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The IndyCar Report with Elijah Poe (2.109.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the Indie Car Report with Elijah Poe.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Only on the Central Indian Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Indie Car fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for an off-season addition of the Indie Car Report with Elijah Poe.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah did not allow to move over the last couple of weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the one thing that stands out here with just a couple weeks left of 2025 is that
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not the most popular driver in the entire series, but definitely the most popular driver within Central Indiana.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Connor Daley is without a seat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's really unfortunate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got St. Ray Robb who has been picked up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was obviously under contracts for whom goes hoggurasing for 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But they went ahead and made that official here just last week, or really this week, and...
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Made that official it is going to be in the car for 2026, which does leave Connor Daily out of a seat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, there is still one seat open at Delcoing Racing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacob Abel is undecided for that, I'm not sure if they're going to reassign him, but I think that's just as good as shy as any for Connor Daily to pick up that seat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If that's a possibility, I don't see why not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Typically, a development seat though.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is, but being a team that needs some backing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You look at Jacob Abel and Connor Daly, and those are two drivers who can definitely bring a little bit of backing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Connor Daly, it can also bring you some wins on ovals.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You guys haven't done it yet, but everybody knows that he's capable of doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd be interested to see what that possibility would even look like in the Delcoing car room.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have not been the strongest, especially around India.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's no hidden secret, but that being said, Connor Daly is Connor Daly on the ovals he definitely thrives.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: probably not a winning formula to be honest.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And if I were Connor Daley and I'm not, what I would be doing right now is looking for the best possible in the only seat and a drive somewhere else until you can figure out a situation to get back in full time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That would be my direction.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's hard to disagree with that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't be surprised to see him back in that drier and drier in both car for Indy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: maybe and dready with Marco, especially what I hope officially retiring.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That would be a really cool opportunity for Connor to be in an injury card during the month of May.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It would be just awesome.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If that does fall through, I'm pretty confident he'd end up at dry and rye and bold and they've they've shown some pretty good showing these last couple years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's unfortunate Connor daily in this situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we all know how talented he is on the ovals, but I'm not really
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been kind of a long process throughout his really whole any car cararies switched back and forth, but just unable to keep that steady seat.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I really thought dry and Ryan Bull was going to win the 500 in 2001.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they almost had a shot here last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They almost had a shot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They really did.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They led 50 laps, I believe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Hunter A would have come out ahead of those two RLL cars after his last pit sequence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So he would have been ahead of Polo and Erickson, but had a fuel pressure issue, which was a pretty common occurrence in 2025 throughout all the races, really.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Robbie Buel was trying to pass Aleo Castro Nevis for the lead with maybe 50 laps to go and didn't make it stick and crashed and that was dry and Ryan Bull's best shot ever at one
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the fastest car out there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was really too bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've talked to him about it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, great guy great on the radio as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brutal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is just brutal, especially for a one-off team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just even have a shot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were not a one-off team then.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That shows you how young I am.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It does.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They were a full-time in-be racing league team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, in the IRL days.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And they were actually a pretty good team one quite a few races.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I would love to see them be able to get back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, they've shown to bring a good car and ending qualifying, usually with ease, obviously.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, whenever you never know where Connor's going to end up, and I think that's why his fans love him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, never really know what he's going to do with the end of the day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Didn't rock, bull definitely knows what he's doing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It just would be such a shame if Connor Daily doesn't have a full-time ride, especially if he has to settle for a secondary indie only ride.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If he goes with A and Dreddy, I think that's almost as good a result as a full-time ride, for indie because that would put him right in the mix.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He really just needs a shot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been unfortunate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His career has been kind of riddled with these one to two year contracts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, I think his most stable gig was with ECR a couple of years ago, but he's really been bouncing back and forth, really his whole career.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, I do agree.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If he's able to lock down that fourth and dreaded car, that would be pretty pretty special.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I wouldn't be surprised if Colton hurt us in that fourth one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of which, there is some FIA news, Elijah, and it's some pretty interesting news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely interesting because we've had this whole discussion about Colton, heard I going to Formula 2 because you didn't have enough super license points to go to Formula 1, but of course, just as Colton makes them the move, the FIA just came out today, and they're going to revise the points allocation for the Indie car super license.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: can dive through it before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The new regulations first place received 40 second 25 third 20 eighth six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 9th, 3rd, and 10th, 1 point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so obviously Cole and her didn't have enough points to make the jump to Formula One.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He would have, I believe, been their reserve driver and kind of waited under a year under Valtteri Botest and Sergio Perez.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But now he's got to work kind of work his way up through Formula Two to earn those super license points.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So pretty much every category from first, first, is still staying at 40 points.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of 20 points, second place is now 25 points, second place is now going to receive 30, third place is going to receive 25 instead of 20, fourth is going to receive 20 instead of 15, fifth is going to receive 15 instead of 10, and sixth is going to receive 10 instead of 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then all the other point values from 7th to 10th are going to remain the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that's obviously a huge swing for those 3rd through 6th positions and cool and heard of what had been in Formula 1 by now, which is it's just a shame that FIA has put this off for so long because it's been known that cool and heard has wanted to race in Formula 1 for years now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How about this, you elitist Formula 1 snobbs?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If someone is a serious talent in Indy Car, they're good enough to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: compete in your stupid series, exactly, stupid.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It really is dumb.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can't tell me, you saw a Roman grows on who, it was decently successful in Formula One.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like he was top driver or anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a little bit middle of the pack, maybe bottom of the middle of the pack, come over and hear and fall in his face.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like Andy Car drivers aren't successful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you ask where the lead drivers in the world in auto racing, the answer is formula 1.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the margin isn't that large, come on.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There are just as many talented drivers over here as there are over there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And now the world's best drivers are coming to IndyCar.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: as often as they're going to Formula 1.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the talent level isn't that different.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If Colton Hurdick can compete with Alex below and Paolo Ward and Will Power and Scott Dixon, he can compete with anybody in Formula 1, give me a freaking break.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're exactly right, and the thing is, too, Indie Car has over these F1 drivers is that a lot of these forming the one drivers do not want to touch oval racing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oval racing is a completely different set of skills that these Indie Car drivers do have alongside their free and road course racing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're doing two completely different types of racing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and two completely different types of cars because they set up oval cars and street cars very differently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's just another skill that these any car drivers have over these F1 drivers that they're not even willing to touch over racing because it is honestly dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I get their point of view, but you're a race car driver, getting the car and drive.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: honestly, the racing is just way more competitive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, this year's Formula One series was interesting to watch only because of the championship battle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was not because of the racing on track.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The racing on track was some of the most boring racing I've ever watched.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I love rate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love I can start to great, man.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Start to fantastic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First two laps are pretty cool and then the change of file.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've been to a few and it's been like that forever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been a
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  [SPEAKER_00]: uh... type uh... racing and and decaras at every freaking week even venues last year we didn't expect they had great races it just goes to show you how we talk about it agnazium but man they're racing in any car is just so it feels a lot more superior than formula one just because it's just it's so incredibly tight which is which is even better than that car now
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, of course for a long time you could drive right up next to somebody could bump into them and so it made for better racing I would not sure that's the case any more They've they've really got this formula down well in any card super excited to see them we're out the new car here and I think 28 is the years gonna be the first season with the new car so we still got a couple years with this chassis, which I'm all for I'm it's proven to be a winner
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just hope they don't mess things up, man.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they don't mess it up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because there have been some chassis than the past that have not been great and have caused not the driving not to be as good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, got to be careful about that.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I definitely get the point of them trying to evolve, but man, the racing is just so damn good.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So good.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've been an indie car fan for 45 years and it's right now the racing is the best that's ever been.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that includes the indie car series, the indie racing league, which had just incredible oval battles.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: But right now, I look forward to every race road course, street course, oval, short oval, super speedway.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every race has my attention now, and that's never been the case before.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: The series is really just in a great, great standpoint with Fox coming in to really interested to see what they're going to be able to do next year having a year under their belt.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It really feels like this fort today gets bogged.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah, we're not going to have an Indie car report next week unless there's breaking news.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Breaking Conner Daily News is what we would hope if not we will be back on Christmas, Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: you're not going to be around your family all day, right?
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: But no, seriously.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Any day the rest of the week, Elijah and I will be talking.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: about the 2025 year and review, lots of cool things we're gonna be talking about.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then the following week on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, we will have a special Indie car report where Elijah and I will look forward to the 2026 in a pretty cool way.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: So right now I want to kind of tease that by asking you Elijah, if there was a new Indie car fan who are the three drivers you'd tell to keep an eye on this year?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's start off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have to go with last year's champion Alex Polo.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Coming off of the year, he just had in 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was absolutely dominating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's able to go into 2026 with any signs that he is just as dominating as 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What a year we're in for.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: We all watched his talent last year.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just unimaginable how fast he was, how consistent he was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he was just really incredible all year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A second one would have to be a will power.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, we know he's been up pensky, or he had been up pensky, I should say, for 17 seasons.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's now going to be in the Andrade car.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a huge, huge move that happened this off season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and seeing him just in a different car that's not that Verizon 12 is going to be so weird.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's also going to be very interesting to see how he deals with the whole new organization.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Dr. Eddie Carr is not the Pinsky car.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So him being in a new seat is definitely going to be fun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then my third and final driver is actually going to be a rookie with mixed humacker signing to Ray Hall Letterman Lannigan.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a no-brainer that he's going to be somebody who's got a lot of eyeballs on him.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: His last name is obviously carries the weight of his father.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: We all know how good his father was, but it's going to be interesting to see if he can kind of pave his own career.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: He had some formula one.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't call it success, but I would say he had some really good formula one experience.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And him coming into indie cars, definitely going to be something to watch to see if he can stack up against these very, very talented set of drivers.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: be very interested to see what Ray Hall letterman land again has to offer next year.
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've always been a fan of Grand Ray Hall.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to see him back in contention as well.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know he's always going to be good at Indian middle higher.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah, thank you so much for your time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it as always, and everybody, thank you so much for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We really appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again, Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I love choosing.