant with the foundations on the finish of the race, so the staff accepts full duty,” the staff mentioned in an announcement.
“The staff is at present investigating the basis of the issue, which might contain incidents and fitment or manufacturing points. We stay up for implementing the wanted procedures to make sure improved management and keep away from these sorts of points sooner or later.”
Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent a long time protecting motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seashore) Information-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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