Pato O'Ward Calls Out Penske Drivers for Misusing Push to Pass: "It's Not an Accident"
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- 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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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
You may not like what he says, but you can't say he's not honest in his opinion. No sugar-coating here.
I mean, of course the dude who originally came in second and is now credited with the win is gonna say what he said.
@@nathan1sixteen I think there are drivers who would have chosen their words more carefully, especially when talking about the Penske organization. Yes, he benefitted, but he didn't tiptoe around the issue, either. I like that.
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.
Did you even watch this? Actually watch this video.
At least he had the stones to be in front of mics today and not a written statement about it which Power and Scotty Mac did. But busted and public opinion is now the court Newgarden.
@@101876mikehe also used it 4 more times than Scott and Will didn’t use it at all. Scott’s written statement sufficed, for me at least
Where there is smoke, there is fire. This surely wasn't the first time that crap happened.
it wasnt. scotty mac said on the other video from this channel, 2:54 "just done it, weve done it before in the past" how many times in the past..? who's we? the 3 team or team penske..?
Pato is saying what we all are thinking
Maybe he should try to win a race
@@jamiewilson3668 he won at St. Pete ;-)
@@jamiewilson3668he has... several.
Although he is mad inconsistent, and I say that as one of his fans.
He was terrible last weekend!!
Always been a Pato fan, even more now
I just want to know where Dixon is hiding the extra fuel
RIGHT!!!
Dixon learnt the hard way in 2007 at Chicagoland on turn 3 of the last lap to lose the series.
He is right, the engineers are always analyzing all the data lap by lap. How can they not see anything like that.
How many times and how many drivers could have done it before?
They’ve all got secret sauce. It’s racing. Idk why everyone is so shocked, really lol
It was from testing hybrids right before St. Pete
Agree 100%
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?
No they just caught them In practice I think at Long Beach
Yeah it was activated in Long Beach warmups. Penske engineers got lost in their lie by not turning off the "cheat coding"
How long has Penske been cheating? How long ago should they be looking?
Colton Herta noticed it and pointed it out at St Pete, but Indycar didn't investigate.
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.
Cool. Nobody cares you have a problem
If Tim Cindric is fired maybe the nascar team can replace his son in the #2 car and get a better driver
Replace him with who, there’s no one in either the xfinity or truck series who’s close, not even close so, not atm.
That was deep, but genius. 😂
Chase elliott to the number 2 car. His dad always wanted him to drive for Ford
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.
Man, I just gained a ton more respect for Pato.
Well said pato !!!!!!!!! Penske shoud not race anymore this year !!!!!!!
This is exactly how I feel. Zero tolerance for hacking the cars.
More manipulation to come when the hybrid system fires up. Stay tuned.
Roger isn't the CEO but his name is on the Series in Penske Entertainment Group. He owns the series. I agree with you but not happening.
One of the stupidest comments and logic yet. Commenters around here are really dumb as a nice way to put it.
100% agree. The team should be banned for the year if not for the entire series. Set an example
Im a lifelong fan of rodger penske and in this situation he should divest intrest in the series sell it now
No one is interested in buying it. He sells, it's gone.
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.
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
and I think he was sincere. that being said I work in "Engineering" and this type of thing would always be noticed. be scrutinized. be monitored. the guy who should be shedding buckets as Murray Walker would say is Tim Cindric. As team leader of the #2 Penske car, the fish stinks from the head down. His response to the media was lame and awkward. My take.....it'll play out very slowly and subtly. At the end of the season or even after Indy, Tim Cindric will be replaced as President of Penske Racing. watch this space.
No he kept in lying. No integrity!
Where was ROGER giving a major press conference, taking 100 percent of the blame for the scandal. I am sick that he hid from view and let Josef hang in the wind, with that tortuous press conference. A weasel, not what a team leader, team owner should do. He is a total weasel.
Im with pato. We need an outside investigator to get to the bottom of it. Its crazy someone changed software. Straight jailbroke the indycar.
What to investigate?! Software change? They allowed to do it 😂
@@madlopt that is the official line. But it's a lie. If they were testing a hybrid system it would have nothing to do with p2p, in fact you'd need a whole new ecu mapping, everything.
I get that on its face it sounds like a simple mistake. But it wasn't, and it was used and instead of the drivers coming right out and saying hey I had an advantage, they shut up and waited.
Penske owns indycar, owns indy motorspeedway. He will get away with whatever he wants. The pr spin and people believe it; I always wondered who actually believed the spin, now I know.
@@natel7382 "Nothing to do with p2p" is as far from correct as you can get. Unlike other hybrid systems in a series like IMSA, the IndyCar hybrid system is _directly_ tied to P2P. The cars will run as they always have after going hybrid until P2P is pressed and the electric motor currently being tested adds 100HP for the duration of P2P. The hybrid system only exists to create the P2P effect. So yes, it makes sense that portions of the software were turned on/off to facilitate hybrid testing for the new IndyCars.
Push to pass and alternate tires are 2 of the dumbest things that have ever been put into IndyCar racing
Push to pass shouldnt exist at all. Either run the cars or dont.
I agree with him but lets be honest im sure this happens quite often look at toronto last year palou with a damaged front wing while saving fuel pulled away from the field to catch luundgard in the day of spec racing that shouldnt have been possible
Careful there, bud. There might come a day when you need/want a ride with Penske and they’ll remember the drivers who publicly bad mouthed them
Nah he’s a g
I mean, by your logic Will Power should also be afraid of loyalty backlash since he didn't press the button while the other two did.
I'd rather have an honest driver who never drives for Penske, than a scared driver who is worried if they'd ever get the chance.
Other teams can win too.
Nailed it!
When he races, does he wear his helmet backwards? Asking for a friend...🤔
Meanwhile in yesterday's race, he hit just about everyone, but I'm sure those were totally accidental...
Duuude!!! What a terrible weekend. He can be so freaking good, but he is very inconsistent. I've been a fan for 4 years now, and it is always a crap shoot!!
you gotta wonder if it is an accident or not. they got caught at St Pete but was it happening before that.
it brings doubt to every race they have participated in
they know they shouldn't push the button.. even when it was enabled... And the did it.
My question all along: with all the tech Arrow McLaren has available how in the world did they not realize Newgarden was using PTP on restarts in St Pete? 50 HP over everyone else is not a difficult thing to see with the telemetry data etc they have available, and other drivers just KNOW when it's being used by other drivers around them. Not to mention the in-car....did Penske put a different button on their wheel and disable the PTP lights? They HAD to have known then or they're incompetent. Then Josef's presser, which was so nonsensical it was beyond cringe....a guy who knows he's been busted cheating tying himself in knots trying to say it was but it wasn't, he did but he didn't. The whole thing doesn't add up and there's more to this story. What that is, I have no clue. My guess is this was known by the other teams after St Pete and they decided to hold off so they could to sandbag Roger and the Penske team/drivers right before the month of May, but again, who knows?
"how often do you read the rulebook?" Sorry that's a dumb ass question.
Didn’t understand that one either. Is he trying to defend Newgarden somehow? Lol????
I bet they were doing this last year at some point.
Pato is my guy, but he can be tough to watch on track.
Like he said all this, which i firmly agree with, and then went out and had one of the worst weekends ever, culminating with taking out his poor rookie teammate on the last lap.
Ooof!!!
Its also not an accident to wreck both your teammates 2 weeks in a row🤡🤡
Reality - why would they need to cheat.
Maybe it is exactly what was said. All these other drivers need to be careful in how they respond. There are a lot of young fans watching.
Yes and the fans now see the ugly truth.
If you're not cheating you're not trying
@@antoniestrada1972 That outlook is the real problem
@@antoniestrada1972 bigup shyster kru.
All teams know that every aspect of engine control is computer programed, everything is recorded like a laptop. Off hand, I honestly believe this was not caused on purpose. Had it been just one of a teams car, i would have been more suspicious. But all three, I don't think so.
Everyone of them know how that button works and whats happen when you push it!!
I now DESPISE Roger Penske, letting his drivers roll under the bus when HE, Penske, the supposed "boss" should have had a major press conference taking full responsibility. Lost all respect for that team, most of all Penske.
Dude owns indycar, Indianapolis motor speedway, and penske. He knew exactly what he was doing. It was dumb luck we found out.
It’s Cindric who should be fired
Penske isn't running the team now. It's Tim Cyndric.
Roger would not have a clue, he owns the series so he absolutely would not be seeking such awful publicity
Major press conference. 😂😂😂😂😂😂stupidity never ends with some of you.
Absolutely disgusted by Penske. Especially the fact these teams owned by the guy who owns the series, and Indy speedway! I'm going to guess this has been going on for a long time. As heavy as the penalties were, they are way too light. Won't respect these jerks again.
I think he’s a little salty. I agree for the most part though.
definitely was no accident if they try to do the same in laguna beach and got caught . wonder if they dont will be doing the same again this race
This whole thing has helped indycar free media,media and advertising was nowhere to be found until this and a mid tear driver making comments like that is risky.you could gain fans or lose fans in a series that is lacking fan base be careful,the fans purchase merchandise that give you a paycheck even if you don’t win .good or bad Free media attention 👍
The race director enables p2p right. If so that’s not a grey area it’s a black and white rule
Pato, no one say it happened accidentaly 😂 Newgarden say the team thought it's legal due to bad communicatiin with Indycar officials
While Patos opinion are and seem correct, everyone is trying something. But Penske got caught. A test and 3 races and they did not see it ? Sure…….Pato seems to be a good driver, but to aggressive, he reminds me of a young Juan Pablo Montoya, and many drivers who and until they got it, they crashed and made mistakes all over. Pipe down Pato, the slower the faster you will go.
Soft. I’m glad we have drivers that give actual interviews now not just PR speak but the whining AFTER being handed a win is a bad look
He saw through newgarden’s tears
Pato O'ward sounds like some one called Lewis in F1.
Hey Pato honda had push to pass first.
meanwhile... he had more contact during the race that a UFC heavyweight
lol push to pass? this is such a joke of a scandal. you put a boost button in a car and you think it wont get abused?... lol... the essence of racing is to make the car you are competing with as fast as possible without getting busted. I doubt the majority of cars that have ever won have been perfectly legal. ppl get busted, they make new regs to catch it in the future and you move on. everyone going to the extreme needs to sit down and let the old dogs handle this. everything else is just jealousy and power moves against penske.
Overrated driver
I must be missing something. Pato even said its all looked at, so how can you even get away it. Also, as technical as these cars are, you would think it wouldn't even be able to be used until they hit proper spot on track 🤷
Penske found a software hack whereby they could activate the PTP system and prevent it from relaying data to timing and scoring during specific periods during the race when PTP was supposed to be disabled. So they could get the advantage of added power, not be "charged" for the seconds they were using it, and nobody would notice in real time what was going on.
Wow dumbest comment of the day. Clearly they cheated the system
Read the article by Indystar
This is what happens when a team owner buys the whole series .. conflict of interest.. they were blackmailed by Andretti or McLaren .. someone caught wind. They had to come forward and have the series punish 😉 Penske (bro owns the series) complete slap on the wrist.
If you think having two of your three drivers effectively miss a race in the year as a "slap on the wrist" then you shouldn't be commenting on racing.
@@waltersobchak8080 penske fan?
@@Chris-sm2uj No just not retarded
@@Chris-sm2uj No just not retarded
@@Chris-sm2uj No just not retarded
The team should be banned and all previous wins 🏆 revoked.
Tin foil hat time, go back through last season's data and maybe the one before. See if old Roger has been cheating since he bought Indycar.
How about placing most of the blame on the Penske team, Joseph shouldn't have been able to use PSP. Like pato as well
Push to pass is about the dumbest thing that's ever happened in IndyCar racing.
Its better than DRS as that benefits the chasing car and not the one leading. Push to pass isn't free either. 50+ HP means more fuel used during push to pass. So it isn't free or without cost and it isn't finite. DRS is really desperate attempt to make the marginal racing in F1 better.
#BooGarden
Just jealous your not driving for Penske
Pato looking like an idiot again. Trash needs to put his hat on the right way. Hope he finds the wall again many times this season.
Over a baseball cap? Have a nice day.
Caught red handed! Hate cheaters