IndyCar News: What does Herta’s F2 performance say about Super License points for IndyCar drivers?

The FIA finally gave IndyCar a bigger slice of the Super License pie. Then Colton Herta went to Formula 2 and spent a year getting lapped by the finishing school the system was built around. That collision of events is being read, in some corners, as proof the increase was a mistake. It isn’t that simple. It also isn’t nothing. –by Mark Cipolloni– Last December, the World Motor Sport Council raised IndyCar’s championship Super License scale from 40-30-20-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 to 40-30-25-20-15-10-8-6-3-1, effective from the 2026 season. Fourth place doubled. Fifth almost doubled. The FIA framed it as recognition of the series’…