Team Pensuke parted ways with IndyCar Series team president Tim Sindrick, managing director Ron Lzevsky and general manager Kyle Moyer on Wednesday amid a discovery of violations of the IndyCar Rules.
“There’s nothing more important than integrity in our sports and the race team,” said Roger Pensuke, the team’s founder and chairman. “We’ve had organizational failures over the past two years and had to make the necessary changes. We apologise for letting our fans, our partners and for letting them down.”
Team Penske said in a statement that he will make more announcements on personnel later this week.
The news comes from the discovery that the car, which was defended by Indianapolis 500 winner Joseph Newgarden and teammate Will Power, had revised its attenuator in qualifying on Sunday’s second day. Indycar announced on Monday that Newgarden’s No. 2 and Power’s No. 15 will be in 32nd and 33rd respectively.
Last April it was discovered that Penske drivers were granted access to the push-to-pass system if they weren’t.
Team strategists were suspended for racing on both cars. This confiscates qualifying points for the Indy 500 and pays a $100,000 fine each.
“The integrity of the Indianapolis 500 is most important, and this violation of the INDYCAR rules for modifications to this part and use of “supplied” is clear.” “The penalty isn’t just starting a place where the car might have qualified anyway if given the opportunity. The car belongs to the field as two of the fastest 33. But starting with the field tail is a proper penalty in this example.”
Cindric, 57, joined Penske in 1999 and saw one of the drivers win the Indianapolis 500 in 10 innings, including Newgarden in 2023 and 2024.
On January 31st, Sindrick chose to take a step back as the overall leader of Team Pensuke’s racing programme.
Sindrick’s son Austin is Team Pensuke’s NASCAR Cup Series driver. He won the 2022 Daytona 500.
– Field-level media
