[greglepore]

PTP is disabled remotely by race control for 30(?) seconds after start and restarts to prevent first corner chaos and wrecks. The process is complicated, but its done by radio communication from race control to the lap timer on the car (software accessible by teams) which then communicates with the ecu (software locked down). Could have been honest mistake, but it was clearly viewable on the teams telemetry. They knew. Were the obligated to say something?
Did it affect the results? Newgarden ran away from the field on restarts at St Pete, you tell me.
Now they just need to find the fuel in Dixon's fire extinguisher bottle.