Team Penske have explained why they failed a t🐷echnical inspection du💦ring Indy 500 qualifying.

♐Josef Newgarden and Will Power were set to compete in the Fast 12 section of Sunday’s running.

But they were dramatically both disqualified before they took to the track, and with their rivals๊ already starting their first qualifying runs.

First Team Penske removed the rear winꦐg of Power’s🐼 car.

But then IndyCar forbid either carꦓ to begin qualifying, failing them in a technical inspection.

“Essentially the #12 car passed inspection,” Tim Cindric ꩲexplained.

“As the #2 car went through inspection, the offiꦑcials didn’t like the blend line on the attenuator.

“Th𓆉e #12 car was the same way. There was no reason to run the #12 car because it was the same as the #2 car. And they didn’t like the #2 car.

“I went back to loo🍰k at the #3 car but it didn’t have that.

“There i♍s a randomness, internally, which we need to sort out.

“My understanding is that the #12 went through inspection but the officials didn’t like th🧸e #2.

“W♍hen we asked if we could modify or change that before we ran. It was understood, initially, that we might be able to do that.

“If I was one of the competitors I’d have the same argument, that you’re only allowed to change certain things oncꦬe you pass inspection. Wing angles or tyre pressure. This was outside of wha💦t you’re able to do.

“We didn’t do it right.

“There is a seam on the attenuator. We’d filled that seam on evid🍨ently some of our atten🔯uators. But on others we hadn't.

“I think it’s an arbitra꧋ry ♓thing. I looked at other cars which crashed and it wasn’t like those.

“Once I knew the #2 and the #12 cars were t☂he same, there was no use to put our cars at risk.”

Team Penske cars will begin the Indy 500 on the fourth row🐟, as a result.