Kudos for David Land for covering this; its' no understatement to say this is a bombshell decision by Roger Penske to fire arguably one of the biggest players in motorsports in Tim Cindric (along w/two additional members from Team Penske) over the attenuator scandal roiling this year's Indy 500.
(TL/DR on that: Prior to Sunday's Fast 12 qualifying session, Tech inspectors - at the behest of rival Chip Ganassi and others, spotted an illegal modification to the attenuators' on both the #12 of Will Power and the #2 of Josef Newgarden. Both cars were pulled from the qualifying line and will start on Row 11 this Sunday. The attenuator, located at the back of the cars, is a safety device intended to reduce the shock/g-forces from a rearward-facing crash and is thus considered a non-modifiable part of the car.)
Bold move by IndyCar and one that will have reverberations throughout not just the IndyCar Series but likely through part of NASCAR as well (because Tim's son, Austin Cindric, drives for Penske in the NASCAR Cup Series). Definitely something worth following as time moves on.
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