DeFrancesco was adjudged to have caused the collision on Lap 129 of the previous round of the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series at Texas Motor Speedway that eliminated him and two other drivers.
De Francesco dived up the inside of Graham Rahal’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Honda, as Rahal was battling for 10th with the Meyer Shank Racing-Honda of Helio Castroneves, who was on the high line, on the outside of the RLL car.
