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, Indiana 75 miles north of Indianapolis. The DHS used an AI-generated image of an IndyCar-style vehicle racing in front of a prison-like building, with the IndyCar featuring ICE sponsorship logos.

Following Tuesday's announcement by the Department of Homeland Security that it plans to expand detention space by about 1,000 beds at the Miami Correctional Facility in partnership with the state of Indiana, IndyCar expressed surprise that its imagery and likeness was used for the announcement and said it has expressed that it would prefer not to

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