Speaking after Sunday’s Nashville race, which he finished second after starting from pole position, McLaughlin branded the restarts in the series as a “joke”.
He felt the stop-start nature of the end to the race prevented him from attacking eventual winner Kyle Kirkwood, who won his second street race of the season for Andretti Autosport.
“I just think, from a sport perspective, the restarts are a joke,” said McLaughlin. “I think we need to restart on the start/finish line. So, you cannot pass until the start/finish line.
“You're always going to have these yellows. You're always going to have these clusters that cause red flags and make us look like...
“There's no cadence. Once there's a yellow flag on a street circuit, it's just a free-for-all. People bomb. We're well within our rights to do that.
“If we want to have a pure race, we could’ve have had a 10-lap shootout, me and Kyle, at the end. Instead, we're stop-start, stop-start. The action is fantastic. We just have no race.”
Source: Autosport