IndyCar: KVSH Racing fined over Bourdais' underweight car - crash.net

Sebastien Bourdais' race-winning car from last Sunday's Milwaukee IndyFest 250 has been found to have been underweight and the KVSH Racing squad fined $5000 as a result. Bourdais leapt to the front of the race with a canny strategy call midway through the 250-lap race, and then blasted away from the field over the course of the remaining laps. The Verizon IndyCar Series official announcement that the car had been found in breach of rule 14. 3. 1. 1 relating to minimum car weight offered no further details about the scale of the infringement or its possible impact on the car's... Twice before, race-winning cars have received post-race penalties from the series but still been allowed to keep their wins. In both cases, the cars involved were from the Dale Coyne Racing team: some illegal bodywork components were found on Justin Wilson's car after his victory at Texas Motor Speedway in 2012, while Carlos Huertas' shock win at Houston last year was... Source: www.crash.net