Andretti won’t field a fourth Indy 500 car since Herta has to race in Canada

Due to the two Middle East F1 weekends canceled for stupid war, F2 teams were no longer getting their money’s worth, so the championship rightly found a way to get on the bill for the Miami and Canadian grands prix. The bummer is that Canada is famously on the same day as the Indy 500, which means that Colton Herta will have to miss the greatest race in the world to race teenagers in Formula 2. He says it “hurts,” but — justifiably — he has to stay committed to his new FIA-sanctioned direction.

Andretti Global never actually committed to running its fourth car this year, as Marco has hung up his helmet, but it was widely understood that they were keeping it warm for Colton should he be available, which he was supposed to be. Now that he isn’t, Andretti has decided to concentrate on its full-season entries.