In Case You Missed It

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With that out of the way here is a run down of the headlines over the past few days for all who missed them.

Graham Rahal has been placed on probation after his contact with Marco Andretti at Long Beach on Sunday. I asked chief steward, Beaux Barfield on Twitter, "What will be a violation of probation and what will the penalty then be?" To which Barfield responded, "To quote the rulebook, '...heightened scrutiny...' and '...more severe penalty...'."

Wade Cunningham will be making an announcement today. Speculation is he will be announced as driving for AJ Foyt's team at the Indianapolis 500 in May. Cunningham participated in 4 races last year for Sam Schmidt Motorsports, the twin 275's at Texas, Kentucky and the abandoned Las Vegas season finale. He started 8th for race one at Texas and was in the top 10 for most of that race before contact with Charlie Kimball. For the second race he drew 2nd on the grid but was a non-factor in his backup car. At Kentucky he started 15th and raced his way to a 7th place finish. He started 12th at Las Vegas and way 22nd when the race was abandoned.

Michel Jourdain Jr. is reportedly in the running for the second Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan Racing seat at the Indianapolis 500, which was supposedly a done deal for Luca Filippi. Prior to this season, RLL Racing talked about running three cars at Indianapolis with Sato, Filippi and Jourdain as their drivers. It is not out of the running that they do run three cars but Filippi's debut in the Izod IndyCar Series may have to be put on hold until after the month of May. Nothing official has been announced.