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IndyCar: Iowa 2 Recap + Reaction with Elijah Poe, Dave Chanley & Michelle Garmon (Podcast No. 324.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and twenty four point two Our recap and then Elijah pose reaction to Sundays Second race of the Iowa double-header weekend with guest Dave Chandley and Michelle Garmin Sports editor of the Dipton Tribune and Elwood Collector
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, Indie Car fans and welcome to the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Today is July, fourteen, twenty, twenty, five, it's a Monday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, a little late getting the song, busy, busy Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host, Greg Mendgelt podcasting today from headquarters in Jeffersonville.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Producer Susie is in the control room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coming up, we have our recap of Sunday's race in ten minutes or less.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Followed by Elijah Pose reaction to another Alex Polo win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Joseph New Gardens, bad luck in him somehow transforming into a giant baby.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Dreddy's Horrible Weekend and Depressive Drives by Marcus Erickson, Christian, Rasmussen, Fort Racing, and Connor Daily.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Elijah and I were joined by guest Dave Channelly and Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune and L. Wood Colleter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to all of that, just want to let you know about our indie car coverage every week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Elijah Poe and I have our indie car report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: typically midweek and then we preview every race after qualifying and then recap and react to each and every race on the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can probably expect this week's Indie car report midweek.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A Toronto preview Saturday evening and of course the recap and reaction Sunday evening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your Indie car recap from the second race at Iowa begins now.
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[SPEAKER_10]: the white flag is out on Alec Polo is he works his way around one more car running at the rear of the field and he passes it with ease.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Scott Dickson is giving Chase trying to close but Scott's got to lift a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Alec Polo comes up and turn number four for the final time.
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[SPEAKER_10]: The advance on a part checker flag flies and Alec Polo goes to victory lane.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He wins the five to finish, two seventy five.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Scott Dickson finished the second.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Marcus Armstrong is third.
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[SPEAKER_10]: David Polo, Chris is fourth and Arnold Ward completes the top five.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That, of course, is the great Mark James of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network with the call of Alex Polo's seventh win in twelve races this season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He now has eighteen career victories in ninety three starts and essentially wrapped up his third straight national championship Sunday in his fourth in five years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: By beating teammate Scott Dixon by five hundred and twenty eight thousands of a second
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[SPEAKER_03]: at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hello, address the Iowa crowd following the race.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Incredible, honestly, what an incredible weekend for us, getting the poll, getting the wind today, hiding and going through traffic, it's through the strategies we have, there's a little bit there, but it's awesome to get another wind.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Another one, two for the team, a wind for the Honda, one, two, three for Honda, so pretty good, and yeah, kind of way to, third again.
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[SPEAKER_08]: As always, time is everything there was that caution for Barry Wands or Richard of course to keep you guarding the lap down and then just a couple laps toiferous with that last caution flag before you made the pitch just.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, we knew that he was going to be top for us.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We're struggling towards the end of the scene, some tires compared to our competitors.
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[SPEAKER_06]: How do you know that?
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[SPEAKER_06]: On track, we're not going to be able to beat them.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to lose like probably one or two positions by staying out, but we thought he was the safest in terms of strategy, trying to get a yellow and a final team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, really proud of all the work, amazing beat stops and strategies you once again by the number ten car.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Lastly, I mean, not only to have all the participants to win on your career, but to do it all the ones season, we're starting to run out of words to describe, but what to do with what this season's been like for you and Barry Wands, we're in ship and RC, the ship and RC comes in, and just can you continue just to describe what this year's been like?
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's been incredible.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's been amazing.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We cannot believe it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I have like no words to describe.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The amazing people that we have in the team and the opportunity to their giving me every single weekend.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, I can't wait to get to turn on the next weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, with special about this victory was it was closed first on a short oval.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just a second win on an oval ever coming on the heels of this Indianapolis five hundred triumph in May.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hello, now he's the championship standings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Over second place, Paddo Award by a hundred and twenty nine points.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He benefited from a couple of late yellow flags that really hurt Joseph New Garden.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Something I've never seen in forty years of watching and decar racing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: On the penultimate round of pit stops, he was one of the first to pit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then the yellow flag came out putting New Garden a lap down.
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[SPEAKER_03]: After the round of pit stops,
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[SPEAKER_03]: He came out in thirteen place, charges away all the way back up to the front.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And then it happened again.
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[SPEAKER_10]: This time on the final pit stop,
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was in the pits now a lap down when the caution came out again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's time he came out in tenth place and there just wasn't enough time to recover.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just really bad luck for Joseph Newgarden.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He finished tenth after leading seventy two laps and clearly having the best car in the field.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But has been the case all season, New Garden pouted, and was short in this television interview and didn't speak with the radio crew again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: His tantrums are getting harder and harder to defend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He did speak very briefly with Fox's Jack Harvey after the race.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, we just got to keep doing what we are doing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Team pens he's working incredibly hard the whole group.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yesterday was a good day for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You could see the spirits lift, but they don't need to change what they're doing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They're doing a great job.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They brought a fast car here again today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And does that give you a lot of confidence heading into this next gaggle of races at you and your team?
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[SPEAKER_05]: So many good things happen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe just wait for something that perhaps is even out of your control just to fall into place.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We just keep doing the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, Joseph.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With his second place finished Scott Dixon is now third in the standings, a hundred and seventy-one points behind his Genacity teammate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And here Scott Dixon with the IMS radio network after the race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were extending the windows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We figured everybody else were too, so I think we had gained a couple of spots to that point just for people that have put it, but huge success to Alex.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously the CGR and Japan everybody involved, one, two, so always nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously another key we are with Marcus on the podium is pretty sweet too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, almost got to win here at Iowa, but maybe another step we would have been looking at here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like Dixon fellow New Zealander, Marcus Armstrong took advantage of a pit stop strategy and finished third.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Armstrong's finished gave Honda A podium sweep.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Malukas finished fourth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Saturday's Winner Pato Award was fifth followed by Christian Lungard, Felix Rosenquist, my pick to win the race.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Christian Rasmussen, Rookie Roberts Sportsman, and New Garden.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Pinsky's day got off to a horrible start again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Scott McLaughlin was involved in an accident with Devlin B. Francesco and Stingray Rob.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Will power finish twenty-fourth after his engine failed just twenty-one laps into the race.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, incredibly frustrating, especially on the day we have a colleague, Wayne.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Just pointing, man.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Just pointing is just funny how these things come at such inconvenient times, but it's not that everyone goes through.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's just one of those things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some other finishes of note rookie Joe Jacob Abel from Louisville had his career best the eleventh place finish.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Our guy Connor Daily was another who suffered bad luck driving out front all day and finishing sixteenth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A spot ahead of his amazing race teammate Alexander Rossi.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here's Connor with Indy car reporter Christopher de Harda.
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[SPEAKER_11]: To be honest, it's literally just his mere luck.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, this is racing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: times for me for some reason.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't think there ever be on the same strategy as Alex or Scott.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But I mean, our car was going to be at a really, really big lose moment on that last day.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But we were covered from it okay.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But there were other cars bidding behind us, so you kind of, yeah, the window was open.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So it's really, I mean, it's just purely bad luck.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, I don't know how it looks that much time will be.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I had to look at the pit stop time, somewhat bad.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We know that you go to that down here when you've been.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It just happened to be the worst possible time yellow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was an absolutely awful day for and ready racing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who had Kyle Kirkwood in eighteenth, Colton heard in twenty of Marcus Erickson in twenty second.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kirkwood entered the weekend, second in points, vannings and leaves in fourth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Chevrolet won its first race of the season on Saturday with Pato Awards victory at Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for a reaction from Elijah Poe Dave Chandley and Michelle Gungley.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're listening to the central Indiana sports report with your host, Craig Menjow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, Indy Carvans, to the Central Indian Sports Report and our reaction to the second Iowa race on Sunday afternoon, one that Alex blow one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And essentially, and for all intents and purposes, one is fourth championship in five years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The second backed up back championship, Elijah Alex, below is the guy.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Well, if Alex Flow wasn't scary before today, I think Indie Car fans in the paddock is on notice because he is just one his first short oval race of his Indie Car career and he's got the Infinity Gauntlet ready for the Avengers.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He has got everything in Indie Car now and it's all straight ahead for Alex Flow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's the phenom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He really is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's just on top of his game, but I also give credit to Chip Ganesi racing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you've got just a phenomenal team and the best driver.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, you are correct when you say for all intents and purposes, the championship is over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He could probably go out and just finish eight or ninth from every race on and he'd still win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure if he finished last every race.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He wouldn't still win.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I was thinking today when I was watching him just leave lap after lap after lap and I thought Andy was his first oval win and that was good racing but he bought kind of played into it, positioned him so well but today I mean I know New Garden took the lead from him a couple of times but pillow just was really good I mean he was so focused after making those two bobbles last week on the road course I just felt like he was just
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[SPEAKER_04]: really, really dialed in today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And while I just talked about Saturday's race, although had a good, he just had a good weekend on these short oles.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And he is, you're right, Dave, he's a phenom.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's just dominant.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's no better driver in Indie car right now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And no better team than ship gymnastics right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Michelle brought up the big story of the day, which wasn't Alex below.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We already knew he was going to win the championship.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This was his seventh win in twelve races.
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[SPEAKER_03]: About to we'll talk a little bit more about this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: About the greatest seasons of all time coming up this week on after a brief technical difficulty.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Today, but man, just like everybody said, it's just continued bad luck for Penske.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now say what you want about Joseph New Garden and his bad luck and it was really bad and it's been bad all season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But the way he's acting right now is really making me dislike him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's just acting like a little baby.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every he's winding up or every race he won't talk to media.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I just my poor feelings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just grow up and be a man and talk to the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's crowding.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's crowding and it's, it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's unbecoming.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's, it's one of the things I think because he's had so much success.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he's gotten a little too full of himself and thinks he's entitled, but yeah, he's having a bad season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you're right, man up and just say, yeah, I'm having a bad season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll go back to work and congratulations to the others.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll come back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_12]: It really is a shame too.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He's one of the...
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[SPEAKER_12]: the premier drivers in any car and for you to be turning away interviews or being really sure in a little bit passive aggressive it just comes off as wrong you know we know how good of a racing driver you are just own up to it and answering asking questions and answering them i mean that's just part of the job every single driver has to do it you it's what you sign up for and he might be in the belief where you know he doesn't want to get into the media because they're saying negative things
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[SPEAKER_12]: But you're getting paid a lot of money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Elijah, you can set the message if you talk to the media.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the message just needs to be where Pinsky will be back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You'll see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That is exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So some class.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He kind of finding out maybe a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My favorite phrase is karma is a disease.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: His attitude afterwards.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's not doing himself any favors.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you what, this is probably a really negative thing to say, but I never thought I'd see the day when Will Power looks really good compared to New Garden on this because Will is, he'll talk to the media.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know he gets upset, but he's classier than New Garden is right now.
15:26
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not even close.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking that earlier, Will Power said all the right things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, just been not been our year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's all you have to say.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Taris got a little bit of incentive too, because he doesn't have a contract for next year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, showing class and being professional after bad luck races is probably a good thing for him to do.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, I think he's taking this year and almost, I think he's really stepped into his leadership and veteran experience that he has with Team Pinsky.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Just because you lost so many big leaders at that team, our is probably one of the most tenured of that team.
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[SPEAKER_12]: And he's really stepped into a role today and all through this season, you know, he only ran twenty one laps, but he's always more than willing to talk to anybody who asked him any question.
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[SPEAKER_12]: And up until that mechanical issue as well, he was running really well.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He was very, very fast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He looks good all weekend except for his mechanical issue today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: New garden was in a class of a zone today and I have never seen that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen people get screwed by a, uh, pitting at the wrong time, but not twice in one race after coming from the back of the field to the front and then happening again in same insanely bad luck.
16:47
[SPEAKER_12]: Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately, that's what makes the oval racing so great.
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[SPEAKER_12]: And how just how good do these oval cars look?
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[SPEAKER_12]: How good do these indie cars look on an oval?
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[SPEAKER_12]: They just look incredible.
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[SPEAKER_12]: And every, every week, even though we only had a two hundred and something passes at down, thirteen hundred from years past, I still think the product on track is great and it really needs to see.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, and it's a shame to see those stands so empty.
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[SPEAKER_12]: It really is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Believe how empty the stands were today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It is really sad because the oval racing I think is I think some of the ovals are a lot more exciting than some of the road courses they rock and you know, and there was probably their worst oval as far as as far as spectator sport goes and this was fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was, I think the sad part was today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing is it looked like there was one and a half grooves.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They couldn't, you know, kind of daily is remarkable at going up high.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, but everybody else just could go about one and a half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You had to kind of stay on the low side.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That, that used to be at one point when they first went there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was almost a three groove track.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That car running there is completely ruin that race, including the fans, including the fan attendance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It has.
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[SPEAKER_12]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_12]: It's funny.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Bring up NASCAR.
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[SPEAKER_12]: I was a on X today and I was on the on Iowa Speedways Twitter account or X account and not a single post for indie car, not a single post.
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[SPEAKER_12]: And the marketing for this race was just absolutely miserable.
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[SPEAKER_12]: I've had us all comments people who live around the speedway, not a billboard, not a commercial, it's not on radio.
18:35
[SPEAKER_12]: And for a series that is trying to build traction, that's just, it's just unexcusable.
18:41
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that is an excusable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There is no reason that you're not promoting that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And every day and especially, you know, Dave, I think you might have worked on a touch on this a minute ago.
18:50
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought, you know, outside of a nasty, it was kind of not, I mean, I thought this was a good weekend from a clarinet racing.
18:57
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it was nice to see Meyer shank racing back up on Get a podium finish today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I encountered a day there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't have good results, but man was he up there all weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm still, I'm not sure what happened to him at the end there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he may have been caught in the pits as well.
19:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, hats off, hats off to Meyer Sank and Marcus Armstrong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Marcus Armstrong today proved he's a race driver.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's fun that I would expect to be in a better seat in the next couple of years for sure.
19:36
[SPEAKER_12]: Those are good points, and having Meyer Shank in third and seventh here on this race, the second race at Iowa, they're having a great season, you know, throughout.
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[SPEAKER_12]: They've consistently in the top ten, and they've got a great driver lineup.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Marcus Armstrong has looked him in some time on ovals, but today he was really strong.
19:55
[SPEAKER_12]: It's the best I've seen him look on an oval for his any car career, I would say.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Christian Rasmussen, he's a legit oval racer.
20:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
20:06
[SPEAKER_02]: He's worth the right team with that, too.
20:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
20:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Because ECR is an overracing team.
20:14
[SPEAKER_12]: Christian Rasputin is honestly really surprised me on these ovals this year.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He's been so aggressive and that's something you want to see, but he's also been really calculated with his moves.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He doesn't really put himself in position where he's going to ruin a lot of people's day or even himself and team him climb up yesterday and then climb up nine spots today, really impressive stuff, really impressive.
20:38
[SPEAKER_02]: David Malukas had a good day again today.
20:40
[SPEAKER_03]: That was going to say for a while there.
20:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought, boy, it was going to get their first win of the year.
20:44
[SPEAKER_03]: It looked like Malukas might be the class of the field for a while.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, he was caught up in the the bad pit stop.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wrong time.
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[SPEAKER_12]: That's the only thing that is a little bit unfortunate about these short ovals.
20:58
[SPEAKER_12]: If you catch a caution, I mean, your race is pretty much done.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Obviously, we saw with New Garden, but, you know, he is an league of his own.
21:06
[SPEAKER_12]: You got to take that sample pretty small.
21:08
[SPEAKER_12]: But, you know, seeing my Lucas run up in these AJ Foitcars.
21:12
[SPEAKER_12]: I think Santino finished.
21:15
[SPEAKER_12]: uh... in fifteen so now that not a super great day for him but he started in twenty fifth uh... it over all the just little by little this point team is continuing to build the steps and i really hope that they're able to to challenge for some race wins here's the season closes down guys going into the last restart we told the result and producers to be said i have heard skydickson's name all day and he's gonna win this race
21:42
[SPEAKER_03]: All of a sudden he's at the ground with the heck.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every time it's unrivaled.
21:48
[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing you say about Scott Dixon is Scott Dixon is Scott Dixon.
21:53
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
21:54
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the kind.
21:55
[SPEAKER_02]: He's one of a kind.
21:57
[SPEAKER_04]: It's real rare if he's not in the challenging at the finish.
22:01
[SPEAKER_12]: It was honestly crazy because you didn't hear his name all day.
22:05
[SPEAKER_12]: Not all that final restart.
22:07
[SPEAKER_12]: And he's in second place.
22:08
[SPEAKER_12]: The way he does it, you know, he's just so consistent.
22:11
[SPEAKER_12]: And that nine crew is a whole is able to put him in great positions.
22:15
[SPEAKER_12]: And he always takes those positions and runs with them.
22:18
[SPEAKER_12]: And a second place today is great for him coming off a win last weekend, really in great form for Scott Dixon.
22:24
[SPEAKER_12]: And his age for sure is not showing.
22:27
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't know if it ever will.
22:28
[SPEAKER_03]: he took the Rick Mears to the next level is what he did.
22:33
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, that's well said.
22:36
[SPEAKER_02]: And let's say Potto had a really good weekend.
22:40
[SPEAKER_02]: This he did, although his championship hopes are done now.
22:43
[SPEAKER_02]: No, but he it's it's a race for second.
22:46
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
22:46
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, this year, if you can say, I've finished second the championship
22:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody says, well, who won?
22:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Alex Polo.
22:57
[SPEAKER_02]: So second place, pretty darn good.
23:00
[SPEAKER_12]: With the year, Polo is having, I mean, this is a championship for second place.
23:04
[SPEAKER_12]: A arguably has been since he won six in a row to start this season.
23:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Talk about a bad day and ready for a single ad.
23:16
[SPEAKER_02]: A horrible day.
23:18
[SPEAKER_02]: A horrible weekend.
23:20
[SPEAKER_04]: Or a weekend yet.
23:23
[SPEAKER_12]: Finish an eighteenth, twentieth and twenty second today.
23:27
[SPEAKER_12]: That is miserable.
23:28
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, they didn't really have pace all weekend, but if you're a team, your team, if your team is well rooted in this sport as injury is, there's no excuse for finishing that low.
23:41
[SPEAKER_12]: They're just so.
23:43
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, and they used to win at that track.
23:46
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, it really lacks pace on ovals for a while now.
23:50
[SPEAKER_12]: Obviously other than for Indie.
23:52
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked about that for Indie.
23:53
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, except for Indie, but man, I don't other than them crashing out or a few passes.
24:00
[SPEAKER_12]: They were just nowhere all weekend.
24:03
[SPEAKER_12]: It's a shame because they've got a great driver line up.
24:05
[SPEAKER_12]: They really got a feel for Marcus Erickson.
24:07
[SPEAKER_12]: He was having just a stinker of a season in that and dready sea.
24:11
[SPEAKER_12]: It's just not gone well for them at all.
24:14
[SPEAKER_03]: The car of Kirkwood was in the lead there for a little while on strategy, and then he just was left in the death.
24:19
[SPEAKER_03]: You have nothing for anybody.
24:22
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you correct.
24:25
[SPEAKER_12]: I think it was also interesting, you know, even before the race got off, Nolan Seagull, not being cleared to race today.
24:33
[SPEAKER_12]: And, and then, Aaron McLean wasn't able to get anybody in that seat in time.
24:37
[SPEAKER_12]: You had lean as long-quist and other drivers at the track.
24:39
[SPEAKER_12]: I know it was also mentioned that Tony can on could have ran in that car, but
24:43
[SPEAKER_12]: the no running for the.
24:46
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, I think the issue was.
24:49
[SPEAKER_12]: Indie car requires a fifteen minute install and warm up to make sure everything's great with the car in the driver.
24:55
[SPEAKER_12]: And McLaren just wasn't able to squeeze that in and unfortunately no running for the six today.
25:03
[SPEAKER_02]: It would have been great to see T. K. It would.
25:06
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, probably would have been the one they would have gone with just because he's he does he's working with them, you know, in there.
25:13
[SPEAKER_04]: He has a, he has, by the best knowledge of those cars and that set up for last minute filling.
25:24
[SPEAKER_12]: And having loongard, you know, he's ended up in six cars all the way up from twenty second.
25:29
[SPEAKER_12]: I feel like my clearance really finding their stride.
25:32
[SPEAKER_12]: Obviously had paddle when yesterday.
25:34
[SPEAKER_12]: Recently, they've looked really, really good.
25:36
[SPEAKER_12]: Pretty much everywhere, the series goes.
25:38
[SPEAKER_12]: It's just an upward trend for this team and having Tony Cannot and leadership and and other people leading the charges.
25:45
[SPEAKER_12]: It's great to see them start to get super competitive here and maybe be another challenger to the, uh, ganassee and Penske cars.
25:51
[SPEAKER_12]: I wouldn't say they're quite in that tier yet.
25:53
[SPEAKER_04]: uh... that quite a man they are there definitely on the charge i'd like to see i mean i like the small racing team so having good days but when you're talking about bambling your all year for championships and everything i'd like for it to be more than just gonna see in pensky and be not you know and i don't and sometimes and ready that they're having a bad year but so i think it'd be nice for error McLaren i think it would be good for them to become like that for
26:25
[SPEAKER_03]: And Elijah and I are going to talk about this later in the week.
26:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, at any time we do this, you're welcome to join us.
26:31
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to talk about the greatest seasons in indie car history because we need to start having that conversation.
26:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, AJ Point one ten of thirteen and nineteen sixty four, including the five hundred that'll probably never be topped, but my one question as we go is will Alex Polo get to double figures this year.
26:55
[SPEAKER_12]: And then we go to Portland and then we've got Milwaukee Mile and then we end up in Nashville.
27:01
[SPEAKER_12]: I'd say all three of those road and street courses need be the favorite.
27:05
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
27:06
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, he's won.
27:08
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm pretty sure he's won Throna, Lavena Sake and Portland, multiple times.
27:13
[SPEAKER_12]: So I wouldn't be surprised if he won the next three.
27:16
[SPEAKER_12]: Obviously in Dreddy's been really, really strong on street courses.
27:19
[SPEAKER_12]: So he's going to have to deal with Kyle Kirkwood as well.
27:22
[SPEAKER_12]: But I don't think I think I would be more talk to Alex Flood doesn't get to double digit wins.
27:29
[SPEAKER_12]: Wow.
27:30
[SPEAKER_04]: I really think so too.
27:31
[SPEAKER_04]: And especially now that he's he and
27:35
[SPEAKER_04]: his crew have found the secret to success on ovals.
27:40
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think he gets one more.
27:41
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm going to predict.
27:42
[SPEAKER_03]: One more.
27:43
[SPEAKER_03]: One of those three.
27:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna go with you on that one, Greg.
27:50
[SPEAKER_02]: He is so dominant, but yet he doesn't have to be my gosh.
27:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, that's true.
27:56
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't, you know, he's driving, well, you mentioned it.
28:00
[SPEAKER_02]: He's so darn smart.
28:02
[SPEAKER_02]: He stays out of trouble.
28:03
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a master at staying away from trouble.
28:06
[SPEAKER_02]: But this is a great field.
28:08
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a great field.
28:10
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's gonna be hard to win three more of the five.
28:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
28:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you.
28:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And especially, I was great to see Potto get a win.
28:20
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the whole series.
28:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it does.
28:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody loves Potto.
28:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they do.
28:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I would love to see.
28:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I would love to see my Lucas get a win.
28:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he needs one.
28:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Any AJ for it when would be huge?
28:37
[SPEAKER_02]: It would.
28:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
28:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
28:39
[SPEAKER_04]: Chindicard, we're didn't.
28:40
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm still wish that instead of five races, they had left that they still, they had like,
28:45
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, eight to ten more race.
28:47
[SPEAKER_03]: I know we we talked about that this week too.
28:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Michelle that Indie car really needs more races that needs more ovals that needs more.
28:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Races in particular before the Indie five hundred.
29:00
[SPEAKER_12]: And I get they don't want to run in the football season with Fox, but.
29:04
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, all the more remarks you could be running races.
29:08
[SPEAKER_12]: Exactly.
29:09
[SPEAKER_12]: And the schedule was an absolute mess this year.
29:11
[SPEAKER_12]: I've fans had a wait.
29:12
[SPEAKER_12]: two three week gaps in the beginning of the season.
29:15
[SPEAKER_12]: It was just miserable miserable.
29:16
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, if you're going to do that, just start an April.
29:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, guys, appreciate it as always.
29:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's a blast.
29:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoy this and.
29:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was it was just a fun race to watch.
29:30
[SPEAKER_03]: Another great race.
29:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's I think they're batten a thousand this year.
29:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, a minus thermal.
29:36
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, except for there.
29:37
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, I think you was made in the one that made a comment yesterday.
29:41
[SPEAKER_04]: I do think Foxes coverage is getting a little bit better because they're doing a better job or at least they did this weekend of showing time.
29:47
[SPEAKER_04]: I was showing positive.
29:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, they did a great job this weekend.
29:53
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad you mentioned that, Michelle.
29:55
[SPEAKER_03]: They did a fabulous job keeping us in touch of what was important on the track.
30:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Something ABC never did.
30:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you got to feel, look at it.
30:05
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just way Foxes are rookie.
30:07
[SPEAKER_02]: This is their rookie season also.
30:11
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
30:12
[SPEAKER_12]: And I think obviously, you know, they've done NASCAR in the past.
30:16
[SPEAKER_12]: So I honestly think bread and bread and butter is these ovals.
30:21
[SPEAKER_12]: I bet the production team is just used to it.
30:23
[SPEAKER_12]: The people behind the scenes know what to do.
30:25
[SPEAKER_12]: And, you know, the officiating crew, they had a few moments of some wrong mishaps, but when does that not happen this week?
30:34
[SPEAKER_12]: But overall, it's a great package that they're bringing to these ovals specifically.
30:38
[SPEAKER_03]: By far Fox's best performance, besides Hindi this year.
30:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry about a couple of technical difficulties there, but that was a lot of fun.
30:50
[SPEAKER_03]: Really love our indie car crew and look forward to talking with them after every single race.
30:55
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31:03
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31:08
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31:14
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