LONG BEACH, Calif. — A tire changer had his feet clipped by the car of Will Power but avoided serious injury Sunday during the Long Beach Grand Prix.
The incident left Caio Collet crew member Ryan Marzec with sore feet (X-rays showed no broken bones). But it left Power frustrated.
He wasn’t mad at the penalty but just the circumstance, as he was given a pass-through penalty for hitting a crew member on pit road.
He finished 19th.
Before talking to the media, Power did talk to members of Collet’s crew. Power had Christian Lundgaard on his outside as he was trying to leave his pit stall and tried to squeeze his car between Lundgaard and Marzec.
“It’s a very, very tight pit lane,” Power told me and another reporter after the race. “I feel bad that I hurt the guy. It’s very difficult to almost have three cars wide here, but I don’t think I could have gone any more left.
“I think I was almost touching [Lundgaard]. … You are not going to see somebody’s ft. [You’re being told someone’s] exterior, exterior so that you’re trying on the market and I should have simply nicked his ft.”
Marzec accomplished the pit cease however was then taken for X-rays. He was launched from the INDYCAR medical unit after the race.
Energy, a two-time collection champion, mentioned the penalty was justified. “These guys acquired to have the ability to really feel secure in pit lane,” he mentioned. Greater than something, he was annoyed that he had one other unhealthy lead to his first 12 months at Andretti International.
“That may be a very disappointing end result on numerous fronts. You ran over a man, however you’re additionally ending one other [race with] simply horrible outcomes,” Energy mentioned.
