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IndyCar: Mid-Ohio Preview with Elijah Poe (+Qualifying Recap; Podcast No. 316.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and sixteen point one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Our preview of the indie car race at Middohio with Elijah Poe with a recap of Saturdays qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the Central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, Indie Car fans to the Central Indian Sports Report and our Mid-O-Hio preview and qualifying recap with Elijah Poe.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thanks for having me once again.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Good to see that Indie Car series racing at Mid-O-Hio and Mr. and Edward Wolmsett, if I've said it many times this year, Alex Polo taking pull position.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But other than
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, pretty wild day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let me go through the starting grid for Sundays.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One o'clock race at middle higher.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The race can be seen on Fox television.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And as Elijah mentioned, Alex below starting on pole next to Christian Lune Guard on the outside of row one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Row two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll need to talk about in Death Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Kim F. Kim Simpson and Nolan Seagull.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: row three Colton heard it and Louie Foster again another one will need to go into Deppwin with with Louie Foster suddenly becoming a qualifying Master I guess just missing the fast six is Kyle Kirkwood he'll start from row four that'll be interesting to watch next to Marcus Armstrong.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Row five has got Dixon and Christian Rasmussen who
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  [SPEAKER_01]: had to be moved, had to be moved back after qualifying for failing inspection.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Row six is Marcus Erickson, an Alexander Rossi, Row seven, Connor Daily, and David Malukas, Row eight, Paddo Award, and Felix Rosenquist, second and third in the state, no third and fourth in the Indian car standings.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Row nine, and here we go, gonna be the number one topic of this when Elijah
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Seventeen the Santino for Ruchi, Eighteenth and the Fastest Pinsky Joseph New Garden.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Woof!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Rotten, Stingray Rob and Graham Ray Hall, Row eleven, Scott McLaughlin and Will Power.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Woof!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Row twelve, Devd and Defran Tesco and Calamilot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Row thirteen Jacob Abel and Rina's V.K.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And starting last even though he looked really fast yesterday, is Robert Schwartzman.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got to start Elijah with Alex Pelosi night career pole.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hard to believe it's only been nine since he has a seventeen career wins and six this year already.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We got to start there and it was a pretty dominant.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No one even was close.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, almost two tenths on Christian loongard and that was after his first flying lap.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He went around for another flying lap and pulled two tenths on him on his own personal best time.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's just
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So consistent, so fast, we're witnessing some of the best ending car racing the series has seen in its whole existence.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Alex blows just on another level and pretty much everybody who's watching can see that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Tomorrow you'd be a fool to take the field against him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying he's winning the race for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Things happen in ending car racing, but he was so much better than everybody else today that you'd be a fool not to take him against the field tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he was.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I saw a stat from Nathan Brown, um, hello with Chip Ganesi racing has never finished off the podium.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's had a third place, second place, first place, and a second.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And as yet to finish off the podium at Middohio in the Chip Ganesi racing car, and it's hard to say he's not going to be up there tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ben, she's going to see what he can do and chasing him will be Christian alone guard, of course.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: arrow McLaren's number two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about arrow McLaren's number one here in a minute, but a great day for Christian Lingard.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, really good results.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Good to see him back in pace.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of been a little bit of an afterthought here these last couple weekends after having a really good start to the season, but seeing him back up in second, there'd be interesting to see how he can push below to hear tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then row two Elijah, of course you and I had our midseason
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  [SPEAKER_01]: report where we graded every driver, every team, the broadcast, the series as a whole.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We graded everything that was that I could think of to grade at the halfway point of the indie car season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And two of the toughest criticisms we had were with Kiffin Simpson and Nolan Siegel because they were number three on their teams by so far.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Both of them seem like pretty good young talents who hadn't really proven it yet and here they are.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: both starting on road to maybe they heard us.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, maybe so they both had just great qualifying for both of them today.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's no one's equals highest starting position into a race and I'll be super interested to see how they deal with being upfront.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, they've been up front a couple of times during a race, but it's very different if they're going to be able to hold their own with
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Colton heard a cow Kirkwood and a lot of other people chasing behind him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of them chasing behind him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Colton heard that we need to talk about a little.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course he was just on pull it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He tried.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Look like the car to beat just a couple of weeks ago and but he could really use a win and he's been he's in pretty good position.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, starting from fifth, ran well really all week.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it feels like Crollton's been climbing up this ladder where he's itching towards a win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The closer we get and the further the season runs along.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So he should have a great position tomorrow to compete for a win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it would be, it would be shocked if he's not on the podium tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we talked about RLL always being good at middle high.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we kind of expected it to be maybe Graham Ray Hall.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But Louie Foster, the second week in a row,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: great qualifying performance.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, super, super great.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And he's got an extra set of new sticker red tires tomorrow as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So the opinion on how our LL plays the strategy right?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He could really be contending for a top three finish tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And he's gaps the next teammate closest to him is Ray Hall down in twenty.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's pretty substantial.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's really been in good form these last two weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully he can just string together a consistent race.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Kyle Kirkwood missed the fast six.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a strike a poor strategy call, not that he wasn't one of the fast six.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I expect to see Kyle Kirkwood coming from row four tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he said on the broadcast, uh, got caught up a little bit in one of the faster corners and just lost a few tents and and in the call where the competition is so stiff, uh, you know, a few tents is all you need to not even be near the window you need to be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you were going to say, I'm going to take somebody other than Alex Polot, Amaro.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Kyle Kirkwood starting from the seventh position might be your guy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Kirkwood and I looked to hurt as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Just those and dreaded global, they usually have really consistent strategies in being at middle high.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they've obviously ran well in the past there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If they're going to fight below, they definitely have a perfect race because it's going to be tough.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A pill battle for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now let's move our way down to row seven.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: where a man named Connor Daily qualified ahead of David Malukas, Pato Award, Felix Rosenquist, Santino Farrucci, and all three Pinsky's, and has looked really good all weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He did, and he was really looking to transfer to the fast twelve there, but just barely missed out out of group one, just really good running for him in the Hunkos-Hollinger team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Stingray Rob is,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: down in nineteen starting in thirteen can send hopefully have some good points for conradalia and uh... get some momentum on these road and street courses form yeah daily in thirteenth and stingy robin seventeen that's a really good day for who goes home and you're hopefully those cars go forward tomorrow that's a team that's kind of been on the up and down depending on what circuit there at so good point for the result for them is big any day that's right row eight to good one we got uh... as i mentioned pattoe ward and third place in the standings
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Felix Rosenquiss in fourth place in the standings there in row eight, of course Rosenquiss had a frustrating weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the former teammates line it up right beside each other.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That'll be a fun way fun one to watch and both have incredible pace around middle high.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, just missed out on advancing and qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Watching them start from the middle of the pack will be great to see just because, you know, both of those are so so incredibly skilled with their race craft and that'll definitely be interesting to see how they can play their strategy.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those are two cars I would expect to see maybe making their way forward, particularly patio.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I always love when
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Great race car drivers are mid pack or behind and see and what they can do going through the field.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this is actually a road course where it's doable.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it is.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It would be interesting to see how they play the strategy tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's going to be another hot day out there like it was for qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're said to track Tim's for about a hundred twenty five degrees.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's a that's a scorcher.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then we get to road nine and you've got Joseph new garden.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then row eleven is all pensky Elijah what in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we said it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the fast couple weeks now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a horrible, horrible week for pensky.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We said there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to make the men eventually, but it doesn't look like they are anytime soon.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And let's maybe two weeks to the ovals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that's really, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But for road and street courses, it's just been miserable and
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, Joseph after qualifying, I think they tried to talk to him the past three, four weeks hasn't said a word on TV.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm a Joseph New Garden fan, but, you know, being arguably the best driver at Pinsky, you know, it's time to, it's time to face the criticism just because this season has been miserable beyond belief.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, you should do more than face the criticism.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You should go out there and talk about it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think we haven't been good enough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, what life will go on, we'll get better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: talk about it like that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And it makes the series look a little, a little bad because, you know, he is one of their, one of their three drivers, him, Patto and Alex Polo, that they really advertise this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the face.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those three have become the face of the series for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And just not talking to media and stuff like that is just a brutal look.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Because fans know he's one of the best, but it's definitely will be interesting to see how they play their strategy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what their possible ceiling is for tomorrow, starting all the way down in eighteen, then in row eleven for power and McLaughlin.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just just a really bad season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the change in personnel midway through the season has hurt them even more than
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of people expected.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But again, Pinsky will bounce back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like Pinsky hasn't been through this before in other ways.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This might be the worst complete season he's had.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's the worst season statistically since the the two thousand seasons.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: So twenty five years.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I guess that every twenty five years have a stinker of a season is not too bad, but man, it really feels like it's under a magnifying glass this year.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, and they need to start acting like other teams and say, hey, look,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We just got to find answers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll find them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're the sport.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can talk to the media however you want to.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you need to at least be out there talking to them.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're right about that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate your time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we of course will recap the race tomorrow and talking to Elijah right after the race.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for your time Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Always appreciate it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thanks for having me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Always a blast.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to Elijah for sharing his time with the Central Indian Sports Report listeners.
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