IndyCar sends 2 cars to back of Indianapolis 500 field for rules violations
IndyCar penalized drivers Caio Collet and Jack Harvey for making unapproved changes to their cars for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 qualifying.
Both cars will now start in the final two spots of the 33-car starting grid in next weekend’s race.
Post-qualifying technical inspection revealed the rules violations, IndyCar said in a statement.
The teams can appeal.
Collet, a rookie with A.J. Foyt Enterprises, and Harvey, a veteran with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, also will forfeit their pit positions.
And Collet will lose the three points he accumulated for making the 12-car pole shootout to Scott Dixon and Rinus Veekay.
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