Arrow McLaren ace Pato O’Ward has hit ▨out at Team Penske after the latter skipped the Fast 12 for the Indianapolis 500 after technical drama꧋.

🎶P🐓enske’s IndyCar squad was engulfed in a major controversy on Sunday when Josef Newgarden’s car was found to be in breach of the series’ technical rules. Specifically, Penske was found guilty of a “body fit violation on the rear attenuator” on the #2 Dallara-Chevrolet - raising💦 several eyebrows in the paddock.

Although Will Power’s car was cleared in technical inspection, it carried the same modification, pro💛mpting Penske to withdraw both cars from the final segment of the car🐲.

The team’s th🧸ird driver, Scott McLaughlin, was already forced to mis🤪s the session after damaging his primary car in a major practice shunt.

F൩ollowing Sunday’s drama, McLaren star O’Ward took aim at Penske, saying a team of its calibre doesn’t “need to be doing that stuff.”

He also feels IndyCar should have spotteওd the modification earl🧜ier and given other teams a fair chance at qualifying higher up the grid.

"They weren't accidentally doing it because they had the blowtorch right there in order to get it out," said O'Ward, who168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: qualified on the front row. "Honestly, I feel for [Jacob] Abel and for everybody that 🍃did the disqualifications or the last chance qualifying. Those cars weren't in reg🐈ulations.

"🦩I'm not an engineer, so I can't tell you what they were doing, how much speed that it is or if it is any speed. Obviously, it's not in regulation. The rule is pretty black and white﷽.

“Those cars should have been in the last-chance qualifier. Like, those cars should have never — obviously, they didn't do anything in the Fast 12, but they should have been brought into the LCQ because ওthey had that yesterday, I guarantee you....until someone pointed it out today.

“Those cars, if they're disqualified today, thꦉey should have been disqualified yesterday.

"It's a shame r🐷eally because they don't need to be doing that stuff. They're a great team. They have got great drivers. Why are doing that? It makes no sense."