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Indy 500 Reaction with Elijah Poe, Dave Chanley & Michelle Garmon (The IndyCar Report with Elijah Poe, 2.273.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to a special edition of the Indicar Report with Elijah Poe.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Elijah's Dave Channelies, Michelle Garmin's, and my reaction to the 2026 Indianapolis 500.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Indicar Report with Elijah Poe.
0:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Elijah Poe here with Michelle Garmin, Gregwin Galen, Dave Channelie here.
0:31
[SPEAKER_01]: and we just witnessed one of the best ever runnings of the Indianapolis 500.
0:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say, that last lap pass happened right in front of me.
0:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never gone crazy or at an Indian car race.
0:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
0:43
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you guys think about?
0:44
[SPEAKER_01]: The outcome today with Felix Rosenquist taking his first win with Martian Gray thing and they coming at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
0:56
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a heck of a race.
0:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Immediately as I saw that in the way it went, my mind went back to the islands through junior and that's got good, your finish.
1:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that was the closest finish I believe that I had ever seen until this one.
1:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I would have to say in my party it was probably, it's probably the best race I've ever seen.
1:18
[SPEAKER_00]: But at Indy.
1:20
[SPEAKER_00]: it had to be uh... with all that was going on with the strategy there were with uh... twenty laps with thirty forty laps to go there would be became two races and two distinct strategies what's that it's really pretty strategies yeah yeah and uh... phenomenal
1:45
[SPEAKER_00]: phenomenal and I want I can't wait to watch the replay because that last lap well the last three laps you had McLaughlin go from 10th to 3rd you had Armstrong on the last lap
2:16
[SPEAKER_00]: and kept it on the outside and kept it out of trouble.
2:22
[SPEAKER_00]: And then one the race by probably three feet or two feet.
2:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Daya, and it doesn't get any better than that.
2:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, it would've only way it would've been better is actually they should have had two laps there at the end of green flag racing.
2:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why they had that extra caution.
2:40
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, one more caution lap to go.
2:44
[SPEAKER_03]: are to go, yeah, green white flag at the same time because there was no damage to Schumacher's car.
2:51
[SPEAKER_03]: There was no debris on the racetrack.
2:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything was fine.
2:55
[SPEAKER_03]: They could have gone green for two, the final two laps and that would have been fun.
3:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll now would have been the best way for that to finish and I'm really disappointed they didn't do that then I think we would have gotten the right finish not that it wasn't right in the end but it just felt with one laugh just to I didn't like it let's just say that but let's say here on the finish of the race because I thought Rosenquist and Armstrong
3:31
[SPEAKER_02]: And if they had lined up, it knows detail.
3:34
[SPEAKER_02]: They definitely would have gotten Malukas earlier, and that, but they just both were saying, I'm winning this race.
3:39
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not cooperating with each other because we're teammates.
3:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna be the one who won the race and Rosenquist having that outside line ended up being the difference.
3:49
[SPEAKER_02]: And man, what a perfect lap he ran.
3:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought Malukas blew it at the end.
3:55
[SPEAKER_02]: He moved over to try to block Rosenquist
4:03
[SPEAKER_02]: It was brutal.
4:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I think, and by block, I don't want to say he was cheating blocking.
4:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm saying that block is going for the win.
4:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
4:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
4:12
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't blame him for moving in front of him.
4:14
[SPEAKER_02]: But when he did that, what it did was allow Rosenquist a door to sneak in there and win that I don't think he would have had had he not tried to move over.
4:23
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I've seen the interview with Armstrong who said after the race, he felt like he had to kind of lift off or they were going to collide.
4:30
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I would kind of argue that, you know, this is the last lap.
4:35
[SPEAKER_01]: This is lap 200, 200 of the Indianapolis 500.
4:37
[SPEAKER_01]: You have the inside line on turn four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you hit your teammate or not, you should be flat.
4:45
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
4:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't, I don't what you're saying.
4:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought you could see a clip more times.
4:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Elijah did see a clip where he said he doesn't think he'd said if you had it to do over again, he's not sure he would do he would make the same decision that he made today.
5:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they could have probably made it as it is, but I mean, how about Felix outside on one and two and three?
5:08
[SPEAKER_01]: God around on four, I don't think I've ever seen somebody on lap 200 other than maybe New Garden a couple years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Take it on the outside of one, two, and three.
5:18
[SPEAKER_01]: It was absolutely insane.
5:20
[SPEAKER_01]: And just the absolute risk he took there.
5:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Like sure, they've swept up some of the marbles and stuff, but this is lap 200, 200.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These cars are beaten down to a pulp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact he was able to pull that off and catch a pensky that honestly looked
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[SPEAKER_01]: really good all day.
5:36
[SPEAKER_01]: David Malukis is incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I look isn't below had the best two cars all day.
5:43
[SPEAKER_02]: And I really thought at the end they were going to be the two.
5:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And but Malukis was just so good.
5:50
[SPEAKER_02]: And I understand why he was crying at the end of the race because he is going to that's going to be a nightmare for him the rest of his life.
5:59
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad they have to go racing next week.
6:01
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the best thing for him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he doesn't, he can't spend a couple of weeks replaying that last lap over and over in his mind.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He'll have to turn around and get ready for Detroit next weekend.
6:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think the shoe marker incident was a reaction.
6:20
[SPEAKER_03]: they they any time somebody hits wall they throw the re out they they just throw the yellow so it was wrong sure uh... from the yellow three laps of yellow they knew they tell right away his car was still working fine there was no debris they didn't agree that they didn't even surprise they didn't extra lap of caution what when they didn't go green i thought what are they doing that there's no reason they're not going green right now zero
6:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I liked it.
6:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked the way it ended.
6:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked the whole thing.
6:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked the racing.
6:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked the way they were side by side.
6:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but so.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Think about two laps of green.
6:57
[SPEAKER_03]: That would have been so good.
7:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, but who would have won?
7:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe more so.
7:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Would have strong enough held on, because he went from one to five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's in the lead.
7:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's Malukus or Maglaco, and if it goes another lap.
7:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Scotty Mack was flying.
7:15
[SPEAKER_00]: But I still want to see how he got from 10 to three.
7:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I now also want to see with one lap to go.
7:23
[SPEAKER_00]: And you are coming down for a restart.
7:26
[SPEAKER_00]: How many people jumped the restart?
7:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't read his VK did for sure.
7:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he got a great launch.
7:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.
7:34
[SPEAKER_01]: But then again, I think has to be said, it reads VK, what a performance.
7:38
[SPEAKER_01]: But other words, below wins, by the way.
7:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, sorry, let me just say this real fast.
7:44
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought, hello on that last restop was heading right to the front and VK jumped out in front of nothing wrong with anything the VK did.
7:52
[SPEAKER_02]: But it cut off, hello, who had a line straight to the front.
7:58
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was what allowed Rosenquist Armstrong and Malukas to get out in front.
8:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah.
8:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Great performance again, Elijah, by VK to be up there.
8:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Just suddenly up there at the end.
8:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and what you say there might be correct Greg, but that's racing.
8:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it is.
8:21
[SPEAKER_00]: All of that is part of racing.
8:23
[SPEAKER_00]: It is just, hey, especially with a lap to go.
8:26
[SPEAKER_00]: It's every man for himself and they were, they all were.
8:30
[SPEAKER_00]: They were all, they were all, it was wrong Dave, I'm just saying that it happened.
8:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, okay.
8:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you guys see Connor Daley's tweet afterwards?
8:40
[SPEAKER_03]: Daily, he was up.
8:42
[SPEAKER_03]: He said it was tough day, best car he's ever had.
8:46
[SPEAKER_03]: He was up.
8:46
[SPEAKER_03]: So he got passed under yellow and he on that last yellow, he said when it came out, he got passed and he said they never, he said they never didn't agree order.
8:56
[SPEAKER_03]: And he probably, he maybe, that's why he thought they were going to an extra lap of caution.
9:05
[SPEAKER_03]: on that last jello.
9:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like a couple of the decisions they made took a little bit of the shine off of what was an incredible Indian Apple 500.
9:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I think any card is, especially the last lap couple laps ago stuff.
9:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I think if you look back in the five years, any card is set this precedent.
9:29
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think that would be normal.
9:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I think at the 500 especially, they've kind of made up their mind and agree with them or don't, but especially as a fan that's there, there's nothing that I don't want more than to see a pace car lead a field across the ticker finish line.
9:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
9:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
9:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why exactly why I thought the red flag was a great decision.
9:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
9:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it was.
9:56
[SPEAKER_00]: But I thought it was, I'm going to, I thought at that point,
10:01
[SPEAKER_00]: it was going to take the race away from on the strategy.
10:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I really believe Rosen Quest Armstrong and Potto had enough distance.
10:16
[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't going to be caught.
10:18
[SPEAKER_03]: Dave, your Potto's crew, according to what if you listen to it on TV?
10:23
[SPEAKER_03]: They were they were sweating that they really didn't think he had enough.
10:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Now Rosenquist and come in here in Armstrong and come in after Potto come in like Kench Cliff and towns and they were talking about that that if with with no caution laps they didn't think that Potto can make it because he was going to have to say too much fuel that or if he went all out he would you know
10:47
[SPEAKER_03]: He wouldn't be able to make fuel.
10:49
[SPEAKER_02]: He was either going to have to be very interesting.
10:51
[SPEAKER_02]: That's for sure.
10:52
[SPEAKER_02]: If there was no yellow picture, it was going to be really interesting because Malucus was coming fast.
10:58
[SPEAKER_02]: And those guys were definitely going to have to slow down if nothing else.
11:02
[SPEAKER_02]: They might have been able to make it to the end, but they were going to have to slow down if they did.
11:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you guys remember the Indy 500, the Dan Weldon one.
11:10
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought this was going to happen with Malucus.
11:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was a possibility of something that might happen.
11:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Because Malukus was that much better than the rest of the field it felt like until he got to the front like everybody else What's the cars in the front there is vulnerable no matter what the situation is, right?
11:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially well, especially on a restart the one place you didn't want to be was in the front front You were gonna get overtaken, but I might roll it back and my hats off
11:41
[SPEAKER_00]: to Rosenquist, the whole group of about six or seven cars that went into the pits.
11:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Topped off, and came out, and we're going to have to make about 34 laps, and then they were going to have to make about 34 more laps.
12:04
[SPEAKER_00]: and roll the dice with it.
12:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was the winning move, the winning strategy.
12:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I was watching that and I said, they have just stolen this race from Malukus and Polo.
12:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because they, I was glockling and daily, that those four guys were going to run away with those guys hadn't done it.
12:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
12:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
12:31
[SPEAKER_00]: my hats off to them.
12:32
[SPEAKER_00]: They strategized and it worked out perfect for them.
12:37
[SPEAKER_00]: It went on the race.
12:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when you look and you could go down through all one through eight, all there's a story there in the last 15, 10, 5 laps for one through eight, all of them, all of them.
12:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just, that's what made it great.
13:00
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I think made it a tremendous race was, those two straight, you had two races going on.
13:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're watching, I mean, they were just combobulated.
13:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody was watching and thinking, a lot of people were thinking that, well, Malukas is in the lead, no, he's not a lead.
13:17
[SPEAKER_00]: He's about 20 seconds back.
13:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And,
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of ground to make up at a 210 miles per hour compared to 222 miles per hour.
13:29
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of ground to make up.
13:31
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did not think I was thinking, I don't think they can do it.
13:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Getting there is one thing, passing them as another.
13:38
[SPEAKER_00]: But you get to, there was nine laps.
13:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I think when the caution came out.
13:44
[SPEAKER_00]: And that means if they go seven more laps in fuel saver mode, they're down to two laps and they're still in the lead because you're not going to make up that much ground and then you're going to be hard to pass because you know by that time, the fuel saver mode is over and they're going to go full out and Rosenquist had a fast car.
14:06
[SPEAKER_03]: David, Greg and I had the benefit of watching on TV.
14:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Malucus was coming.
14:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he shaved his two laps.
14:15
[SPEAKER_03]: He shaved off like seven seconds off that lead.
14:19
[SPEAKER_03]: He was proud of wine.
14:21
[SPEAKER_03]: He was doing laps at way over to, he was doing laps 10 miles an hour faster than Rosenquist in Potto and Armstrong.
14:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he was fine.
14:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I think on TV, it probably looked like that, but being at the track, it was a huge gap in person.
14:42
[SPEAKER_01]: It was.
14:43
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a big gap.
14:45
[SPEAKER_01]: It kind of, in talking about Dave, he talked about other two strategies, there was also a third element where it could just start raining at any seconds.
14:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
15:01
[SPEAKER_00]: And it started raining 10 minutes after the race, unbelievable.
15:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you I cannot believe they got this full race in I know yes, I know he's great.
15:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I Was great one wanted to see it in there at 102 laps, but Scott Dixon is but he could have had seven in the 500 wins and he has one It's a true shame
15:29
[SPEAKER_00]: And where they finished, my first, at the end, my question was, what happened to Dixon?
15:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Where did he go?
15:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And what happened also to Connor Daley?
15:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he was running with the Ford lead, the Ford in the pack.
15:45
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the finish, where was he?
15:49
[SPEAKER_02]: some of the strategies got between them and the leaders and it just took them completely away from the lead group of malukas.
15:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, one of those and one of those was Reedus VK was on that strategy.
16:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Just the top off strategy.
16:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And good for him.
16:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Great for him.
16:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I just my hats off.
16:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I love strategy.
16:14
[SPEAKER_00]: And those guys pulled a rabbit out of the hatch.
16:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Was that strategy?
16:19
[SPEAKER_02]: And the other thing is that a car all month, too, they did it, they did it.
16:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Myrshen, uh, yeah.
16:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, with Connor daily, though, it was, it was just the last recent, it was the second to the last restart before Schumacher hit the wall.
16:37
[SPEAKER_03]: He and Paolo, they were coming, and I don't know if it was VK or somebody, they were went to go different way, and it was like, all the sudden, they just like let
16:49
[SPEAKER_03]: created a jam.
16:50
[SPEAKER_03]: And that is racing.
16:51
[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing wrong with that.
16:52
[SPEAKER_03]: But their momentum on the restart got halted.
16:56
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's big.
16:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
16:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
17:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it was everything at that point.
17:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I was thinking those two McLaughlin and daily be charging from the back.
17:07
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was right.
17:08
[SPEAKER_02]: They were just one of them was able to get through.
17:11
[SPEAKER_02]: And the other wasn't that was the difference.
17:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, somebody who I think we all thought was going to charge from the back and I think one of the most shocking moments of the race took himself out of the race was Joseph new gardens restart incident just getting down in that current concrete and spending I think he had one of the best looking cars of the day, but Huge huge mistake from new garden that we often don't see
17:35
[SPEAKER_00]: it was and he was right in the thick of it he had gotten himself from all the way to the back kept kept just patiently patiently moving up and there he was all of a sudden in fourth place and he took himself out okay the best cars today were without doubt below in the pinsky so he definitely was going to have a shot if he stayed in and author was in twist had a fast car too yeah
18:01
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... yeah no question uh... he would have been right in the thick of it he had a hash out uh... but that's racing again uh... that that's uh... wow that he took himself out is just a headscratcher because of your right new gardens better than that another one ad carpenter very upset with the kumasato
18:28
[SPEAKER_02]: some words after the race for Sato saying, I don't understand why we're going three wide 20 year laps into the race.
18:36
[SPEAKER_02]: The bad move by Sato.
18:37
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a bad move by Sato.
18:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And you could feel bad for Ed.
18:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, did you think of this?
18:45
[SPEAKER_00]: This, we have may have witnessed the last race,
18:56
[SPEAKER_00]: to Kumusato and L.O.
18:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Castro, and us.
19:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Those four are great drivers.
19:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And all four may have just raised their last Indie 500.
19:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they may have, of those four, it's icy, L.O.
19:13
[SPEAKER_03]: coming back.
19:14
[SPEAKER_02]: He says he wants you from one way.
19:16
[SPEAKER_03]: He just loves it so much, and he keeps himself so fit in, and you know,
19:24
[SPEAKER_00]: But today, really, he was never a factor.
19:28
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
19:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but he got up there.
19:30
[SPEAKER_03]: He got up at the ninth.
19:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it was a sneaky, all of a sudden you look in up there.
19:34
[SPEAKER_03]: He was a ninth and it was kind of sneaky.
19:37
[SPEAKER_03]: It was kind of sneaky.
19:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it was part of that strategy.
19:39
[SPEAKER_03]: He was just, but that's what makes.
19:41
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why he's so good and has won four and five hundreds.
19:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Because he knows that track.
19:46
[SPEAKER_03]: He knows the strategies to use.
19:50
[SPEAKER_01]: but half off to Takuma for phishing intent.
19:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I still think so.
19:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and impressive result for him.
19:56
[SPEAKER_02]: And he was on the same strategy as Rosenquist and those guys, and he actually went of lap further.
20:05
[SPEAKER_02]: than the other two, Rosenquist and Armstrong.
20:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Not enough pace for the Ray Hall team.
20:10
[SPEAKER_02]: It's good to snow it's not enough pace for that team.
20:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Not enough pace.
20:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Breaking news right now.
20:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Indie Car fish shading is issued a post-race technical inspection inspection penalty for the number 10 chip-genacity racing entry, following the Indianapolis 500 for a violate the Speedway Front, wing, and inflate height requirements.
20:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the entry has been penalized five championship points and $10,000.
20:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they don't make this deck like that very often.
20:39
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't.
20:40
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's, yeah, I was going to say that's nothing, that's nothing to those guys.
20:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Five points.
20:47
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you're going to say down here.
20:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
20:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Last year, Ericson got moved from second to the back of the pack.
20:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think that should be.
20:57
[SPEAKER_01]: a talking point.
20:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's probably, who doesn't have the correct measurements for the wings and, and that, I mean, that's, yeah, it's big for somebody to get docked to five championship points.
21:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're talking about Alex Bowies.
21:12
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a billion championship points at any race he can show up as right and $10,000.
21:20
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like me, so on a quarter into the plot and poker game.
21:25
[SPEAKER_02]: it will be interesting to see the complete report after when they come out and it could be something so minor there just hey that's why it's five point yeah exactly but I want to I want to I want to I want to I want to I want to point out two more I want to point out two more guys
21:51
[SPEAKER_00]: He somehow got that car to fourth plate and he did.
21:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I doubt seriously if he passed a car on the track at any time during the race because he had a sick car and he got fourth place.
22:09
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, that's strategy and driving.
22:14
[SPEAKER_02]: David is car was so bad he said after the race he was glad it was over.
22:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, my hats off to him.
22:22
[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's fantastic.
22:24
[SPEAKER_00]: My, and the other guy we haven't mentioned, where in the world did Marcus Armstrong come from?
22:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
22:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he was making nice strides even until that last strategy.
22:44
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he was another one that was kind of sneaky all the sudden.
22:47
[SPEAKER_03]: He's up there.
22:48
[SPEAKER_03]: But he didn't.
22:49
[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't start super far back.
22:50
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
22:50
[SPEAKER_03]: He was nice.
22:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's impressive.
23:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Myrshank racing has two indie car wins and both of them are at the Indianapolis 500 and finishing fourth and fifth today.
23:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Incredible result for that team.
23:13
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think,
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Paddo could be in a myrshank car and would get this and what race done and I can't remember if somebody said it yesterday or a couple days ago, but man it's starting to feel like Paddo Award is this generation's toning on just there every time but just can't get it done quite yet.
23:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's hope he's toning around and not Michael and Dreddy.
23:35
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I was doing right now.
23:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that was Michael and Dreddy.
23:39
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he comes so close and couldn't get it out.
23:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to look five races and didn't win any of them.
23:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
23:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
23:46
[SPEAKER_00]: This is brutal.
23:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And we found out David Malukus is a super race driver today.
23:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
23:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember Dave texting me.
23:54
[SPEAKER_02]: This probably five, six years ago.
23:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe Malukus was a rookie.
23:58
[SPEAKER_02]: You were at the track and you texted me, man.
24:00
[SPEAKER_02]: This Malukus is the talent.
24:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
24:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
24:04
[SPEAKER_02]: It's called right away.
24:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I also want to give a little shout out to the rookies today.
24:10
[SPEAKER_03]: And I thought Colette did a wonderful job.
24:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I hated that he had that accident in his car cut on fire.
24:16
[SPEAKER_03]: Because he was first having to start last because of the penalty after qualifications.
24:23
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought he also did a nice job.
24:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I just thought Dennis Howger did it.
24:27
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, Schumacher got back to
24:31
[SPEAKER_03]: strategy.
24:31
[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't have a great car.
24:33
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just the strategy that got him in there, but I really thought the three rookies weren't too bad today.
24:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's four able, but he was at the back of the pack all day.
24:43
[SPEAKER_00]: But the other three, I agree.
24:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Hogger will probably get the rookies a year, but I was very impressed with Kai Colette.
24:50
[SPEAKER_00]: He got to the front.
25:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and that's how it's off to, to fight racing.
25:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
25:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this appointment for A was guy picked for Uchi, but he finished eighth.
25:10
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still, you know, he still does whatever he does at that track.
25:14
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a top 10 every time he's never missed.
25:17
[SPEAKER_00]: He's never missed the lap.
25:19
[SPEAKER_00]: He was never really a factor as far as going to win today.
25:24
[SPEAKER_00]: But he was still there.
25:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's one that definitely complained.
25:30
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... blown by on the restart and they jump three start on me yet but yet they were saying on they were saying on TV that you don't have to get to the start finish like as soon as they you're told and they say green green green you're going you do not you don't have to you don't have to you don't have to wait for you on that front straightaway if you're coming out of turn three in the turn four and they go green you go but there you have to
25:58
[SPEAKER_02]: There were no questions before the green flu.
26:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you know this.
26:05
[SPEAKER_00]: You know this if you're a racer.
26:07
[SPEAKER_00]: You got nothing to lose.
26:08
[SPEAKER_00]: What are they going to do?
26:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Set your back.
26:09
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to do that.
26:10
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the last lap of the end of 500.
26:12
[SPEAKER_00]: You just, I would have started passing a third turn before it went.
26:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, come get me.
26:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to go.
26:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get you some antics.
26:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting me Dave.
26:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, I'm still mad about that one.
26:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still upset about that one because he was in the lead.
26:30
[SPEAKER_00]: He was going to win the thing.
26:31
[SPEAKER_00]: But all in all, it was ECR had a bad day.
26:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Pansky, Pansky had a good day.
26:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they were the best cars all day.
26:44
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they're back on street and road courses, but on ovals, Pansky's back.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's had such a bad day.
26:50
[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't talked about them once.
26:53
[SPEAKER_01]: and dready my goodness.
26:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
26:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
26:56
[SPEAKER_01]: My good.
26:57
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a really good job.
26:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
26:59
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a good job there.
27:01
[SPEAKER_01]: But, oh, Marcus Erickson always, I thought he made me want to speak that a top 10 finishing in 13th.
27:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I still think that's an overperformance for how horrible that car is.
27:12
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, we're seeing real championship contenders.
27:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, like Kyle Kirkwood finished 16th, uh, you know, I don't, I'm not sure what exactly happened with Will Powers car, but, uh, I know that was just a mechanical issue.
27:27
[SPEAKER_01]: That's, I think the second or third year in a row, I don't know if he's even finished.
27:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it's just, I mean, that haven't won the 500 since 2017 and it's not looking any brighter for them anytime soon.
27:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Kirkwood had gotten up to ninth before the split in the strategy.
27:45
[SPEAKER_00]: It was basically, in fact, it was almost right after him as where the strategy came into poor and he had gotten in to ninth.
27:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and I was, Eric's in a gotten all the way up to sixth.
27:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm wondering, those guys are probably hitting their selves on the head and said, dang, why didn't we try that?
28:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know what, they're dating, you're right.
28:05
[SPEAKER_03]: And they were on a plan in Kirkwood.
28:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Because they did the driver interview thing with him and, you know, he said, they had a strategy of what place they wanted to be at at each, you know, at each segment of the race.
28:20
[SPEAKER_03]: weren't trying to, they weren't trying to make it up, make up ground too fast.
28:23
[SPEAKER_03]: They just wanted to be kind of methodical about it.
28:27
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think part of that alternate strategy was because I think different people were getting different information about rain and when it was coming and they wanted to make sure they had the fuel and they could do it.
28:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And because there were you can hear some chiefs on the radio who said, oh, rain's like 45 minutes away and it
28:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously it was longer than that, but so I think that that's what some of that was that was the conflicting information that we're getting from the whoever it is watching the radar
29:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Dave earlier said mentioned four guys.
29:06
[SPEAKER_02]: You could be retiring.
29:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I throw in a fifth and will power.
29:09
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just no longer a factor in the series.
29:12
[SPEAKER_02]: He just hasn't been really a championship contender for five years now.
29:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I've mentioned we've mentioned his name at Indy since he won the 500.
29:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we've got a lot of questions left on this calendar.
29:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give him a little bit of credit.
29:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I've used done.
29:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, that one, I hadn't thought of that one, but I think he'll be back to see he just loves it too much.
29:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
29:37
[SPEAKER_02]: He won't be in the 500.
29:38
[SPEAKER_02]: He has not been very good since.
29:42
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the one good thing, though, the one thing that all of those, most of those guys can say except Ed Carbender, is I've won an in the 500.
29:52
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
29:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, it's all time great.
29:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just, yeah, that's what yours is not been.
29:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
29:58
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see will retiring no, Greg.
30:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't, that's a good one to throw out there.
30:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Greg, I do, but I really think the other four, I think we saw there, we have seen part of my grandma.
30:15
[SPEAKER_00]: We have seen their last Indy 500.
30:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I really believe that.
30:20
[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, there are two guys.
30:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this would be their last Indie 500, but they were so good today.
30:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe not.
30:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Kiffin Simpson and Nolan Siegel were both really racing and came up through the floor.
30:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Kiffin Simpson was good and I think he got, I'm going to, he was in the top 10.
30:36
[SPEAKER_00]: He was doing well and all of a sudden he, where do you go?
30:40
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that might have been a mistake in strategy.
30:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Simpson was good today.
30:46
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a lot, there was a lot of good racing back in the pack.
30:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope they never change these chassis, I hope they never change these chassis.
30:56
[SPEAKER_02]: It's 28.
30:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I know this.
30:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they're so perfect on ovals, they're so perfect, I don't want to mess with this formula.
31:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I know, but it's coming, it will be coming.
31:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I look, I wonder if Toyota will ever get back in and be a third engine company.
31:15
[SPEAKER_00]: We need a four.
31:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's already confirmed or not.
31:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
31:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I think since the charters have already been signed up for 2021, we know Myershank is getting an extra Honda Charter.
31:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it all but seals it for any other brands that come in.
31:31
[SPEAKER_01]: But
31:32
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I honestly, you look at the top five is Honda, Chevy, Chevy, Honda, and Honda is one at four what the second year in a row now.
31:43
[SPEAKER_01]: It used to be, you know, I remember a couple years ago when the Honda's in 2024, we were, I think, three or four of them just blew up, blew an engine.
31:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Honda has looked really strong and Rosenquist arguably should have put it on the pole and then one of the race today.
32:00
[SPEAKER_01]: You could have had a clean month sweep and I think the instructor wars right now are pretty evenly matched I did too.
32:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't chivey.
32:09
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great battle.
32:09
[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna go all year They're pretty both pretty good solid I wonder if Collette will be available on Sunday in Detroit or Rossi Oh, Rossi will probably not race.
32:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what did you call that get heart
32:29
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a really hard hit.
32:30
[SPEAKER_02]: He was lying into that wall.
32:31
[SPEAKER_02]: And with that fire, I was a little worried about him.
32:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, luckily, I mean, I think it goes to the safety of these indie cars.
32:35
[SPEAKER_02]: We've had some really, really nasty crashes.
32:36
[SPEAKER_01]: The last really three years and luckily, I think the war's injuries probably were also here.
32:38
[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
32:39
[SPEAKER_01]: These cars, these cars, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're
32:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're unbelievably safe for hitting a wall at 220 miles per hour.
33:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to put the kiss of death on somebody.
33:13
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a really bad choice of words and I dare.
33:16
[SPEAKER_00]: But, they're safe, they're phenomenal, and that's great.
33:24
[SPEAKER_00]: That's great.
33:26
[SPEAKER_03]: We know when I did my interview with Tony Kanan, he talked about safety and how much it has improved through the years.
33:34
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the cars, what they do in the cars, and then just the safer barriers, the things that they've done at the track to absorb the impact.
33:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Not to create is between the cars and all that that create as much flip, you know, you don't see him flipping over each other very often anymore and so kudos to indie car for the advancements they've made in safety.
33:59
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna go, I have not seen the replay.
34:02
[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys can tell me how good Fox is on this race, but I am gonna say this, Fox is brought into this and this has now become, if you did not watch today and you did not get it, if you watch today and you did not become in any car fan, there's something wrong with you.
34:21
[SPEAKER_00]: It was that good and to my friends who didn't go
34:29
[SPEAKER_00]: It pales in comparison to being there, being there is just incredible.
34:38
[SPEAKER_00]: It's incredible.
34:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I was listening to it on the way home from a wedding.
34:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen to the beginning, watch the end, and I made the decision.
34:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not missing again next year.
34:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I goose bumps in the car, listening to what was going on, and I was like,
34:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I and I actually hit 80 miles an hour on the interstate accidentally.
34:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, you're pumped and I just decided I got in.
35:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I am just on your and just on personal.
35:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I got in today quicker and out today quicker than I have in years.
35:10
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's off to myself on on this my strategy there.
35:16
[SPEAKER_00]: It yeah, it was just a great day.
35:22
[SPEAKER_00]: 42 straight.
35:24
[SPEAKER_00]: More than almost 50 actual, but 42 straight.
35:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And I like I said, I every time I like my seat and I still like my seat.
35:35
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the next to the top row in the south vista halfway between one and two.
35:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I can see them start down to.
35:43
[SPEAKER_00]: It is just every time I think, you know, I wonder if I want to switch seats.
35:47
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't want to switch seats.
35:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I park about a half mile away.
35:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got a friend that lets me park there for free, lives in Speedway, and I drive in, and I drive out, and I walk a half mile.
35:59
[SPEAKER_00]: It's phenomenal.
36:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got this thing figured out.
36:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Elijah, is that where you want to sit for the rest of your life?
36:07
[SPEAKER_01]: My god, I was absolutely spoiled today with that past coming right in front of my eyes.
36:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I would absolutely, I would die to sit there.
36:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I told the person that brought us, you let me know how much it's taken this next year and I will have the money for it.
36:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because it was pretty incredible.
36:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never, I've sat on the front straight before, but never in the panic fan house and, yeah, it's gonna be hard to beat.
36:34
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just better up there.
36:35
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a better world up there.
36:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean it the higher the better although I missed the troughs.
36:40
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no troughs up there Dang it That is great.
36:50
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you guys are lucky you guys get the troughs
37:00
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was really good.
37:01
[SPEAKER_01]: It was not a good racing.
37:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I just cannot believe it didn't rain.
37:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it just felt like I could pour at any second Okay, I think what it made the race honestly go by quicker because people were just waiting What's it gonna rain when's it gonna rain when's it gonna rain and it never did it was a let's early 500 and I really hope that a series keeps this momentum going up into Troy Which usually provided some really good racing and one we know I like blowing Kyle Kirkwood.
37:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna be good at
37:30
[SPEAKER_02]: And the rest of the season can be talked about on another day.
37:35
[SPEAKER_02]: The ND500 is kind of its own season.
37:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Season all to itself.
37:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Now we move on.
37:41
[SPEAKER_02]: And Elijah Nile will be back and often with Dave and Michelle for the ND car report every Thursday going forward with reactions to every race.
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