INDYCAR: Tracy to Honda - Results are on you

On the flip side, Chevy has owned the 2016 season so far, and despite the Bowtie's comparative lack of pace during the aero kit test, most expect the defending Indy 500-winning brand to maintain its position of strength in May. A tug-of-war has taken place behind the scenes since that test involving which aerodynamic pieces the series would make both manufacturers use - or not use -and depending on the outcome, Chevy or Honda would be advantaged.

"It's all f***ing politics and bull***t is what it is," Tracy told RACER. "Honda – the season's only two races old and they're already crying and bitching, and it's getting old, really. If you can't get your s**t together, you can't penalize Chevy for building a better f***ing aero kit and engine. I think it's ridiculous for Honda to politick, penalizing [Chevy] for doing a better job. It's really on them to get it together. That is the bottom line.

"In the 1990s and the 2000s, back then there were new cars every year, multiple car manufacturers, multiple engine manufacturers, multiple tire manufacturers. And if you didn't get your s***t together, you had to figure it out. You didn't go to the series and cry."

Chevy's Indy 500 aero kit is particularly efficient without the use of underbody strakes, the blade-like pieces that attach to the diffuser. While Chevy had been pushing for IndyCar to adhere to its rulebook, which bans strakes for the big race, Honda's teams pushed back. Following the test, Honda's teams, citing the changes to the handling of their cars with the use of the new dome skids, asked for the series to mandate strakes for the 500.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn Tracy's views on helping Honda mirrored IndyCar's decision to leave strakes off the table for Indy.

"Obviously, you keep sticking your hand out and they keep helping you, you're going to keep sticking it out," he said. "It's a never-ending cycle. [If IndyCar] helps once, it's going to happen again."

Tracy hopes future situations, like the contentious Indy 500 aero kit rules, do not escalate to more forceful measures by the series' auto manufacturers.

"The thing that I fear is they're going to start [saying], 'Well, we just don't re-sign, or the deal will go away if you don't do [what we want].' That is the threat they'd do," Tracy continued. "And then the series will cave to them because the series is not strong enough without them. And [the manufacturers] know that."