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Indianapolis Star
2 hours ago
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
IndyCar working to implement partial scanning into tech inspection process
DETROIT — With the assistance of Chip Ganassi Racing, Andretti Global, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Arrow McLaren and Dallara, IndyCar president Doug Boles said the series has begun to explore a partial scanning process for its tech inspection process that will "advance" IndyCar's ability to ensure all cars are competing on a level playing field. A week ago, in the wake of Team Penske's pair of Indianapolis 500 pre-Fast 12 tech inspection failures and the ensuing firestorm of penalties, firings and paddock-wide controversy, Boles was asked whether implementing scanning in IndyCar's pre- and post-session tech inspection process, something that both IMSA and NASCAR use, could offer an easy fix to ensure something like Penske's out-of-compliance attenuators that have existed for well over a year wouldn't get missed. At the time, the series president said that due to the fact the cars in use have been made over such a long period of time, it might prove ineffective until a new car came online in 2027 at the earliest. Boles said Friday that IndyCar in recent days made progress in at least a partial-scanning process the series hopes to validate over a couple more races the rest of this season. "(Chip Ganassi Racing, Andretti Global, A.J. Foyt Enterprises and Arrow McLaren) provided their Indianapolis 500 cars for us to use this week for scanning verification. This was extra work for their crews after a very busy weekend, and Iappreciate their support," Boles said. "We learned quite a bit in the exercise and are targeting at least two more events this year where we can validate the process and our learnings and continue to advance our technical inspection process in the future." Additionally, Boles noted that IndyCar had had "productive dialogue" with Andretti Global and Prema Racing in the wake of the post-race tech inspection penalties levied against both teams less than 24 hours after the completion of the 500. Andretti's Nos. 27 (Kyle Kirkwood) and 28 (Marcus Ericsson) cars that finished sixth and second were found to have modified the Dallara-supplied Energy Management System covers and cover-to-A-arm mounting points with unapproved spacers and parts. Prema's No. 90 car (Callum Ilott) was found post-race to have a left side front wing endplate that didn't reach minimum height. Prema noted immediately on Monday that it accepted the penalties, while Andretti Global triggered a review process this week before saying Friday that it accepted IndyCar's penalties "after careful analysis with IndyCar" and wouldn't pursue any further review or appeals. Along with the cars being shifted to the back of the finishing order for the 500 (31st through 33rd) and seeing their prize money and championship points from the event shift to correspond with their final finishing spots, each of the three penalized cars were fined $100,000, and team managers on the cars were suspended for the Detroit Grand Prix. Insider: Indy 500 broadcast hit 17-year high. What comes next is important for IndyCar's growth In his Friday statement, Boles thanked both teams for sharing in "transparent and open conversations regarding how the mistakes were made."
Fox News
2 days ago
- General
- Fox News
Fox News Sports Huddle Newsletter: California takes centerstage in transgender athlete debate, Indy500 drama
GIRLS' SPORTS – A transgender athlete finished in first place in multiple events at the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Track Championship Masters Qualifiers over the weekend. The athlete is set to compete in the girls' long jump and triple jump state championships later this week. The Department of Education is investigating the CIF. Continue reading… ELIGIBILITY RULES – The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) told Fox News Digital it amended its eligibility rules for the state championship. The change was announced shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from California. Continue reading … FAMILY REACTS – A rule change will allow at least two California high school athletes to qualify for the state title after falling just shy of the typical qualification threshold after a transgender athlete won a pair of events. A family with a daughter trying to win a title told Fox News Digital they are "grateful" the White House is taking an interest in the upcoming event. Continue reading … MOVED TO THE REAR – Andretti Global drivers Marcus Ericsson and Kyle Kirkwood were stripped of their original finishes in the Indy 500 after their cars failed post-race technical inspection. Continue reading … INDY 500 HISTORY – Alex Palou etched his name in the history books and enjoyed the ceremonial swig of milk in Victory Lane at the Indianapolis 500 over the weekend. He became the first Spanish driver to win the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Continue reading … CHAOS ENSUES – Tensions flared during Saturday's NCAA baseball game between Samford and Mercer. A player's animated home run celebration sparked ejections for players, coaches, and even parents. Continue reading … 'GREAT FOR OUR GAME' – Caitlin Clark was whistled for a flagrant foul on Agnel Reese during their latest WNBA matchup. The heated moment sparked more debate about the rivalry, which is something Dawn Staley believes is ultimately "great for our game." Continue reading … CAN'T VERIFY – The WNBA said it was unable to substantiate a report of racist fan behavior at the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game on May 17. Officials said the league "will continue to be vigilant in enforcing our fan code of conduct." Continue reading … SIDELINED – Wednesday will mark the first game Caitlin Clark has missed across her four years at Iowa and her time in the WNBA. On Monday, the Indiana Fever announced the star guard will miss at least two weeks with a quad strain. Continue reading … FROM OUTKICK – Kirk Cousins skipped the Atlanta Falcons' first day of voluntary organized team activities. The veteran quarterback has expressed his desire to move to another team where he will have the opportunity to start in 2025. Continue reading … WATCH NOW – The Pacers took a commanding series lead by defeating the Knicks in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. FOX Sports' Colin Cowherd discusses Tyrese Haliburton's standout performance. Continue reading … FROM FOX SPORTS – NFL on FOX analyst Terry Bradshaw criticized the Pittsburgh Steelers' reported ongoing pursuit of free agent star quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Continue reading … Fox News FirstFox News Opinion ' Fox News FirstFox News Opinion
Fox Sports
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
Gearing Up: Can Anyone Slow Palou in the Motor City?
INDYCAR Before moving on to the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear, consider the impact Alex Palou's victory in the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge had on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season standings. The Chip Ganassi Racing driver who won the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval race from the sixth starting position grew his series lead to a staggering 112 points. The win was his fifth in six races this season, and he has won the past three races. SEE: Detroit Event Details At Monday night's '500' awards ceremony, teammate Scott Dixon offered Palou a five-week family vacation beginning Thursday, with all expenses paid. As moderator Allen Bestwick joked, the Spaniard would still likely return with the points lead. That might be right. Assuming Palou participates in each of the remaining 11 races and only scores a minimum number of points, he will finish with 361 points. That total would have ranked 11th last year. But of course, Palou has won races at five of the circuits left on the schedule, including two wins each at three of them, so he might have his third consecutive series championship and fourth in five years wrapped up in July. Since the maximum a driver can score in an NTT INDYCAR SERIES weekend is 54 points, the Indy winner has more than a two-race lead. Arrow McLaren drivers Pato O'Ward and Christian Lundgaard are second and third in the standings, 112 and 125 points in arrears, respectively. Those drivers finished third and seventh, respectively, in the '500.' Palou's dominance is evident in virtually every category, and here's another to digest: In leading the final 14 laps of the '500,' he pushed his season total to 163 laps led. Drivers in the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth spots in the standings have combined to lead 157 laps. It will be interesting to see how Palou fares in Detroit after several days celebrating his first Indy win. The past three '500' winners have had an average finish of 14.3 in the Motor City, perhaps distracted or fatigued by the whirlwind of sponsor and media functions in the days between the two races. Last year, Palou finished 16th, leading only a single lap. However, he won the 2023 race there, the first held on the 10-turn, 1.645-mile downtown street circuit. Dixon won last year's Detroit race with Marcus Ericsson finishing second in his best result of the season with Andretti Global. Marcus Armstrong, then driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, finished third. Andretti Global's Colton Herta won the NTT P1 Award but finished 19th, one lap off the pace. This weekend's action kicks off with the first practice Friday at 3 p.m. ET (FS2, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio Network). Saturday's on-track activity shifts to FS1 for the second practice at 9 a.m. and qualifying for the NTT P1 Award at noon. Sunday, the pre-race warmup is at 9:30 a.m. on FS1 with the 100-lap race at 12:30 p.m. on FOX. recommended
Fox Sports
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
Instant Recall: 109th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge
INDYCAR Can an Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge be predictable and unpredictable? Sunday's certainly was. Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou was the heavy favorite to win the 109th Running, and he did. Perhaps his drive in the No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda wasn't as dominating as his other NTT INDYCAR SERIES victories in recent years, but he executed in the closing laps like the series champion he is. He led the final 14 laps after passing Andretti Global's Marcus Ericsson approaching Turn 1 on Lap 187. Palou has been worthy of a place on the Borg-Warner Trophy almost since the moment he joined Chip Ganassi's team in 2021. That first year, Palou was leading two laps from the checkered flag only to have Helio Castroneves wiggle past. The next year, an inopportune mid-pace caution sent the Spaniard, who was leading, to 30th in the order. Palou scrambled back to finish ninth, and his story was similar in 2023 when he charged back to finish fourth after taking pit road contact from Rinus VeeKay. Last year he finished fifth. Palou's average finish in the past five '500s' is 4.2, and his mark in the six series races this year is 1.17. So, yeah, it's not a surprise that he drank the milk in Victory Lane. Other expected happenings on Sunday: Team Penske's Josef Newgarden of Team Penske drove like the two-time '500' winner he is. While forced to start on the last row due to penalties assessed in PPG Presented Armed Forces Qualifying, Newgarden astutely held back at the drop of the initial green flag and avoided Marco Andretti's spin, and he then marched forward. Many thought that if Newgarden could be in the top 10 by Lap 100, he'd been squarely in the hunt for the unprecedented three-peat. He was 10th. Newgarden was in sixth on Lap 132 when he realized something was amiss with the No. 2 Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Team Penske Chevrolet. A fuel pressure issue ended his day. Aside from that, it was the day everyone expected. The final results won't reflect how well 2022 '500' winner Ericsson drove in the No. 28 Allegra Honda of Andretti Global. He led 17 laps and appeared to have finished second for the second time in three years before his car failed post-race technical inspection. History will show him 31st of 33. Regardless, Ericsson showed that he continues to be one of Indy's best drivers of this generation. Like Palou and Newgarden, Arrow McLaren's Pato O'Ward and AJ Foyt Racing's Santino Ferrucci have been among the best finishers in recent '500s,' and they continued that Sunday. O'Ward finished third in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet to extend his string of success to five top-six finishes in six races, and his 2023 race ended with a crash on Lap 193 trying to pass for second. Ferrucci finished fifth in the No. 14 Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet to notch his record-extending seventh straight top-10 finish to open his Indy career. AJ Foyt Racing continued its excellence in recent '500s.' In addition to Ferrucci, David Malukas finished second in the No. 4 Clarience Technologies Chevrolet as A.J. Foyt's team placed two cars in the top five for the first time since 2000 when Eliseo Salazar finished third with Jeff Ward fourth. As a whole, former Indy winners excelled. Ryan Hunter-Reay (2014) and Takuma Sato (2017 and 2020) combined to lead 99 of the 200 laps. Hunter-Reay, who led 48 laps in the Indy-only entry of DRR-Cusick Motorsports, fell out of contention when his No. 23 DRR CUSICK WEDBUSH SECURITIES Chevrolet, likely out of fuel, stalled on pit exit on Lap 169. Sato slid past his pit box on a stop at Lap 86 in Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing's No. 75 AMADA Honda. Sato finished ninth, Hunter-Reay 21st. Castroneves finished 10th in the No. 06 Cliffs Honda of Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian. Ed Carpenter Racing's Alexander Rossi also had a great chance to win for a second time, which is why he threw his gloves in frustration as his No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet caught fire on pit road. The unpredictability of Indy was on full display, especially early. The list of high-profile drivers who had early issues was lengthy. It started with Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin, who crashed his No. 3 Pennzoil Team Penske Chevrolet on the frontstretch warming his tires before the start of the race. He was devastated, describing it as a 'rookie' mistake. Also with early issues were Andretti (a Turn 1 spin in the No. 98 MAPEI/Curb Honda of Andretti Herta w/Marco & Curb-Agajanian), Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon (a brake fire in the No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda), Andretti Global's Colton Herta (a pit speed violation on Lap 61 in the No. 26 Gainbridge Honda). Herta finished 14th, Dixon 20th and Andretti 29th. Team Penske's top finisher was Will Power in 16th in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet. None of Roger Penske's cars led a lap, the second time that's happened in the past four years. Team Penske also was shut out among the lap leaders in 2022. Several teams had pit road issues, including Dale Coyne Racing's VeeKay (contact in the No. 18 askROI Honda), Rossi, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing's Louis Foster (the rookie twice received pit road speeding penalties), DRR-Cusick Motorsports' Jack Harvey (the No. 24 DRR CUSICK INVST Chevrolet got flagged for speeding) and pole sitter Robert Shwartzman (the No. 83 PREMA Racing Chevrolet struck crew members). The post-race technical inspection failures of Ericsson, Andretti Global's Kyle Kirkwood and PREMA Racing's Callum Ilott. They had taken the checkered flag in the second, sixth and 12th positions, but they were dropped to 31st, 32nd and 33rd. There were many other highlights: Palou earned the first oval victory of his career, pushing his total number of wins to 16 to tie him with Dan Wheldon for 31st place on the sport's all-time list. Palou also has a whopping 112-point lead – a gap of more than two races' worth of points – on the field heading to this weekend's Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear as he pursues his third consecutive series championship and fourth in five years. FOX Sports earned impressive ratings, with more than 7 million people tuning in to the race. It's the biggest audience for the '500' since 2008. The sellout crowd that approached 350,000 was the second in modern '500' history, as IMS also sold all grandstand seats for the 100th Indy 500 in 2016. recommended
USA Today
3 days ago
- Automotive
- USA Today
Conor Daly revealed he drove the whole Indy 500 'sitting in my own pee'
Conor Daly revealed he drove the whole Indy 500 'sitting in my own pee' On the surface, Conor Daly had an excellent Sunday at the 109th Indianapolis 500. After qualifying 11th, he led 13 laps in his No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet and ultimately earned an eight-place finish behind winner Alex Palou. (He was originally 10th but gained two spots after Andretti Global's Marcus Ericsson and Kyle Kirkwood, who both finished ahead of Daly, failed post-race inspection and were dropped to the back of the field.) It's one of the biggest races in the world and one that's particularly special to Indiana-native Daly, so yeah, on the outside, it looked like he had a pretty great race day. However, as the IndyStar's Nathan Brown reported Monday, Daly's Indy 500 was actually quite gross, as he unfortunately faced an in-car challenge many (if not, all) drivers dread: having to go to the bathroom during a race. According to Brown, Daly explained: 'Never in my life have I urinated in my race car until Sunday. I was sitting on the grid, and I was like, 'This is my the best car I've ever been in in my whole life. And like, I'm gonna have to pee in this thing.['] 'I don't know if it was a diabetes [thing], or I'm just getting old…I literally did the entire race sitting in my own pee, so it was a tough one.' Back in 2017, For The Win did some digging to see how much of an issue having to use the bathroom mid-race is for drivers. Some NASCAR drivers said it never or rarely happens to them, but they also acknowledged that sometimes, when you've gotta go, you just gotta go. 'It's rare that it happens, but sometimes it does and if you think you can hold it, hold it,' Dale Earnhardt Jr, told For The Win in 2017. 'But it's also a distraction, and racing a car, you need so much focus, [so] if it's a distraction, you go ahead and get rid of that distraction. 'But you're hot and sweaty and soaking wet already. I guess it's so uncommon outside of racing that it's a shock to most people, but in our sport, when you hear about it, there's a chuckle or two, but it doesn't really surprise anybody that it happens to everybody once in a while.' Hopefully, Daly will remember his 10th-place finish at the 2025 Indy 500 more than what he was sitting in.
