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IndyCar: Laguna Seca Recap + Race Reaction with Elijah Poe, Dave Chanley & Michelle Garmon (Podcast 338.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_05]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and thirty eight point one My recap and Elijah Pose Dave Chandley and Michelle Garman's reaction to the Indie car race at Laguna Sica on Sunday Race number fifteen in the eighteen race season But before we get to all of that let me tell you our plan going forward with Indie car
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  [SPEAKER_05]: We preview every race after qualifying, then recap and react at each and every race on the schedule with Elijah Pope.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And I'll then like today, special guests.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And midweek every single week during the season, we have Elijah Poe's indie car report.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Please join us for that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mangalves.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Welcome, Indie Car fans to the central Indiana Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Coming up in just a moment, we have Elijah Pose, Dave Chainley, and Michelle Garman's reaction to another Alex Polo victory Sunday at Laguna Saker.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But before we get to that, here's our rapid recap.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Susie, we said this later on the reaction portion of this podcast, but the fact that Alex blows one eight of the first fifteen races this season is incredible unto itself, but how great the competition has been this year unlike any time I've ever seen an indie car history and he's still finding a way to be the dominant car out there unbelievable performance again today two late yellow flags put pillows
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  [SPEAKER_05]: lead that he had all day in jeopardy.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Instead, he just drove away from the field, both times.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: One by more than four seconds, beating Christian Lunar Guard to the line.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Again, race, win number eight.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: He is now tied with Aluncer Junior's nineteen ninety-four.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Michael Andretty's nineteen ninety-one, Tony Bettenhausen's nineteen fifty-one.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: For fourth most wins all time, one win away from Aloncer seniors nine wins in nineteen seventy.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Mario and Dreddy's nine wins in nineteen sixty nine and two wins away from AJ for its all time record of ten wins in nineteen sixty four.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: What a year from Alex Polo.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome weekend, awesome year, overall, but yeah, today was something else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was super fun to be here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite tracks for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Gonna be happy right now.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: How are you able to re-strategy as under those late yellows?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it was not easy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like we had to push, we had to try and be ready for those yellows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We knew that we were not on the best conditions on Taurus, especially the twenty six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was waiting for him to come back at the end, but yeah, luckily we had enough face to open his mug up and get the win.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: That was Fox's Georgia Hinabari on the interview.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: What a tremendous job Fox did today on its coverage.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: We won't talk about the pre-race being pre-empted by a women's European soccer post game show.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Maddening.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Kind of shows you how seriously they take it.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, two weeks from now, below will look for his ninth win at Portland.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: The final two races are on Oval's at Milwaukee.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: America's oldest oval racetrack and at Nashville to conclude the season.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: As I said earlier, Christian Ludengard finished second.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: His fifth podium finish of the year, but his first since middle high, when he had a season high.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Second, won't be long before we see that day in Victory Lane.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Colton heard a finished third at a track he's won twice.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Paddo Award was fourth, but pretty much saw his championship aspirations.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Go down the drain.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Scott Dixon finished fifth after starting nineteenth.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Calamilot finished sixth after starting twenty-fourth.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Willpower was seventh the top Pinsky finisher.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Marcus Armstrong eighth, Christian Rasmussen ninth.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Scott McLaughlin was tenth and Joseph New Garden eleven.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Graham Ray Hall was twelve followed by David Malukus, Connor Daily finished fourteenth moving up nine spots.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Alexander Rossy finished fifteen's moving up seven spots on the day.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Kyle Kirkwood after looking like he might contend with, pillow, for the championship just a couple of weeks ago.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: As fallen out of contention, he finished sixteenth, rookie Louis Foster finished seventeenth, but he was up in the top ten most of the day.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Nolan Seagull finished eighteenth, he was the only driver to lead any laps besides below.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: He led eleven.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Stingray Rob was nineteen.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: He moved up seven spots.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Devlin D. Francesco was twenty of he moved up seven spots.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Robert Schwartzman was twenty first.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Santino for Rigi had a late wreck with finished twenty second.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Rina's VK was twenty-third.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Felix Rosenquist and the great full-dead tide I car was twenty-fourth.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Marcus Erickson finished twenty-fifth and
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  [SPEAKER_05]: We're going to talk about this coming up in the post race, just an awful job by IndyCar, not getting a yellow out after Ericsson spun and really put him in jeopardy.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Again, that's coming up with Elijah Dave and Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Louisville's Jacob Abel finished twenty-sixth and Kiffin Simpson finished last.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: below the final fifty eight laps of the race.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: There were five costumes for a total of eleven laps.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: On the first lap, Kiffin Simpson made a bad decision.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Let's just say that and caused a collision with himself and Felix Rosenquist.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: A lap eleven.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It was Jacob Abel on a solo accident.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Look like you might have had a mechanical issue going into turn two.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Reena's VK and Kyle Kirkwood had contact on lap twenty-six, and incident the really cost VK a potential really good finish.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Then came Eric's in spin on lap seventy-eight, which we're going to talk about coming up, and then Santino for Ruchi did, Santino for Ruchi things, and had an accident on lap eighty-five with ten laps to go that caused the final yellow again.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Alex Blow pulled away from runner-up Christian Lungard with what seemed like very little effort.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It is his year.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Or Elijah Poe, Dave, Chandley, and Michelle Garman's reaction to Laguna Saker.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Please stay tuned for Elijah Poe, Dave, Chandley, and Michelle Garman's reaction to another Alex Blow victory at Laguna Saker.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: you're listening to the central Indiana sports report with your host, Craig Menjows.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And I am joined now by Elijah Poe, Dave Chandley and Michelle Garmin on the central Indiana sports report to talk about another really good race, although completely dominated by Alex Falohu.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I assume that most of this reaction is just gonna be an ode to Alex, right, guys?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I really don't want to need to say much about him.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm just thinking this is all race for second.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Think, think the season would be if all we had this year was racist for second.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Those are good races.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It's odd because it's been a really great season to have one guy out in front so much in the standings.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It would seem like it would be a boring season, but race the race.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: They've all been pretty good all though again.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: As Elijah and I said in our pre-race yesterday, Elijah, no matter what the strategy was, Alex below was the favorite.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's, that's spot on.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: No matter how much Fox was calling strategy into question, even though there was a couple of restarts late, and in my mind, and in everybody else's mind, I think.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: There was no doubt that that pedo Alex Polo was gonna, was gonna win that race.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You look at one of his restarts, one of the first cautions, he was able to pull a two-second gap just off of the restart alone.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just don't know how he does it around Laguna Saka.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's just so dominant around there and what a weekend for him, pretty much perfect.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's why he is, he's not only a standing driver and having a dominant season, I mean, he's having that dominant season in part because it's his whole crew.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that whole team is just on their eight plus games this season.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I would agree.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It is.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It's just a monster season.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It's beyond when you use this scratch your head and say, is he really that good?
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: But I agree, Michelle, they all are that good.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_04]: That is just a, it's the perfect storm of a race team slash driver.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They Mexico flawlessly on the pit stops when they need to other than the two wobbles, the two little driving mistakes that Polo made on that
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Rotorace, the addiction ended up planning.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the season has been really, really good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You don't see that team or pillow making those kind of mistakes on any type of regular basis.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's talk about the record ten wins.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: If I did it in when he did it in sixty four and against much less tough competition every week, you never know who it's going to be in twenty twenty five in Dcar.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Back then, there are two or three drivers you had to beat for AJ Foit.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Not taking anything away from AJ Foit, it's nineteen sixty four.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But what Alex Polo is doing against the loaded field, and basically what our identical cars, not exactly, but basically identical cars is just extraordinary.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think if he gets to nine wins by the time the season's over, you're obviously pushing ten is going to be tough with three races left.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He has to win two races out of those three.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But I think if he gets to nine, you could make a really, really solid argument that this is the best season we've seen in Indie Carr.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Having nine wins winning the five hundred being so dominant every single weekend, I'm think his average finish has to be
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  [SPEAKER_03]: has to be above three.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's got to be in one to three region.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's just absolutely dominant in this day and age of any car, where everybody is so talented.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This field's got Colton Hurda, Paddo Award, Joseph New Garden, Will Power.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I can go on and on.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: God, Dick's for, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I can go on and on and for flow to be having such a dominant season.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's truly remarkable.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Did you not, did you think that, you know, I think the only, I seen below the biggest competition that your code come from this teammate,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If they could just qualify that car better.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the addiction has, it does what he does.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to do the strategy, the different type of strategy races, which he is really good at.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But it's hard to win when you have some button when your teammate is qualifying good and it's so good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's unfortunate.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know Dickson has gone on record this year and saying the heavier hybrid doesn't really fit his qualifying pace.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And now he likes to drive the car.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But regardless, he's still able to string these results together.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think for Dickson, it'll be interesting to see how he's able to learn off of this first full year with the hybrid and take that into twenty twenty six.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, really amazing season by Dickson, especially when you talk about the qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It's just, during our text, um, Jane today,
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Just next level, it's just what they've done.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: You talk about that, the tin team with, uh, pillow and Frank Keedy and Juan Pablo Montoya and all the great drivers.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: Dickson's been there the entire time, almost, uh, it's pretty incredible what they've done.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: And he's just remade strategy situations that
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_05]: I still don't know how to explain and no one else has been able to replicate.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_05]: When he's in nineteen's place, you assume he's gonna end up at the front.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_04]: Andy does and sometimes he scratched your head as to how and I was watching.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: I was counting the laps and I thought on that next to last tent.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_04]: He had to get close to thirty laps and he did without losing position.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how he does it, but he's a master at it.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's just Dixon being Dixon.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_04]: The one thing we saw today was he should have had a fourth place finish and he made a rare mistake which putting back to fifth.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that was a pretty unfortunate mistake from Dakeson there at the end, but it's still a stellar result from starting all the way back in the final couple of rows there.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Birmingham to be able to climb up.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's just truly Scott Dakeson.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think his experience has really put
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: an experience mentality through chipping nasty racing as a whole because he's proven he can win from anywhere and I think that team knows with him in and below they can just about do anything they want to.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: I would like to know how much strategy, how much knowledge, how much below,
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  [SPEAKER_04]: from Dixon through the week.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: You know, when you've got it, when you're as good as pillow and you've got a teammate like Dixon, I mean, you've got the guy to go to and say, help me out here.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I think that would be, that's just part of that team.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Dixon is really part of Pelosi team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of that too just goes to the man at the top.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Chip can ask he just, he's just fantastic.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And when you look back, I can only think as maybe
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: one year maybe one and a half seasons.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna ask he hasn't been one of the top two teams.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that was an engine problem.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: That wasn't even a team problem.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's been it's been a maculate pretty much from the late nineties for for a galaxy.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, been pretty much a maculate since the days of one Pablo Montoya and Jimmy Vassar.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's amazing what that team does and that
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: how consistent they are.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I want to give a shout out again to Errol McLaren.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're starting to really develop and they could be a team to really deal with next year because they're starting to put some really strong performances together.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, guys, we need to talk about Christian Loan Guard and is he going to be one of the greats.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: Same today with Marcus Armstrong and Christian Rasmussen, both being in the top ten.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: We got some really good young drivers to challenge below in a ward.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's coming there young.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_04]: They are.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_04]: They're good.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_04]: And they're with good teams.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_04]: One guard is just at the start of next year.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_04]: Just know he is going to be a factor and arrow is going to be a factor.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I think pattoe today, pattoe with a fourth place finish and you have to say, wow, that's disappointing because he needed to win or finish second.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: But before any race starts, if you say, hey, dude, you're going to finish fourth.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty darn good.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Christian Lungard today, not the not the two my own horn as well, but he was my dark horse for yesterday's pin and below is your picked a win.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: But seeing Lungard really challenged Polo and I thought his move on her to that final corner was so, so skillful.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Lungard has been a driver in this series that has had the skill and I think that Arama Clarenceeam has really put the confidence behind him with a really strong car and he's looked absolutely great at some points this year.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he's had those little slip ups, but every driver does, but like Michelle and Dave said, I think next year, be on the lookout for Lungard and that Arama Clarenceeam is a whole because they're gonna be really, really strong.
• 16:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: what they did was go out and hire a couple of really good young drivers to help out that organization.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and even Nolan Seagull led eleven lapsed in and gave some good defensive moves on below there as a little surprised to see Seagull be so aggressive on some older tires, but he looks pretty strong up there for a little bit.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know he didn't finish the best, but regardless, he was up at the front in good camera time.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: That was, hats off to Calamilot.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, this is a, this is a team that for all intents and purposes does not have what everybody else has and and I lot, I, I think I lot just decided, you know what, I'm beside Dixon here.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm way back to the start.
• 17:38
  [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe we just ought to follow his strategy.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_04]: Whatever he does, let's just follow Dixon.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: And it's almost what they need.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is following.
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, he, I want his really, he's another really good driver that most people have not really heard of that they don't follow in the car a lot.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's really getting better each race.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a shame he wasn't given a lot of opportunities just when he first started out his indie car career because I think he just need a team that is going to give him that confidence and stick with them for a full season and you're seeing that happen, play out with Prima and he he keeps on getting these better.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: He keeps on getting better and better each week and today in P six, that is an absolute massive result for for like David said for a team that just straight up doesn't have as much funding as the others.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: going to say, at least Team Penske didn't, at least their drivers didn't crash out today.
• 18:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's get to the Team Penske here in a second.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_05]: But I want to finish up here on the I-Lot thing.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yesterday, Elijah, we said his car had the pace.
• 18:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: Something went wrong in qualifying, and I wasn't sure.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_05]: But you saw it times he was in the low one-tins, and during practice was clearly one of the best cars there.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_05]: And once he got to the front, he proved it.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_05]: He was not out of his depth at all.
• 18:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, just fantastic.
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: And like I said, I just think you really need a team to fill that confidence and and give him a seat for the full year and starting down in twenty four climbing his way up to six is a fantastic result.
• 19:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: And they were like David said he did pretty much mirror Scott Dixon, but hey, when you have a six place result in your team Prima and your first year in any car, you will take it.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_05]: Late in the race, the Fox booth pointed out that Pinsky's finish was
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: seventh, tenth, and a fifth, which for Pinsky this year is pretty good, but Pinsky is not here to finish three guys in the top eleven.
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_05]: That is not their goal.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_04]: No, but they, but they have the car all in one piece.
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_04]: They don't have crash cars today.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't be interested to see what happened to New Garden as well.
• 19:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like he might have gotten the bad luck of a caution because he was running up in fourth and fifth all pretty much all day.
• 19:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Ending down in the eleventh is unfortunate for him, but like David and Michelle said, you know, they are they are going to the next next race with both cars intact.
• 20:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: And as much as you don't want to be down in the seventh to eleven range, I'm sure it's points will take because there's been weekends where they don't have anything.
• 20:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: And they really had nothing for the top cars this week, even though they have great drivers.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's just been an massive an organization this year.
• 20:27
  [SPEAKER_05]: Again, they'll break boot and they'll be great next year.
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: There's no doubt about it.
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: You know, they will.
• 20:31
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think I think the F of the day.
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to throw it out there.
• 20:36
  [SPEAKER_04]: The F of the day was the failure to quickly throw the caution on Erickson.
• 20:43
  [SPEAKER_04]: My hats off to the announcers for blasting Indicar with the decision not to throw it soon because that was dangerous.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: Look, Indicar and Fox are partners, but it was so obvious they had to.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_05]: It was so bad.
• 20:58
  [SPEAKER_05]: Not only was it dangerous,
• 21:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: very, very dangerous.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_05]: And we said that from the very beginning, he's on the middle of the course where you can't see it.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: What are they doing?
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: Not only that, but why wouldn't they want to throw a yellow with eighteen laps to go and bunch the field?
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: Again, I don't want it to be NASCAR.
• 21:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: I don't want them to create the competition.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_05]: That's not what I'm looking for.
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_05]: But if there's an excuse to throw a yellow, throw a freaking yellow.
• 21:25
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: And that one was beyond that was beyond that was needed.
• 21:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and for for listeners, Ericson was stuck up going up towards that climb towards the corkscrew.
• 21:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so drivers were coming into that really, really hot and luckily the racing line is on that left side and Ericson was stuck on that right side, but it's a really bush league from indie car for him to be sitting there for
• 21:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: what felt like over thirty seconds and a really dangerous uh... it just makes any card look like a series that doesn't have their crap together because the yellow should have flown within four or five seconds of that that happening in the second half of the day on the course it had it has to fly a greatest so dangerous so dangerous and you don't want any card to be looking like there are series the where
• 22:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: They don't know that there's caution on the track, but that is so late.
• 22:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: It makes the series look like a joke.
• 22:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like you just cannot be doing that and expect people to watch and see consistency because that's just disgusting.
• 22:26
  [SPEAKER_05]: Michelle, it didn't just feel, it didn't just feel like thirty seconds.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: It felt like thirty seconds after everyone in our tech group was saying, why is there no yellow and towns in and
• 22:39
  [SPEAKER_05]: He changed his clothes and why is there no yellow and it was incompetence, Michelle.
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
• 22:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Basically, the Fox crew pretty much said the same thing.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I got it, giving him a few minutes to see if he could get bit turned, but there was going to be no gap with the way he was positioned.
• 22:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Even if he had been restarted, there was really no safe way for him to come out there without
• 23:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: a full course house.
• 23:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
• 23:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Indy Car can see that data as well.
• 23:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: They should be able to see that Eric's an engine was not up and running.
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: They should have flown that immediately because that data is sitting right in front of their face.
• 23:21
  [SPEAKER_04]: I should have been a fortunate fortunate that he didn't get T-bone.
• 23:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: Just fortunate that there wasn't a mass injury or a serious injury in that situation.
• 23:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: And it made for some really good racing at the end of the race that you got a yellow and it didn't matter at the front because it's below just ran away from everybody every chance he got.
• 23:42
  [SPEAKER_05]: But through the field, it made for a lot of great racing and a memorable race.
• 23:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: It did.
• 23:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, and I want to give a shout out to two Fox for their race, their actual race broadcast.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's been really good.
• 23:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're getting better every week and they're really getting better at
• 24:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: you know, catching the passes and then getting you the different angles of the crashes.
• 24:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was really impressed today when they were talking and they had to cut away car on and you had that was a, it was that great.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a great pass.
• 24:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they immediately cut away from that to get to the bus and then went full screen with it.
• 24:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then talked later after they were done with that to go back to talking about what they were talking about the fuel stuff with the cutaway car and kudos
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: to them because I've seen them before and some other broadcasts like back sometimes when that's car they didn't always cut away like that I I just think they're getting better at their indie car coverage every week.
• 24:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: We have a really good producer.
• 24:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: This might be more of a personal question for you guys, but do you guys like the graphics that they show, like the leaderboard graphics, how things work personally?
• 25:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just think it looks a little messy.
• 25:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like there's something on the screen all the time.
• 25:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: I wish it was a little bit more streamlined, because I feel like they've got a thousand different graphics they show up and there's not a lot of consistency.
• 25:13
  [SPEAKER_05]: The more information you can give us the better, I think.
• 25:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: I think it's okay.
• 25:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: I really like when they do the cutaway.
• 25:21
  [SPEAKER_04]: I like that when they really do the cutaway and show the car and how it's fuel of the aerodynamic sand.
• 25:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: When they do things like that, I'm like, that is, it's fascinating to me.
• 25:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think this sport needed it as well.
• 25:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like scenographics.
• 25:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like kind of knowing what drivers on what set of tires.
• 25:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I really like knowing how much pushed the pass of the left especially the race goes on because then it
• 25:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it lets you really kind of look out for which drivers and where they're tied, who you know, where's the interesting racing going to be.
• 25:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: So I think the tire situation is interesting because every race on a non-over race is all right.
• 26:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: Is this race going to be a red tire race or a block tire race?
• 26:07
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't think they totally know, but within a few laps, everybody knows, okay, this is our strategy.
• 26:16
  [SPEAKER_04]: This is what's going to be the tire for today.
• 26:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you know what, I will say this, pillow has made every tire work.
• 26:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does.
• 26:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does.
• 26:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does.
• 26:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does.
• 26:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does.
• 26:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does not lose it.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody else also.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: He goes to heart.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's the only one out there on heart.
• 26:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: He does not lose time.
• 26:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he does not lose time.
• 26:29
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• 26:30
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• 26:31
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• 26:32
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• 26:35
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• 26:36
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• 26:37
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• 26:37
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• 26:38
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• 26:38
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• 26:39
  [SPEAKER_05]: If he does not lose time.
• 26:40
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• 26:41
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• 26:41
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• 26:42
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• 26:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: If he does not lose time.
• 26:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: If he does not lose time.
• 26:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: If he does not lose time.
• 26:49
  [SPEAKER_05]: If he does not lose time.
• 26:50
  [SPEAKER_05]: If he does not
• 26:52
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• 26:54
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• 27:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's like, fifteen seconds.
• 27:19
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• 27:21
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• 27:24
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