I like the call. Because his own teammate said he blocked him, which makes me believe it was a block. It is irrelevant that it was at the end of the race. We always complain about consistency in the officiating and a drive through penalty in the first lap should be a drive through in the last lap. In F1 you get 3 laps to do your penalty. I don't know the IRL rule, but if the race ended before his 3 laps were up, I think adding the bogey time of a drive through added to his finish time would be appropriate.
I just saw the tape of the driver's meeting before Edmonton: Yes, they said you were required to take the outside line if you were in front. The line I couldn't believe was just before that: "There should be no defending or blocking" Wha? No defending? That's not racing, that's qualifying. Accurate, if inconsistent, application of a totally stupid rule. Even F1 permits one blocking move. If IRL has banned *ANY* defending of a position, they might as well hand the trophy to the top qualifier, and skip the race completely. But on the other side of the pond (and on tape delay), it was nice, in Rallye Finland, to see Kimi getting a chance to mix it up with Juha Kankkunen. The rallye veteran (who raced for both Ove Andersson and Jean Todt) got to go up against an F1 WDC, and Kimi got to run against a rallye legend from his land.
