In fact to optimize the move you would take an arc where the following car cannot take the full slipstream without either hitting the end of the barrier or exiting the corner early and risking a spin. It’s going to end in tears if it’s not banned. People will get more creative and aggressive with it until it’s stopped.

at a certain point there were racing in pity entry but ok
It was exciting but absolutely dangerous, if either hit the barrier: red mist and flying parts right into pit and the track.

Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to put into the rules. There are reasons why F1 made rules about crossing the pit entry and exit lines, exactly because of accidents / almost accidents happened at high speed.

Exactly, I like Max but he didn't deserve that win.
If they had did it according to rules it couldn't have restarted.
Let's clear that last lap up. If Marcus had not swerved at turn two he probably would have won.
If he had moved right and floored it when Newgarden did what he did, he probably would have won.

The "finish under green flags no matter what" mindset only seems to cause problems, especially in the slap dash, unfair manner it's been applied that has disadvantaged huge numbers of drivers (people tend to forget it wasn't just whoever was leading at the time who was disadvantaged). Finishing under yellow or declaring a result early if red flagged is fine.

Maybe the line is already drawn. Like, what if you are not allowed to cross the pit line, make it a harsher penalty if for defending purposes. The zigzagging won't be nullified and I think it's ok. There'd have been casualties if something went wrong in 2023.

The reason it was done that way is because Penske owns the track and it was a Penske driver in second. Everyone who watches the 500 knows first is a sitting duck on a restart. Penske rigged it for Joseph. That simple.

Yes! Finally a motorsport fan! On a track that is all about the battle of slipstreaming you need to allow… well… slipstreaming battles.

Agree - I understand Ericsson being sore about it, as he was the one who lost out, but he should probably remember that he was the one who kicked off the train of red flags by wrecking O'Ward, and was lucky to be allowed to participate in the closing laps at all.

@osnola No wonder these guys can't get a super licence!
They should have watched the F1 guys handling Melbourne restarts safely and implemented that strategy.

The best race ending in years was a one lap ending..
so please if driving is possible drive.. its called a race.

Better than burying one of the other competitors or pit crew. Ban the dragon, before the Year of the Dragon gets under way.

Whether Indycar would be willing to penalise the winner of it's biggest race after the end of the race is a different matter though…

But what made it a bad experience was that it was the third restart in just 15 or so laps. The Indy 500 is always going to become frantic towards the end, but maybe an alternative solution to this high number of late race incidents would simply be to take everyone who is not in the top 10 off the track by something like lap 185 or 190.