Pato O'Ward Calls Out Penske Drivers for Misusing Push to Pass: 'It's Not an Accident'

Pato O'Ward spoke to the media including Frontstretch's Christopher DeHarde about IndyCar disqualifying Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin misusing the Push to Pass on starts and restarts.

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[rodentcafeteria]

You may not like what he says, but you can't say he's not honest in his opinion. No sugar-coating here.

[paulcole]

Perfect response - calm and educated, clearly frustrated but not over reacting.
If only he acted like this on track. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️ he could be a champion by now

[beefeekeefee]

Newgarden shouldered the blame, kind of, then spent 25 minutes trying to rationalize and explain away the "mistake" all the while getting more emotional because of the humiliation. Tough lesson.

[Arturo-smtb]

Where there is smoke, there is fire. This surely wasn't the first time that crap happened.

[Unser]

Always been a Pato fan, even more now

[samrod]

Pato is saying what we all are thinking

[mpmonzon]

How many times and how many drivers could have done it before?

[olinaguasalvarado]

He is right, the engineers are always analyzing all the data lap by lap. How can they not see anything like that.

[chetkukuk]

I just want to know where Dixon is hiding the extra fuel

[alexrebmann]

Penske owning Indycars thought he could bend or break the rules. I have a problem that he owns IMS, the series, and owns a team.

[RC.]

If Tim Cindric is fired maybe the nascar team can replace his son in the #2 car and get a better driver

[beefeekeefee]

My question is did IndyCar just go back and review the in car video where they could see the button being pressed and the lights come on with no corresponding data showing up in the data feed to timing and scoring?

[reecetbobby]

Crazy that it took this drama to get people to notice IndyCar again. I was watching Kenny Wallace’s take on this whole thing on here last night and he admitted that he didn’t even know the IndyCar season had started and that the series’ marketing team sucks. And he’s right! Which is a shame because there’s some insanely good drivers and great racing in this series.

[DJArturoMuela]

Patricio has to measure his words because Roger might feel uncomfortable and on a near future pato wouldn't be an option for his team.

[jeffreygortz]

Well said pato Penske shoud not race anymore this year

[SocialAutism]

Man, I just gained a ton more respect for Pato.

[bernardoberner]

Liked Josefs statament about this, very honest just put his hands up and admited he and the team were 100% wrong.
The thing that shocked me a bit tho, was just how emotional he was when talking about his mistake, saying he and the team just thought there had been a rule change and were so certain of it, you could really hear just how stupid he felt by doing that.

You can say all you want, but if you think that was an act, then Josef would be in Hollywood not Indycar, cus if it was an act, he deserves an Oscar for it

[natel]

Im with pato. We need an outside investigator to get to the bottom of it. Its crazy someone changed software. Straight jailbroke the indycar.

[patricknacion]

Im a lifelong fan of rodger penske and in this situation he should divest intrest in the series sell it now

[RobertDetert]

Push to pass and alternate tires are 2 of the dumbest things that have ever been put into IndyCar racing