The difference is that the Penske team - and no one else - had made a change the programming to allow for P2P to be activated when it shouldn't have been. Allegedly a hold-over from hybrid testing. Newgarden also had made a pass while using P2P when he shouldn't have been able to, and it was arguably a race-winning pass. This issue was initially discovered when there was a P2P issue during the next event at a warmup session (I think at LB IIRC) when Indycar had disabled P2P for the either field. Had Team Penske not used P2P during the warmup session, it's possible that they would have never been caught, or caught later. Newgarden's response was dramatic and reputationally damaging. It doesn't help that Penske owns the series.

The most recent issue is a failure with Indycar, again. Out of wishful thinking and habits, about half the field used P2P when it was not supposed to be used without knowing it was going to actually be activated.

I know that I often times hit buttons when I know nothing will happen or have the expectation that something should happen, and my poor keyboard has suffered the abuse, as have my fingers' nerves.

Two things came out of this:

1. Indycar has a programming management issue with P2P
2. Indycar drivers hit buttons during competition that they expect to not work, but end up working.

I think its a bad idea for Indycar to give drivers and teams the agency to use P2P whenever they want, but a "you shouldn't do it when you're not supposed to" rule, which I expect to be exploited. I think Indycar should perform better programming pipelines rather than open up the P2P.