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INDYCAR: 14 Cars Possibly Facing 10-Spot Penalties
UPDATE: 11 Chevrolets that will lose 10 spots due to motor changes, along with Sebastien Bourdais, Katherine Legge, and now Oriol Servia.
The Chevrolet camp will have two to three guests from Lotus somewhere between 11th and 26th on the grid for Sunday's race. (Photo: Marshall Pruett)
In addition to the full fleet of 11 Chevrolet drivers that will lose 10 qualifying positions this weekend due to “unapproved” motor changes, add Sebastien Bourdais, Katherine Legge and possibly even Oriol Servia to the list.
As the manufacturer announced on Thursday, Chevrolet has asked its teams to install fresh engines for this weekend’s 85-lap Long Beach Grand Prix after reliability concerns emerged earlier in the week at Sonoma.
Although the exact nature of the issue was not specified, Chevrolet’s bold move was done as more of a pre-emptive maneuver than as a result of actual engine failures necessitating new units to be pressed into service.
Lotus finds itself in a similar situation with two of its five entries, and called for pre-emptive changes in the cars of Sebastien Bourdais and Oriol Servia.
While Bourdais’ Dragon Racing car has already received its replacement powerplant, Servia and his Lotus DRR team have been forced into a more challenging scenario.
Servia, who incurred a 10-spot penalty at Barber for changing engines during practice, needed to remove that unit in favor of a motor that was expected to arrive on Thursday, but when it failed to arrive as expected, the team was left with no choice but to re-install the engine in question to be used during Friday practice.
Once the new engine arrives from England, Lotus DRR intends to perform an engine change, delivering the Spaniard his second consecutive 10-spot penalty.
UPDATE: Lotus DRR confirmed the team changed Servia's engine Friday morning, locking in the 10-spot penalty for Sunday.
With 13 10-spot penalties already on the cards this weekend—exactly half of the 26-car field—that figure was increased to 14 on Thursday when an unexpected problem was experienced in Legge’s Dragon Racing car.
The unprecedented wave of penalties was the primary topic of discussion on Thursday, and this reporter learned that although the concept of modifying the premature engine change penalty to affect the manufacturers (rather than the drivers) is slowly gaining momentum within the series, an amendment to rule, if it happens at all, wouldn’t come before Round 4 at Brazil.
Marshall Pruett is SPEED.com's Auto Racing Editor, covering IndyCar and sports cars. He also contributes to Road & Track and Racecar Engineering. Follow him @MarshallPruett on Twitter.
As the manufacturer announced on Thursday, Chevrolet has asked its teams to install fresh engines for this weekend’s 85-lap Long Beach Grand Prix after reliability concerns emerged earlier in the week at Sonoma.
Although the exact nature of the issue was not specified, Chevrolet’s bold move was done as more of a pre-emptive maneuver than as a result of actual engine failures necessitating new units to be pressed into service.
Lotus finds itself in a similar situation with two of its five entries, and called for pre-emptive changes in the cars of Sebastien Bourdais and Oriol Servia.
While Bourdais’ Dragon Racing car has already received its replacement powerplant, Servia and his Lotus DRR team have been forced into a more challenging scenario.
Servia, who incurred a 10-spot penalty at Barber for changing engines during practice, needed to remove that unit in favor of a motor that was expected to arrive on Thursday, but when it failed to arrive as expected, the team was left with no choice but to re-install the engine in question to be used during Friday practice.
Once the new engine arrives from England, Lotus DRR intends to perform an engine change, delivering the Spaniard his second consecutive 10-spot penalty.
UPDATE: Lotus DRR confirmed the team changed Servia's engine Friday morning, locking in the 10-spot penalty for Sunday.
With 13 10-spot penalties already on the cards this weekend—exactly half of the 26-car field—that figure was increased to 14 on Thursday when an unexpected problem was experienced in Legge’s Dragon Racing car.
The unprecedented wave of penalties was the primary topic of discussion on Thursday, and this reporter learned that although the concept of modifying the premature engine change penalty to affect the manufacturers (rather than the drivers) is slowly gaining momentum within the series, an amendment to rule, if it happens at all, wouldn’t come before Round 4 at Brazil.
Marshall Pruett is SPEED.com's Auto Racing Editor, covering IndyCar and sports cars. He also contributes to Road & Track and Racecar Engineering. Follow him @MarshallPruett on Twitter.
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