Rick Mears has criticized Charlie Kimball for the incident that saw the Ganassi driver turn Will Power’s Penske car into the barriers at the top of the Esses at Watkins Glen during Sunday's penultimate IndyCar round of 2016. The four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time champion, who now works as a driver advisor at Team Penske and is spotter for Helio Castroneves, described Kimball forcing the issue in a closing gap as “stupid racecraft… or no racecraft.” Mears told Motorsport.com: “If my front wing is barely alongside the other guy’s rear tire and I see he’s coming across to take the normal racing line, and catch the slipstream of the car in front, then I think, ‘What’s...
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