Will Power, Scott McLoglin, and Joseph Newgarden all showed their frustrations after the end of Indicated Indi 200 mid-ohio as the team’s problems continue this season.
Despite McLaglin’s confidence that the car looked good, Kiwi failed to make it last from the Q1 Group one and will start from 21st position for tomorrow’s race.
The team was informed that he proceeded to do two rounds on his lap “Just missed”, McLaglin replied to the team: “Dude, the car is very good. Why f ***.”
McLaglin’s race strategist, Ben Bretzman tried to calm the driver, stating that it was a “super, super tight” group, but it did not reduce his frustrations.
Once stopped in his box, McLaglin could be heard taking oath several times and asking: “What was the difference? F *** me.”
Once out of the car, McLaglin spoke to FS1 and said: “I just get up or you just reach a bad place. You have to close back, you can’t use your tire to the right place, so actually the Odissi battery is really surprised to the team.
“I really feel that it should be easy to move there, therefore, it is very bad.”
The two -time world champions Will Power and Joseph Newguarden were placed together in Group two and the two were also finished at possible point as soon as possible in the qualifying session.
While Newgarden would take a dip in the 18th place, Power was ahead in the 21st, which has already been a difficult weekend for Australians.
Newgarden abolished the P9 in the Q1 Group two and his strategist, Luke Mason, stated on his in-lap that he “needed a two hundredth for transfer.”
Prior to a silence from Newguarden before answering: “[I] This man found a little f ***** by this man. Everywhere f ****** is dirt, [I] AF ****** went through the cloud in one turn. ,
American driver was included by several drivers, who was sharing disappointment towards traffic over all weekends with first electricity over the weekend. Face Alex Palu Practice two after two.
Power was sworn in several times in the current championship leader, as he was confident that he was blocked throughout the session by the Spaniard.
After his abolition, Power spoke to the first team. Apparently frustrated, he said: “I think, half -tenth we missed?”
Power’s strategist replied in a downbeat tone: “Yes, maybe less than that.”
The Australian driver shared after his confrontation with Palu that he was angry because it was “trying to guess what is doing our car and the team”.
Whether it was a direct impact on the overall position of power in merit, it is not clear but while the power starts from 21st, Palu will begin on the pole.
Establishment of a banging lap time, Palu was two-tenth and in the third compared to the nearest car of Christian Lundguard in its arrow McLaren and the third was more than seven-tenth faster than Simpson.
After the session, Palu said: “Ever since I started with chip Ganasi racing, we have very good cars, but I would say that we have always struggled to qualify, so it is unprecedented this year.
“The speed we have in cars, we show in every race track, it’s amazing.”
Penscay has fought all the season with qualifying speed and is one of its most difficult sessions so far.
Both Joseph Newguarden and Will Power were disqualified from the Indi 500, as their cars were found with illegally revised rear atanuators which is a specific security part.
In response to the scandal, the team fired several major figures including the team president, Tim Cindric, Managing Director, Ron Ruzevsky and General Manager, Kail Moyer.
At the end of this week, the team announced that it found a replacement for syndric with Jonathan Dioguid as the team president.
Diuguid first led the Porsche Penske Motorsport to win 2024 and 2025 24 hours of Detona win.
The DIUGUID was involved in his promotion with a law named Competition Director for the team by Travis Act.
