Will Power pans IndyCar’s closed pit rule

Power harps on the same idiotic rule AR1.com has criticized IndyCar about for years

IndyCar driver Will Power pulled no punches in the post-race Zoom video conference after Saturday night's IndyCar race.

The rule that AR1.com has harped on for years relates to yellow caution flags and when it comes out and then the following closed pits action.

Often the yellow flag drops and the back of the field gets to pull into pit road first, before the leaders, and before IndyCar closes the pits.

“It’s frustrating when you’re so quick and you keep getting screwed by IndyCar and yellow flags because the pit is closed," said Power.

“That is the most frustrating, annoying thing in history. It’s such a bad rule, it should be changed and it should have been changed this year and it hasn’t."

“I just want to have normal races where abnormal things don’t happen," Power said. “Maybe we’ll change our tactic and just qualify horribly and the way the rules are now, you go to the front. I prefer to work hard and try to be good."

Power said he felt that drivers such as Newgarden and himself were robbed of an opportunity to finish up front Friday, when Simon Pagenaud took the checkered flag ahead of Scott Dixon.

“I would have won the race (Friday) with Newgarden right up there," Power said. “Dixon wouldn’t have got that freebie win (referring to another race). That’s what I say about the season. Screw that ‘keeping that pits closed’ crap."

"They just need to change the rule," Power said. “They need to make it fair to people who put a hard, good effort in and spend a lot of money to be at the front. Not to be screwed and basically get a drive through because the yellow falls at the wrong time. It’s just a horrible rule and there’s a solution for it but they don’t want to change it. They should change it. It’s just a terrible rule."

Winning an IndyCar race is many times a crap shoot because of the closed pit rule instead of a virtual safety car. Luck rules instead of skill.