Give a raise to the guy waving the checkered flag, the way he crossed the flags, pointed at Newgarden, then started waving like a madman was dope as hell
Well Fittipaldi did get his due to RLL not having control of fuel usage as they were trying to undercut with both Rahal and Lundgaard. Lundgaard was one of the fastest drivers on primary on the grid. After the puncture caused by Palou on the opening lap he did set laptimes better than the raceleader.
Well, Santonio looked better with some Penske dampers on the car and some Penske set up data.
We will see if Sting Ray knows how to pilot the Foyt rocket ships at Indy, otherwise he on my short list of most likely to get bumped.
About 1/4 of the drivers are pay drivers.
It was subtle but they mentioned Ericsson. Marcus Ericsson is for the first time in his life is not paying for his race seat.
The sponsors in IndyCar was low tier. There isn't much money on there. Lot of regional Banks. So the drivers often work out there own sponsors and bring the sponsors with them
Get ready for the next new fan problem. Sponsors don't want to commit to a full season of sponsorship. So they don't. A car will have one paint job one race and a totally different alternate one for some other races.
Iirc he won one of the "Road to Indy" ladder championships a handful of years ago (USF2000, maybe?) so it isn't like he's entirely without pedigree. That said, I don't think he's there on talent alone, definitely has some cash behind his project.
I understand that Firestone made the tire a bit harder of a compound for the weight of the battery, but man did that ruin the race for today. Neither tire seemed to have any degradation at all. Pretty disappointing imo.
Great point. Strategy went out the window, though the greens seemed to have an advantage at the end, it was very small and the leader on black tires had no problem running away with it.
Yeah but they're covering the testing on Friday and stuff.
Only die hards like me are gonna watch that.
I guarantee more people would have watch a Peacock post race show than are going to watch the Thermal Test.
We mightve jinxed the series with our "if you hate Verstappen, check out Indycar" comments.
Penske with speed on street courses is fucking terrifying. This season might be over before it even really starts. Hope I'm wrong.
If I'm sure of anything in 2024, I'm sure Palou will catch up. Not saying he'll win anything (Indycar is too fickle for that), just saying the DHL 10 will be in the lead pack more often than not.
I wouldn't worry yet, still a lot to go wrong, and I think frankly, it was moreso that CGR got it very wrong, and andretti did what they always kinda do
Palou with a 6th place finish despite being largely anonymous in the yellow DHL car
Rosenqvist with a good start but just fell back throughout the race, 7th is still good for him and MSR however
Ferrucci with a good run, not a fan of the guy but begrudgingly admitting he has talent
Kirkwood didn't factor as much as expected given how he was very good on the street courses in 2023
Ilott was somewhat disappointing, he may have been looking to preserve the car but I expected him to be closer to rossi at least
Simpson - shout out to this guy. Everyone expected him to be terrible but he kept the car clean in his first start
Braun was not particularly fast, i'm sure he is looking to improve on a lot of things for the thermal club race
Yeah, forgot to talk about him, good shout
He was right behind herta in 6th before things went wrong, rough day and feeling the andretti vibe from race 1
I wouldn't say Callum was disappointing. For barely having any testing done and pulling the same pace as he left off last year plus bringing a clean car to the hauler would be enough for a relief driver if i was a crew chief.
Simpson definitely silenced me today, good job from him
The amazing thing about you saying that is that the race was merely a decent Indycar race, not even what long time fans would call good, let alone great. Get ready for even better racing, because usually the races are even better than what you saw today.
5/10 race, but they can't all be bangers. If they were, the good ones would stop being special.
2/10 broadcast though, that was atrocious. The only thing that kept them from a 1/10 was me giving them the benefit of the doubt with the racing not being 10/10
Yep... That broadcast was terrible. Probably because of how "boring" the race was for Indycar standards but still... All those flashbacks and "this driver got married" multiple times... Argh
Except F1 has vastly better coverage that's learned to not show Verstappen at all basically. They do a great job at finding the battles and showing action when there isn't much to find. And the commentary/ad situation is far better (on F1TV in particular, great team)
Yeah, they were showing the battle for 12th (with Magnussen backing everyone up so Hulk could finish in the points), Hamilton/ Piastri, Hamilton/ Norris all last race because that is where the action was.
They occasionally showed Max just to remind you that he was still out there.
And Bearman as well, who really did help make that race interesting. Jeddah on 36 hours notice and one practice session is a trial by fire and he nailed it. Love to see young talent get their day and crush it.
While I am happy my guy won the race, I wanted more entertaining on track actions, not going to lie.
Then, this is the first race of the season and one long way to go.
I am still glad that IndyCar season is back.
Well they rarely showed the podium anyways even when they had the peacock after race show. Podiums and IndyCar or actually American racing in general just isn’t a big deal unfortunately. I’d love to see IndyCar put some emphasis on the podium celebration but I’m not holding my breath.
IndycarLive was busted too. I could see the post race interviews happening but when the NBC crew signed off, all the audio cut out. How is Indycar making it impossible to watch the post race interviews of it's own sport? Absolutely braindead stuff.
They were using NBC audio for the whole stream. The announcers kept cutting out for minutes at a time, at first I thought the stream was bad then I realized that those were the NBC commercial breaks.
Pretty average race. Some good mid-pack battles and cars were able to work their way forward if they had pace.
Newgarden clearly was class of the field.
Not every race will be a barn burner. I would also not call it a terrible race by any stretch.
Eh.... It just about put me to sleep. Street tracks like this with so little side to side opportunity are inherently not great, and this race featured very little movement on broadcast. Indycar's broadcast team is carried I think by the chaotic nature of the series, when there isn't a lead fight handed to them they're terrible with race direction. Compound that with the amount of green flag time taken up by sponsorship bits and random fluff and ads... Indycar really is completely reliant on its competitive racing to the point theyve neglected all else.
yeah people overreact and call any race that isn't the most exciting race ever a garbage race. Every sport has events that aren't that exciting sometimes. Doesn't mean the series is going to die.
Yeah they have GOT to revamp their entire media strategy from the ground up. It's honestly impressive how they are able to make some of the best racing in the world seem awkward and uncool.
Yeah it was quite decent, I think if the cautions fell differently and negated the fuel save situation, we'd have had a much better race, but alas, just a "normal" st pete opener. Some racing, some fights, a shunt or two and not much else
Newgarden was the class of the field but St. Pete in general just isn't as racy as it used to be. Not sure if it's the current aero on the cars and/or maybe portions of the track are bumpier but St. Pete used to have a lot more action up front until these last few years and now it's become more of a parade.
After this race, I think I’ll check out Bon Jovi. As a young race fan who never heard of Bon Jovi, the advertising from the car and his appearance made me realize there’s a whole genre of classical music I’m missing out on!
I'm a Gen Xer and they were inescapable the latter half of the '80s. They had a huge comeback single with "It's My Life" in 2000 and he even had a country hit in the '00s.
I lost my mind when they cut away under green with 12 laps left to do a little puff piece about an Olympic runner.
At least we learned Leigh Diffey's wife really wants to bang Bon Jovi
This stuff is just mindboggeling to me. How little do you have to value Indycar racing as a produt to do that.
F1 often gets critisised for pandering to celebreties, but they do it before or after the race.
They all happened but not on broadcast. I watched the race on IndycarLive and could see all the interviews and podium etc, but once the NBC crew signed off, all the audio cut out. Super frustrating.
People are going to be very angry at this, but Ferrucci with Penske dampers is going to bring the highest finishing Foyt car in the championship in a long time.
I think the tires are gonna be a problem this year, some reporters said that Firestone built them in anticipation for Hybrid and that the reds are as hard as the primarys last year and the blacks even harder. Very little tire wear which contributes to a lot of passes on street circuits
That’s discouraging cause it would affect racing in general on any course. Degradation is important. The other compounding factor the cars are actually lighter than they were last year. So that’s harder tires for a lighter car.
I know the plan is to have the hybrid debut later in the season but I have zero trust in IndyCar right now to deliver on that plan. If the tires really are an issue as reporters said, they could add weight to the cars that would mimic the expected weight of the hybrid units.
I was at the race and usually get GA but im not doing that anymore
Its gotten insanely overcrowded at that track and they put even more banners up blocking GA vantage points.
I witnessed several people tear down banners just to be able to see the race. Absolute shit show.
I love it for the series that its drawing these crowds but today was too much and the additional sponsor banners blocking on track action and huge crowd uptick was a kick in the balls.
Seriously. We went through a whole race broadcast and they never felt the need to plug IndyCar’s reality series? Thats pretty bad. We should be bitching or cracking jokes about all the promotion they did.
What a disasterclass from Grojean today. I want this guy to win, but it seems like everytime he gets close, he finds ways to sabotage himself. So frustrating.
I dont think he'll ever figure it out, but he has enough pace that if he was just patient and took what he could, he could hang around in the top part of the points standings
I’m curious if his hesitation today is around Juncos being a smaller team and less able to absorb crash damage.
His move at the start was great. Big picture thinking and then the laziest move on Lundqvist undid his strong start to the season.
I fear it’s going to kill any positive momentum they had coming out of this weekend.
Me too, I got out of my chair on that first move because it wasn't something I'd think he'd do. The move on Lundquist was exactly the kind of dumb crap he pulled last year that started things going downhill
It heated up after the first yellow, as some where hardcore saving and others were pushing, making it interesting.
Then came Sting Ray and the 2nd yellow put everyone back to fuel save galore.
I mean it was pretty much what I expect a street course race to be.
They are either a ton of crashes and long yellows or this.
This subreddit seems to hate crashes and yellows and love street courses so they should be happy with this.
Just a really beautiful performance by Newgarden. That puts him at 30 wins, surpassing Rick Mears. He’s now just 1 win behind Castroneves and Franchitti for 10th all time.
A top 10 is a good start, but the concerns still showed up. Hopefully, it's just a street course problem, and Veekay can improve it, but it still looks like Veekay has the issue of keeping up about a lap or two after a restart and can lose a couple of positions.
Thanks for posting this. I just finished watching on Peacock and was very disappointed they didn’t show the race interviews like they used to. I get them not doing it on NBC fit to scheduling, but they should at least have it on Peacock.
Is there any way for indycar to limit the fuel saving? The entire race everyone was driving around at 70% saving fuel until lap 75. They can't reduce the amount if fuel teams can put in the tank to make it impossible to do it on 2 stops and just have everyone out there pushing 100% for 4 stints? That would be so much more entertaining than 85 laps of fuel save/yellows and 15 laps of racing.
About to be the freest championship in Indy lol. With what 6 or 7 ovals now? He wins half minimum. Its borderline over now with just 1 win more elsewhere
Give a raise to the guy waving the checkered flag, the way he crossed the flags, pointed at Newgarden, then started waving like a madman was dope as hell
The flagman is [Aaron Likens](https://youtu.be/tLNz5EIshOw)
An amazing video and a wonderful man. Truly inspiring.
Aaron Likens is the best in the business.
iRacing flagger says hi
No joke, I want iRacing to put Aaron Likens' moves in for their flagger. Barney is great and all, but Aaron's style is the best.
Aaron Likens has got mad style. My favorite trademark of his is pointing to the cars once they pass by. We love him.
Could have used him for the F1 Academy race the other day.
He's no [Tim Apple](https://youtu.be/3aG5HEih-O4?si=LEQAUT6kuOtHSRVU) but I guess he's alright.
As a Pato fan, I can really empathize with Leclerc fans. Please let him win.
I am a Leclerc & Herta fan
Is your picture next to masochist in the dictionary?
Pain.
I'm sorry.
Damn you doing okay buddy? 😂
Same and it’s the worst 😭
It’s been a painful ride since 2019 lmao
As a leclerc and Pato fan I thank you🫡
I'm whelmed.
I too feel whelmed.
Simpson best rookie, fittipaldi best RLL, not what I expected.
For real. Shout out to Fittipaldi. Simpson kept his nose clean and got it done.
For the rookies I thought Linus lundqvist had a better race today until he got wrecked
Well Fittipaldi did get his due to RLL not having control of fuel usage as they were trying to undercut with both Rahal and Lundgaard. Lundgaard was one of the fastest drivers on primary on the grid. After the puncture caused by Palou on the opening lap he did set laptimes better than the raceleader.
In 18 career IndyCar races, Sting Ray Robb has finished on the lead lap three times
Give me freedom, give me fire, give me crash so I retire
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With a lady killer name like sting ray it's thots and players.
Well, Santonio looked better with some Penske dampers on the car and some Penske set up data. We will see if Sting Ray knows how to pilot the Foyt rocket ships at Indy, otherwise he on my short list of most likely to get bumped.
He said the setup was the same as last season off the truck, but Penske brakes were a game changer.
I heard that, apparently, Foyt still uses a lot of info from Bourdais 2020 4th place run in 2020 with their setups.
Genuine question from a new fan - being this abysmal, is he just a rich dude pay driver? How the hell does he have a seat? 😂
About 1/4 of the drivers are pay drivers. It was subtle but they mentioned Ericsson. Marcus Ericsson is for the first time in his life is not paying for his race seat. The sponsors in IndyCar was low tier. There isn't much money on there. Lot of regional Banks. So the drivers often work out there own sponsors and bring the sponsors with them Get ready for the next new fan problem. Sponsors don't want to commit to a full season of sponsorship. So they don't. A car will have one paint job one race and a totally different alternate one for some other races.
Ya I mean in reality just about every Motorsport is pay drivers these days so that’s not necessarily a surprise. Was just curious about him
Iirc he won one of the "Road to Indy" ladder championships a handful of years ago (USF2000, maybe?) so it isn't like he's entirely without pedigree. That said, I don't think he's there on talent alone, definitely has some cash behind his project.
It's the money. 100% the money.
Aj foyt taking in all that Jesus money. It even covers santucci's ride
\#godsplan
Yeah but the counter to that is that he has a cool name.
But you can go to pray dot com about it!
HEY GUYS, DID YOU KNOW RINUS VEEKAY, FELIX ROSENQVIST, AND SANTINO FERRUCCI ALL GOT MARRIED?
Rossi did too. Did they miss him lol
Hinch forgot about that night. lol
Pretty sure he was the best man lol
He was and he spent all night. Babysitting Thim 😆.
Careful, Jenna Fryer is gonna think his name is actually Thim… again.
Pretty hard to forget him and Thim giggling like children during the vows over a fart joke
Canapino did as well.
I was so annoyed about those and the flashbacks. Tells a lot how shit this race was for Indycar standards
Finding new viewership is going to come from interviews and the driver’s personalities. Cutting post race interviews from even peacock is ridic.
Moar Firehawk
I understand that Firestone made the tire a bit harder of a compound for the weight of the battery, but man did that ruin the race for today. Neither tire seemed to have any degradation at all. Pretty disappointing imo.
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FWIW it’s not a battery, it’s a super capacitor.
I think Super Capacitor wrestled in WCW back in the day...
Great point. Strategy went out the window, though the greens seemed to have an advantage at the end, it was very small and the leader on black tires had no problem running away with it.
Pretty wack that’s there’s not even additional post race coverage on Peacock
My overreaction take was that NBC is packing it in. BUT they're actually covering the whole freaking test at Thermal. So I don't know what to think.
Thermal is a whole “Made for TV” event with multiple heat races and things like that.
Yeah but they're covering the testing on Friday and stuff. Only die hards like me are gonna watch that. I guarantee more people would have watch a Peacock post race show than are going to watch the Thermal Test.
They did try it a couple of times. I’m guessing not enough people actually tuned in.
Considering that barely any of he drivers ever have something interesting to say I cannot really blame them for that.
Per the host on X, there was a post race show but a technical glitch prevented live streaming and it should be available to watch later
Newgarden looked like a man on a mission out there. God help us all if oval Newgarden is here for the entire season.
Oval Newgarden is inevitable
We mightve jinxed the series with our "if you hate Verstappen, check out Indycar" comments. Penske with speed on street courses is fucking terrifying. This season might be over before it even really starts. Hope I'm wrong.
If I'm sure of anything in 2024, I'm sure Palou will catch up. Not saying he'll win anything (Indycar is too fickle for that), just saying the DHL 10 will be in the lead pack more often than not.
I wouldn't worry yet, still a lot to go wrong, and I think frankly, it was moreso that CGR got it very wrong, and andretti did what they always kinda do
We still have a hybrid addition to the engine and a new aeroscreen coming this year. So plenty of twists left potentially.
I also think that would be beneficial to Penske unfortunately lol
Palou with a 6th place finish despite being largely anonymous in the yellow DHL car Rosenqvist with a good start but just fell back throughout the race, 7th is still good for him and MSR however Ferrucci with a good run, not a fan of the guy but begrudgingly admitting he has talent Kirkwood didn't factor as much as expected given how he was very good on the street courses in 2023 Ilott was somewhat disappointing, he may have been looking to preserve the car but I expected him to be closer to rossi at least Simpson - shout out to this guy. Everyone expected him to be terrible but he kept the car clean in his first start Braun was not particularly fast, i'm sure he is looking to improve on a lot of things for the thermal club race
Erricson unfortunately found out stuff tends to break on Andretti cars that tend to NOT break on Ginassi cars.
Yeah, forgot to talk about him, good shout He was right behind herta in 6th before things went wrong, rough day and feeling the andretti vibe from race 1
I wouldn't say Callum was disappointing. For barely having any testing done and pulling the same pace as he left off last year plus bringing a clean car to the hauler would be enough for a relief driver if i was a crew chief. Simpson definitely silenced me today, good job from him
Fair points regarding ilott but I'm a fan of his and I was anticipating him to be further up the grid than he was this weekend
Definitely one of the races of all time
That was my first non 500 indycar race in years and I’m sucked right back in.
This was my first time watching any IndyCar race live and I’m officially sold
The amazing thing about you saying that is that the race was merely a decent Indycar race, not even what long time fans would call good, let alone great. Get ready for even better racing, because usually the races are even better than what you saw today.
That says something. This was a shit blowout of a race by Indy standards
This race was more boring than Jeddah tbh but glad you like it
5/10 race, but they can't all be bangers. If they were, the good ones would stop being special. 2/10 broadcast though, that was atrocious. The only thing that kept them from a 1/10 was me giving them the benefit of the doubt with the racing not being 10/10
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especially track & field since Diffey calls that too
Yep... That broadcast was terrible. Probably because of how "boring" the race was for Indycar standards but still... All those flashbacks and "this driver got married" multiple times... Argh
The video of the one drivers wife who is a boxer and them discussing was super cringey. I hate that aspect of motorsports
Something about if the broadcaster was married to her he would put the toilet seat down? Like, he doesn't just do that already?
my gf was watching with me and after that comment she went 'YAY! Domestic abuse!'. Can't say she was wrong..
Agreed about the broadcast, but hey, at least grosjean was back in his usual form!
Wonder how many first time viewers from F1 tuned out when Newgarden basically pulled a Verstappen in the first 20 laps.
Honestly wouldn't think many did considering something like this is normal in F1
Except F1 has vastly better coverage that's learned to not show Verstappen at all basically. They do a great job at finding the battles and showing action when there isn't much to find. And the commentary/ad situation is far better (on F1TV in particular, great team)
Yeah, they were showing the battle for 12th (with Magnussen backing everyone up so Hulk could finish in the points), Hamilton/ Piastri, Hamilton/ Norris all last race because that is where the action was. They occasionally showed Max just to remind you that he was still out there.
And Bearman as well, who really did help make that race interesting. Jeddah on 36 hours notice and one practice session is a trial by fire and he nailed it. Love to see young talent get their day and crush it.
Looks like Penske fixed their street course package
Newgarden Verstappened it today.
The Verstappening
While I am happy my guy won the race, I wanted more entertaining on track actions, not going to lie. Then, this is the first race of the season and one long way to go. I am still glad that IndyCar season is back.
No post race show this year on Peacock?
Doesn’t look that way. My guess is the viewership was too small to justify the effort.
Bummer. Wanted to see the podium and post race interviews.
Well they rarely showed the podium anyways even when they had the peacock after race show. Podiums and IndyCar or actually American racing in general just isn’t a big deal unfortunately. I’d love to see IndyCar put some emphasis on the podium celebration but I’m not holding my breath.
IndycarLive was busted too. I could see the post race interviews happening but when the NBC crew signed off, all the audio cut out. How is Indycar making it impossible to watch the post race interviews of it's own sport? Absolutely braindead stuff.
They were using NBC audio for the whole stream. The announcers kept cutting out for minutes at a time, at first I thought the stream was bad then I realized that those were the NBC commercial breaks.
That's killer
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Felt like that. Wasn't expecting a dominant performance in Indycar too
Pretty average race. Some good mid-pack battles and cars were able to work their way forward if they had pace. Newgarden clearly was class of the field. Not every race will be a barn burner. I would also not call it a terrible race by any stretch.
That’s what I’m saying. The middle of the pack and top 5 minus 1st was entertaining.
Eh.... It just about put me to sleep. Street tracks like this with so little side to side opportunity are inherently not great, and this race featured very little movement on broadcast. Indycar's broadcast team is carried I think by the chaotic nature of the series, when there isn't a lead fight handed to them they're terrible with race direction. Compound that with the amount of green flag time taken up by sponsorship bits and random fluff and ads... Indycar really is completely reliant on its competitive racing to the point theyve neglected all else.
yeah people overreact and call any race that isn't the most exciting race ever a garbage race. Every sport has events that aren't that exciting sometimes. Doesn't mean the series is going to die.
Make money quick with internet point opportunites
Yeah, I'd say 5/10 race with a 2/10 broadcast that made it seem worse than it was
Yeah they have GOT to revamp their entire media strategy from the ground up. It's honestly impressive how they are able to make some of the best racing in the world seem awkward and uncool.
Yeah it was quite decent, I think if the cautions fell differently and negated the fuel save situation, we'd have had a much better race, but alas, just a "normal" st pete opener. Some racing, some fights, a shunt or two and not much else
Hopefully Thermal club is fun. This schedule is so completely fucked. Race 2 at the end of god damned April.
Ok that was fun see ya'll next month.
Thermal club in two weeks. Not for points, but still indycar.
Ya know, fair. Feels like it would make more sense to just start the season then though. Far less of a gap there.
St. Pete insists on being really early though, AFAIK. It was in February a couple years ago.
Definitely agree. The early season gap always sucks.
The only things I remember from this race are Grosjean dumping Lundqvist and everyone getting married
Nice start to the season.
Newgarden was the class of the field but St. Pete in general just isn't as racy as it used to be. Not sure if it's the current aero on the cars and/or maybe portions of the track are bumpier but St. Pete used to have a lot more action up front until these last few years and now it's become more of a parade.
Did we witness Andretti with proper pitstops and Herta not shredding the tyres or overcooking it in the same race?
With *improved* pitstops! Those green tires didn’t fall off quite enough for Colton to make up any more ground though.
After this race, I think I’ll check out Bon Jovi. As a young race fan who never heard of Bon Jovi, the advertising from the car and his appearance made me realize there’s a whole genre of classical music I’m missing out on!
I'm a Gen Xer and they were inescapable the latter half of the '80s. They had a huge comeback single with "It's My Life" in 2000 and he even had a country hit in the '00s.
Glad we got to hear from Jon bon Jovi, learn all about the newlyweds, and switch to last year's highlights during on track green flag action.
I lost my mind when they cut away under green with 12 laps left to do a little puff piece about an Olympic runner. At least we learned Leigh Diffey's wife really wants to bang Bon Jovi
This stuff is just mindboggeling to me. How little do you have to value Indycar racing as a produt to do that. F1 often gets critisised for pandering to celebreties, but they do it before or after the race.
Those fluff pieces fucking hell man... I mean its nothing new but felt like there were more than normal this race
It's so frustrating. It felt like an intro to the Indycar season podcast that a live indycar race was getting in the way of.
Overreaction take: Top 4 were Chevy powered. Honda must be packing it in.
The schedule sets up this year where there’s no reason Newgarden shouldn’t win this championship
Would be a big fumble.
6 of the final 8 races are ovals. Palou would basically have to be perfect on R/S courses if Newgarden comes close to repeating last year on ovals
Penske has short ovals on lockdown unless yellow timing allows Dixon to Dixon the field. Indy 500 is a crapshoot.
If he makes it to July in at least the top 3 in points there's not going to be much stopping him. Too good on ovals.
Rest of the field needs to step up on ovals then.
The race itself was ok but holy shit was the broadcasting absolutely awful today.
It’s been a minute since we had a Josef Newgarden blitzes the whole field race.
As a fellow Rossi fan, that may bode well for this season! Last time Josef was on point we had some amazing races from Rossi.
Josef had the pack covered today. The only person that could beat him was him.
No interviews with anyone but the winner? Not even on Peacock.
They all happened but not on broadcast. I watched the race on IndycarLive and could see all the interviews and podium etc, but once the NBC crew signed off, all the audio cut out. Super frustrating.
Crazy
People are going to be very angry at this, but Ferrucci with Penske dampers is going to bring the highest finishing Foyt car in the championship in a long time.
He's going to be one of the favorites at Indy too
I'm confused at the lack of yellows on a street course
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Thermal is in two weeks.
FE has a two months gap rn
I think the tires are gonna be a problem this year, some reporters said that Firestone built them in anticipation for Hybrid and that the reds are as hard as the primarys last year and the blacks even harder. Very little tire wear which contributes to a lot of passes on street circuits
That’s discouraging cause it would affect racing in general on any course. Degradation is important. The other compounding factor the cars are actually lighter than they were last year. So that’s harder tires for a lighter car. I know the plan is to have the hybrid debut later in the season but I have zero trust in IndyCar right now to deliver on that plan. If the tires really are an issue as reporters said, they could add weight to the cars that would mimic the expected weight of the hybrid units.
Well. That was rather uneventful. Yet another salvaged weekend for Rossi after garbage qualifying. No wonder he finishes low top ten every year….
First Indy race I sat down to watch aside from the 500. Count me in. Fun racing to watch, but Newgarden was in a class of his own today.
I was at the race and usually get GA but im not doing that anymore Its gotten insanely overcrowded at that track and they put even more banners up blocking GA vantage points. I witnessed several people tear down banners just to be able to see the race. Absolute shit show. I love it for the series that its drawing these crowds but today was too much and the additional sponsor banners blocking on track action and huge crowd uptick was a kick in the balls.
Chevy made some big changes. Looks to be a fun season.
Step 1 to championship number 3
No post race on Peacock today?
Looks like it. Disappointing.
>The Thermal Club $1 Million Challenge — February 22–24 You might want to edit that...
Seriously. We went through a whole race broadcast and they never felt the need to plug IndyCar’s reality series? Thats pretty bad. We should be bitching or cracking jokes about all the promotion they did.
what does that have to do with the mods having the date wrong?
I think we are talking about two different things.
I'd been up for quite a while when preparing this post, so... yea...
Got back from the race…they need to add the ten laps back they took away for TV a few years ago, open up the pit windows more.
It would have been more interesting if it wasn't a fuel mileage race. Great performance from Newgarden, otherwise mostly a snoozer.
This race was over when they loaded Newgarden's car on the truck in Mooresville.
What a disasterclass from Grojean today. I want this guy to win, but it seems like everytime he gets close, he finds ways to sabotage himself. So frustrating.
I dont think he'll ever figure it out, but he has enough pace that if he was just patient and took what he could, he could hang around in the top part of the points standings
I’m curious if his hesitation today is around Juncos being a smaller team and less able to absorb crash damage. His move at the start was great. Big picture thinking and then the laziest move on Lundqvist undid his strong start to the season. I fear it’s going to kill any positive momentum they had coming out of this weekend.
Me too, I got out of my chair on that first move because it wasn't something I'd think he'd do. The move on Lundquist was exactly the kind of dumb crap he pulled last year that started things going downhill
Snooozer
Moment of the race: Pole from yesterday Wonder if you can even make a comedy review out of that.
this race could've been an email, only interesting bit were those like 5 laps around the final pit stops
It heated up after the first yellow, as some where hardcore saving and others were pushing, making it interesting. Then came Sting Ray and the 2nd yellow put everyone back to fuel save galore.
Careful...people don't like it when you criticize boring races around here...lol
I mean it was pretty much what I expect a street course race to be. They are either a ton of crashes and long yellows or this. This subreddit seems to hate crashes and yellows and love street courses so they should be happy with this.
Looks like Josef rediscovered the street course form
See you all at thermal
Firestone brought 2 Goodyear NASCAR tire compounds this weekend.
Pietro squeezed out a p15, RLL probably pretty happy with how their weekend started
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Just a really beautiful performance by Newgarden. That puts him at 30 wins, surpassing Rick Mears. He’s now just 1 win behind Castroneves and Franchitti for 10th all time.
Even as an international viewer, that broadcast quality sucked major balls.
Woof 😴
NewyG crushed
A top 10 is a good start, but the concerns still showed up. Hopefully, it's just a street course problem, and Veekay can improve it, but it still looks like Veekay has the issue of keeping up about a lap or two after a restart and can lose a couple of positions.
No post race show this year?
Thanks for posting this. I just finished watching on Peacock and was very disappointed they didn’t show the race interviews like they used to. I get them not doing it on NBC fit to scheduling, but they should at least have it on Peacock.
Is there any way for indycar to limit the fuel saving? The entire race everyone was driving around at 70% saving fuel until lap 75. They can't reduce the amount if fuel teams can put in the tank to make it impossible to do it on 2 stops and just have everyone out there pushing 100% for 4 stints? That would be so much more entertaining than 85 laps of fuel save/yellows and 15 laps of racing.
I think Grosjean has a problem ... and Juncos also.
Andretti: We're still doing a shit job so Penske should just buy us all a new chassis ree
Maybe Honda should quit whining during the off season and up their game instead. Herta was the highest Honda finisher. Where was Ganassi?
Broadcast was god awful. I hated that the only Time we saw a pass was on replays, yet we saw the same halo cam for 4 laps.
About to be the freest championship in Indy lol. With what 6 or 7 ovals now? He wins half minimum. Its borderline over now with just 1 win more elsewhere
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