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Herta: Any excuse Newgarden and Penske have “is bull***t”

Newgarden was stripped of his victory in the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg last month, along with Penske team-mate Scott McLaughlin’s third-place finish, after both were found by IndyCar officials to be in violation of illegally using the overtake boost on restarts.

The infractions were found during the warm-up session in last weekend’s round in Long Beach, which led to IndyCar examining data and coming to the decision 45 days after the event at St. Petersburg. In disqualifying Newgarden, Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward was promoted to the race winner.

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