Bob Pockrass

FOX Motorsports Insider

Santino Ferrucci kept his second-place finish but was penalized 26 points, and the A.J. Foyt Racing team was fined $25,000 for his car being underweight in the driver compartment following the Detroit Grand Prix.

INDYCAR rules require the combined weight of the driver and the weight in a ballast box in a location forward of the seatback to be 185 to 186 pounds. His car was underweight in that area. The purpose of that rule is to minimize any advantage a driver might have because of how much the driver weighs.

But Ferrucci’s car was also 10 pounds over the minimum total weight of the car of 1,785 pounds. Typically, a lighter car would go faster.

Ferrucci was issued a 25-point penalty and also lost the point he was awarded for leading a lap. The team also lost the prize money from the event.

Ferrucci dropped from 10th to 14th in the standings.

Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent decades covering motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass.

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