From Motorsport.com:
Brian Barnhart, strategist for Rossi, shared that they did opt to short-fill his driver on lap 201. Rossi was running eighth on the final lap before the incident left him 15th.
“We definitely had a fuel issue on the thing,” Barnhart said. “I tried to minimize time on pit road.
“Now, whether we didn’t get enough fuel in it or if the fuel there shifted, we obviously didn’t have enough to finish and we tried to back him down about the last four laps and ran completely out coming out of Turn 2.”
And Rossi was unaware of the fuel problem until there were a handful of laps remaining.
“I was not told at any point that we were in a fuel situation until like four to go, so it was a surprise to me,” Rossi said.
“We had to go into a pretty crazy save mode there at the end. I think we were going to get there, but unfortunately there was an incident when I was beginning to lose fuel out of Turn 2 and it ended our day.
“I am just hoping Sting Ray is okay at this point.”
Not good from McLaren and for a while Brian Barnhart hasn’t ‘cut the mustard’. Rossi drove yet another professional race and again it was ruined by Brian on the pit wall and McLaren screwing up. O Ward is driving the wheels of his car and is an extraordinary talent but McLaren has got to tighten up this organisation. An organisation of this magnitude should not be making the mistakes it does
That's incredible. Rossi could probably have easily made the fuel number over a stint. But not if his strategist keeps him in the dark and prays for a yellow until it's way too late. This would never happen at Ganassi.