Graham Rahal on what’s next with Romain Grosjean: ‘I’m not alone in my frustrations’

Having met with Romain Grosjean after their May 1 dustup at Barber Motorsports Park, and since talked to IndyCar officials, Graham Rahal has done all he do – for now.

So does that mean the Rahal Letterman Racing driver believes things are settled with Grosjean heading into May at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?

Maybe.

“I suppose we’ll find out next time we’re wheel to wheel, which it seems we are every weekend, he and I,” Rahal told NBC Sports during a sponsor event last week about where things stand with Grosjean. “So, we’ll see what comes of that.”

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What almost certainly won’t come of it is a situation similar to the closing laps Sunday at Darlington Raceway. While NASCAR affords, and even encourages, the frontier justice allowed by fenders, IndyCar’s open-wheel racing has no such provision for retaliation.

So does Rahal send a message without being able to send an opponent the same way that Joey Logano did to William Byron?

“The beauty of IndyCar racing is understanding how to race wheel to wheel,” Rahal said. “Race hard, race clean and properly execute a pass. I think that’s one of the greatest things about IndyCar racing is the mano a mano battle that takes place both mentally and physically in the race car to put yourself in the position to properly execute a pass and to properly go beat somebody cleanly.

“I was probably side by side with Scotty (McLaughlin) 10 laps in a row at Barber (and) never touched, never had a problem. One hundred percent clean racing. That’s the way it should be.

"It was a gentle touch." – @RGrosjean

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