A massive Turn 1 incident involving multiple cars sends the No. 14 airborne.<\/p>\n
The red flag has been displayed.<\/p>\n
\u2014 NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) July 21, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “I am so surprised that they did not call a yellow, as you are just calling for a massive shunt,\u201d O\u2019Ward said. \u201cThere was a solid five seconds of waiting before telling everyone what was coming. I am glad that everybody that was involved in it is okay. I am sorry for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Ward was unimpressed with the gap from the start of the crash to initiating the caution.<\/p>\n “I’m just glad we don’t have any more injured drivers at the end of the day,\u201d he said. \u201cI think IndyCar needs to take a deep dive into the delay in going yellow. That incident started off with Pato having a spin, and not going to a full-course yellow until there’s a car in the catch fence, and we’ve totally crashed two good race cars. It’s just not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The order of crashes was thus: O\u2019Ward spun on his own, then Marcus Ericsson, who was close behind and would have been unlikely to avoid the crash regardless of when a caution was triggered, piled in. Next, it was Pietro Fittipaldi who rode over the nose of O\u2019Ward\u2019s car and briefly flew before crashing down. Then, it was Ferrucci who scaled the front of O\u2019Ward\u2019s car, scraped along the fence with the bottom of his car, and came to a stop upside down 100 feet or more away from O’Ward. The close of the crash was Arrow McLaren teammate Nolan Siegel hitting the front of O\u2019Ward\u2019s car, who was bounced across the track and hit the right-side wall as Toby Sowery hit Siegel from behind and damaged his front wings. Only Sowery continued in the race.<\/p>\n Fittipaldi was another to say there were no warning signs to heed entering the corner and was thankful Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing teammate Graham Rahal snuck through unscathed.<\/p>\n \u201cSomething happened to Pato on that lap,\u201d Fittipaldi said. \u201cHe was quite a few positions ahead of us. There were no yellow flags, no indication, and we all went through the corner and then he was just stopped on the outside wall like that, and then there was nowhere to go. Graham cleared him last minute, and for us, there was nowhere to go.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferrucci added to the list of those who confirmed they were unaware of the crash by O\u2019Ward that awaited him in Turn 1.<\/p>\n \u201cI never saw Pato,\u201d he said. \u201cSo when I came through there, I never saw Pietro clip him and the spotters. There was no yellow, no nothing, so I didn’t know to check up. Just super unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n Siegel also weighed in.<\/p>\n “Not what we’d hope for on the streets of Toronto,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was nowhere to go. I’m disappointed that both cars ended up destroyed. That’s not where we wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n RACER understands IndyCar\u2019s race control\u2019s activation of the caution system coincided with Ericsson\u2019s impact into O\u2019Ward, and prior to the back-to-back hits from Fittipaldi and Ferrucci, but those on their way into the corner behind Ericsson who became involved were either unable to see or react to the yellow in time to avoid O\u2019Ward. RACER also understands race control will review all aspects of the crash and communications that took place in the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The lack of an immediate caution when Pato O\u2019Ward spun and backed into the Turn 1 wall at the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto event, which led to one of the NTT IndyCar Series\u2019 bigger crash sequences in recent years, has drawn the ire of O\u2019Ward and his Arrow McLaren team principal Gavin Ward. 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