"Definitely caught me off guard," driver Pato O'Ward says of the use of an IndyCar image with a No. 5 in the announcement of an ICE detention facility in Indiana.

IndyCar officials have made efforts to distance themselves from a social media post by the Department of Homeland Security, which used IndyCar imagery to tout plans for the "Speedway Slammer," a planned immigration detention facility in Miami County,

IndyCar driver Pato O'Ward and series officials were shocked by a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security that touted plans for an immigration detention center in Indiana dubbed the "Speedway Slammer.