IndyCar: Power fined $25k; Vautier $10K, Rahal $5k after Fontana

The Verizon IndyCar Series has informed its teams of the penalties stemming from last weekend's MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway, and topping the list is Team Penske's Will Power.

The defending series champion has been fined $25,000 and placed on probation for the rest of 2015 after pushing a member of the medical team after stepping from his crashed No. 12 Verizon Wireless Chevy. Power's emotional response to being pulled toward a safety response vehicle was expressed with a light (but demonstrative) push with both hands against the chest of the male medical attendee.

The last instance where an IndyCar driver was fined for placing his hands on an official happened at Edmonton in 2010 where Power's teammate Helio Castroneves grabbed and accosted IndyCar security director Charles Burns after receiving a race-altering penalty. The Brazilian was fined $60,000 and placed on probation for the remainder of the year for the transgression. Coincidentally, the two are now colleagues at Penske Racing.

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Dale Coyne Racing driver Tristan Vautier was fined $10,000 for hitting and flipping his left-front tire changer Oren Trower during a pit stop, and like Power, was placed on probation for the rest of 2015.

MAVTV 500 race winner Graham Rahal was fined $10,000 (with $5000 suspended) for driving away from his pit stall in the Mi-Jack-sponsored No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda with the fuel hose still attached to his car. That action led to the metal fuel probe being ripped away from the refueling hose and ethanol fuel being spilled onto his bodywork and the pavement below. The fuel probe subsequently fell away from the No. 15 Honda, which required track workers to retrieve the unit from the racing surface at the exit of Turn 2.

RLL refueler Phil Davis was also placed on probation for three races.

Team Penske's Juan Montoya was penalized $1500 for a second violation of running over an air hose with his No. 2 Chevy.

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports' No. 7 Honda entry, Andretti Autosport's No. 26 Honda, and CFH Racing's No. 67 Chevy have been fined $500 each for unattended wheel nuts during a pit stop. The No. 67 was fined an extra $500 for an unattended tire.

Only monetary deductions were levied by IndyCar, leaving the points tally unaffected for each driver and entrant after Fontana.