Rossi offered a stern assessment of the situation, having felt unable to safely extricate himself from the car before the FCY was called.<\/a><\/p>\nCommentator James Hinchcliffe theorised during the broadcast that the FCY had not been thrown to allow the entire field to complete their mandatory pit stops.<\/p>\n
A statement from IndyCar and IndyCar Officiating further clarified the decision making process.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Lap 21, car No. 20 lost power and stopped on the front straightaway on drivers\u2019 right of the track \u2013 off the racing line.<\/p>\n
\u201cCourse marshals followed standard flagging protocol and deployed a standing yellow condition at Marshal Panel 14, with a corresponding waving yellow condition at Marshal Panel S\/F (start-finish) to alert competitors to the stationary car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe escalation to a full course yellow (FCY) was made on Lap 22 as the driver began to exit the race car.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing race control practice, the assessment of whether and when to escalate a local yellow to a FCY included the weighing of the following standard factors: driver egress, vehicle position, recovery vehicle access, safety team locations, laps remaining and the timing of approaching traffic to the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdditional factors on timing of a FCY also included pit windows and the running order of cars on track.\u201d<\/p>\n
IndyCar Officiating will implement a change to the procedure, stating it \u201cwill no longer take into consideration pit windows and the running order of cars on track before deploying a FCY.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Lap 21 incident on Saturday made clear that there needs to be a cleaner standard for how race control moves from a local to a full course yellow,\u201d said Raj Nair, Independent Officiating Board chair for IndyCar Officiating.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndyCar Officiating, with IndyCar\u2019s full support, has made this change of approach to ensure that the only inputs to the full course yellow escalation are safety ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cStreamlining the assessment will also save time as competitive considerations are no longer a factor.\u201d<\/p>\n
IndyCar president J. Douglas Boles detailed the importance of driver safety as the highest priority for race control.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most important job in race control is to ensure the safety of our drivers, crews, safety workers and fans,\u201d said Boles.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaturday highlighted that we must not waver from that central mission and aligning everyone on that philosophy was critical to discuss over the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Independent Officiating Board, the new managing director of officiating, race director and IndyCar are all in agreement and the metrics used to determine when to initiate a full course yellow will now ensure that when there is any risk to driver safety that race control will initiate a full course yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NTT IndyCar Series will implement the change at the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 24.<\/p>\n
Cars have already hit the track for Practice 1, which was topped by Alex Palou with a best speed of 225.937mph.<\/p>\n
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