Indianapolis (AP) – Roger Penske tried to close the last cheating scandal engulfing his race team – this one to her beloved Indianapolis 500 – in dismissing her three best executives of the Penske team after two of the Censke cars were illegal.
Penske dismissed the president of the Tim Cindric team, the managing director of Indycar, Ron Ruzewski, and the managing director of Indycar Kyle Moyer Indianapolis 500 cheating scandal.
“Nothing is more important than the integrity of our sport and our race teams,” said Penske in a press release. “We have had organizational failures in the past two years, and we had to make the necessary changes. I apologize to our fans, our partners and our organization for having dropped them. ”
Penske owns the team of three cars, Indycar, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500. He won the Record of the Indy 500 20 times.
The dismissals and the Penske declaration were his first public reaction since the double winner of Indianapolis 500, Josef Newgarden, and his teammate Will Power were noted to have a part of illegally modified specifications on their cars before the last series of qualifications on Sunday for the 109th series of “the biggest show of the race”.
None of the two drivers has been authorized to qualify and The two Mondays were abandoned at the back of the field and will start the 32nd and 33rd. Rival teams argued that this is not enough because it is the second cheating scandal in two seasons And potentially illegal cars have hit Jacob Abel de Dale Coyne who rushes from the field.
Cindric and Ruzewski had already been suspended by Indycar for the race and the two teams sentenced a fine of $ 100,000. This is the second consecutive year, Cindric and Ruzewski were suspended from Indy 500.
Rivals have asked Penske to tackle the situation since Sunday by asking if Indycar and Indy 500 can continue to operate without an independent leader absent from any Penske employee.
The problem for the Penske team started before the fast shooting of 12 on Sunday, when the owner of the rival team, Chip Ganassi, was part of a choir of competitors who accused her of cheating. They noticed that unprepared changes had been made to the rear attenuator, a safety device designed to absorb and reduce the force of the impacts, and the hypothesis was that the modifications would have given the two team cars an aerodynamic advantage in their qualification series with four laps.
A more in -depth investigation has shown that the Newgarden winning car last year which is displayed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway museum has the same illegal modification, as is the automotive team that Penuni brought to the White House last month. The rivals claim to have photos indicating that the modification has been in place for some time.
Helio Castroneves, who won three Indy 500 while driving for the Penske team, was one of the few who doubted that the team tricked and believed that Cindric explains that the illegal modification was for aesthetic purposes only. Penske, after all, requires that everything he has to be a virgin and with such purified lines and the possible air.
“I think they did something to look good. I don’t think the little lip (adjusted) will make them three miles on time faster,” said Castroneves. “I know how Roger works. He wants to do everything that is beautiful, perfect, brilliant. I think it was, once again, an error, touching an area that they are not supposed to. In the rules book, they are not supposed to touch. I think the series is right. But they don’t need anything like it would have changed anything.
Colton Herta d’Andretti Global also did not think that this last scandal was as harmful as the team last year Penske Fiasco.
“Do I think they had it to qualify on Saturday? Absolutely for sure. Do I think that is why they were fast? Absolutely not,” said Heta. “I imagine that this would be equivalent to the smallest margins of drag. It is always disappointing to see the team find yourself again in something, but sorry, it’s very different from 50 additional horses and I will not be exceeded because of what they did.”
Herta refers to the Penske scandal last year when the team was taken in a push manipulation in which Newgarden turned out to have access to an additional boost of power when he should not have had the opening of the season. He was stripped of his victory and Penske Cindric suspended for two racesincluding Indy 500.
Cindric is the biggest name to fall into this scandal. He is a member of the Penske Hall of Fame team and has been part of the organization since 2000 as president of Penske Racing Inc., he has long been supposed to be the Successor of Penske on the race part of the Penske Empire.
Cindric was raised to the role of president of Penske Performance in 2005 and, until February, mainly managed the daily operations of all the Penske race properties.
But the right man of Penske In February, most of his roles was stripped Although he said he had chosen to step back as a global leader in the organization. He remained president of the Indycar program.
Cindric is the father of the driver Nascar Austin Cindric.
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