IndyCar: McLaughlin calls IndyCar races amateurish

After Sunday’s Music City GP, 2nd place finisher Scott McLaughlin, from New Zealand, laid into IndyCar’s restart and red flag policy, saying the series looks amateurish.

“We need to, like, I think we need to start on the start/finish line. We cannot pass until the start/finish line. You’re always going to have these yellows. You’re always going to have these clusters that cause red flags and make us look like…[he stopped short of saying wankers]”

“Yeah, there’s no cadence. Once there’s a yellow flag on a street circuit, it’s just a free-for-all. People bomb. We’re well within our rights to do that. If we want to have a pure
race, we could have had a 10-lap shootout, me and Kyle there at the end. Instead, we’re stop, start, stop, start. The action is fantastic. We just have no race.”

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“I just think everywhere we go, we should have one start/restart line.  We talked about doing it, like, about not passing till the apex of the last corner. At least that.”

“I think when it goes green, there’s kamikazes at the back and drivers don’t care. Well within their right to throw it inside when it turns green. That’s fine. But we just have this
terrible just stop, start, bad-looking finish to races.”

“Everyone is on cold tires. Someone is going to make a mistake. The guy behind him is going to go have a crack. People getting hurt. Rah-rah. I just think it looks amateurish, it really does.”

I’m going to speak to [IndyCar President] Jay (Frye)  about it and [Race Director] Kyle Novak. We just need to go apex last corner or start/finish line. Just make a point where you can’t pass just to get it going.”