At Saturday’s Rexall Edmonton Indy Danica Patrick was driven off the track by the team owner’s son, Marco Andretti.
The incident led to a major closed-door meeting that lasted for an hour after the race.
Rather than storm down and put the finger of blame on Marco Andretti, as she has been prone to do with rival drivers Ryan Briscoe is this year’s Indianapolis 500 and Milka Duno last weekend at Mid-Ohio, Patrick let her teammate off the hook.
“Marco is my teammate, and I know he wouldn’t do things on purpose, so it’s all good,” Patrick said.
However, his father, Michael Andretti thought enough was enough after the team’s female star was taken out of the race by “The Golden Child”—who happens to be his son.
Kanaan was the highest finishing driver for AGR and he finished ninth. After Marco clipped Patrick on lap 78 when the right front of Andretti’s car hit the left rear of Patrick’s car entering the 10th turn in a battle for ninth place, it send both cars into the pits for repairs.
Patrick’s IndyCar suffered a flat left rear and Andretti’s car suffered front wing damage. Patrick’s car had to be restarted by the Delphi IndyCar safety team but it dealt a critical blow to both drivers’ chances in the race.
Andretti would finish 17th and Patrick 18th, and both were summoned into the back of one of the AGR transporters for a closed-door meeting.
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