Newgarden gets Indy GP grid penalty.

This is known as the Bart Simpson penalty.

Motorsport Images: At the very back of the car a crew member holds up the official Sharpie pen and yells: "Who's next?"
While at the front, a crew member bends over to pick up the soap and a jar of IMSA vaseline.
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emailBy RACER Staff | August 12, 2023 9:14 AM ET

It’s been a challenging Gallagher Grand Prix weekend for Josef Newgarden thus far, and got even tougher Saturday morning with the announcement by IndyCar that the Team Penske driver’s No. 2 Chevrolet has been assessed a six-place grid penalty for an unapproved engine change following qualifying.

Newgarden, who had qualified a disappointing 19th on Friday, will now start 25th in the 27-car field for today’s race after his and the three previously announced grid penalties for similarly unapproved engine changes are applied.

Officially, the team was in violation of Rule 16.2.3.2 This is known as the Bart Simpson penalty.
which states that a fifth engine is eligible to earn engine manufacturer points if a full season entrant has completed the full season entrant engine mileage with its first four engines. Otherwise, a fifth or more engine does not earn engine manufacturer points and will be considered an unapproved engine change-out.
The newest IMSA penalty is to write 100 times on the car with a sharpie pen: "I will not get caught changing out a leaky POS engine with all the rings busted and holes in all the pistons."