McLaughlin completed third in St. Petersburg and team-mate Josef Newgarden took the win, however each drivers have been stripped of their outcomes for illegally with the ability to use push-to-pass on the restarts.
Will Energy, who drivers the third entry for Staff Penske, acquired a 10-point penalty however was not disqualified after it was found he didn’t use the overtake system on the restarts.
The up to date outcomes, which got here 45 days following the checkered flag on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn momentary road circuit, noticed Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward promoted because the race winner, with Energy elevated to second and Andretti World’s Colton Herta third.
The result made a major hit to each Newgarden and McLaughlin within the championship standings.
Newgarden, who was the general chief after two points-paying rounds, has now dropped to eleventh with 34 factors. In the meantime, McLaughlin has fallen to twenty ninth within the standings with solely 5 factors after additionally enduring a mechanical concern that led to ending twenty sixth final weekend in Lengthy Seashore.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon assumes the championship lead with 79 factors.
McLaughlin issued the next by way of social media:
“Before everything, I’m proud to be a member of Staff Penske. I totally stand with everybody considered one of my teammates. Merely put, a mistake was made. I’ve the very best stage of integrity and you will need to shield each my very own fame and that of the crew.
“I used to be not conscious of the state of affairs with the software program. On this occasion, I used a single, very transient (1.9 second) deployment of push to go in a bit of the monitor exit of Flip 9 the place it’s usually utilized all through the race. I hit the button out of behavior, however I didn’t go any vehicles nor did I acquire any time benefit. The info, which IndyCar has, confirms all of this info. Whereas I settle for the penalty, I need to be clear that I didn’t acquire a bonus over my opponents.
“IndyCar’s competitors is the very best on this planet and I’d take no pleasure in attaining success in any method aside from actually.
“We are going to all press ahead from right here and concentrate on the duty at hand this weekend in Barber.”
