INDIANAPOLIS — Three drivers who completed within the high 12 within the Indianapolis 500 — together with second-place finisher Marcus Ericsson — had been re-positioned to the rear of the end order Monday for technical violations.
The Andretti World vehicles of Marcus Ericsson (second) and Kyle Kirkwood (sixth) and the Prema Racing automobile of Callum Ilott (twelfth) all failed post-race inspection.
Every group was fined $100,000 and the group/competitors supervisor for every was suspended for one race.
The Ericsson and Kirkwood penalties had been the results of modifications to the Dallara-supplied Vitality Administration System covers and the mounting factors from the covers to A-arms utilizing unapproved spacers and components.
Ilott’s automobile failed left facet minimal end-plate peak.
The groups can attraction the penalties, and Andretti World in an announcement mentioned it might take step one of the appeals course of and ask for a full overview from a overview facilitator. Ericsson was credited with a Thirty first-place end and Kirkwood with a Thirty second-place end.
“The group 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 principles, then that’s the principles. We respect the integrity of the game.”
Ericsson mentioned he talked with members of his group as we speak after studying concerning the penalty.
“Everybody is admittedly unhappy and type of heartbroken about it as a result of it was an enormous end result for all of us,” Ericsson mentioned. “It is a winner-takes-it-all race and I used to be heartbroken yesterday how shut we had been to win it nevertheless it nonetheless was as nice end result.
“To get that taken away was fairly powerful for all of us.”
Prema Racing will not attraction the penalty to Ilott, who has now completed thirty third.
“Whereas the identical wing was utterly unique, efficiently handed tech a number of occasions all through the month, and the problem did not result in any efficiency achieve, the automobile ended up being non-compliant with the principles on the finish of the race, so the group accepts full duty,” the group mentioned in an announcement.
“The group is at the moment 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 overlaying motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seaside) Information-Journal. Comply with him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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