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IndyCar: Milwaukee Preview with Elijah Poe (Podcast 2.6.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the Indicar Report with Elijah Poe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today we recap Saturday's qualifying and preview Sunday's race at the Milwaukee Mile.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And here's your host, Greg Mingalt and co-host, Elijah Poe.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Indicar fans to the Central Indian Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm here with our Indicar Guy Elijah Poe and Elijah, your initial thoughts on being back at Milwaukee.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's great to see any car back in Milwaukee.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you get this short oval going and Indie car we said it all year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just look great on these ovals and especially watching qualifying today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think myself and Indie car fans can finally finally accept that Alex Polo has figured out ovals because oh my goodness, what a performance by him today in qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a bit of a surprise that he won the poll, but nothing he's doing anymore is a surprise Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He's just the best there is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For me, it's so shocking that he got that poll by, you know, seven tenths of a mile an hour is a map.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a very significant gap to second place and you know, David Lucas had a very quick car and we saw some lap times.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: come in, but when he hit that lap time, I think he was in the one sixty three's one sixty four's.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's just incredible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the first one to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, he's the last driver rolling off too for qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And a who else by Alex, blow in the year he's having and the records he is chasing, it's incredible.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Elijah, I'm going to go through the qualifying results and the starting grid for Sunday's race and feel free to comment at any time.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And like you said, Alex, below takes the poll, one sixty two point nine seven one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just absolutely huge.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We saw some pace out of all these drivers today, but we didn't see that pace.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Literally until the very final run when Alex Polo ran.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think his first lap was in that one sixty three.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe low one sixty four.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a one sixty three point nine, maybe.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But it was just so high.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it was the first and in the one sixty three, I think all day just to see him come out and perform on an oval should be should be pretty scary for the rest of the indie car paddock.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think now you have to put him as the favorite on the race.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You probably come in thinking the favorite is Pat O Cookwood.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those guys have been the the guys on the ovals all year, but this certainly puts Polo as the favorite going in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no doubt.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's obviously proven himself a winner on these ovals.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously having won a short oval earlier in the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You walk these a little bit different where, you know, that banking on the track is very, very minimal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll be interested to see how he's able to run that race tomorrow because we always see a lot of passes that Milwaukee.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's really going to have to hold his own.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Two other cars were in the one sixty-two range on the outside of row one will be David Malukas, a boy racing and again great result.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He is making it known that he's available.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that is for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He was on pull for the entire time until Polo ran that final run.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's important from the Lucas to get this result because as much as we can say, he's a lock for that number twelve seed at Penske.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He really doesn't have any results that would make him quote unquote kind of earn or deserve that seed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he needs some good results and if we're being honest, he needs a win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody can see the talent he just needs the results.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Row two is Paddo Award, who's also one sixty two point zero seven eight and on the outside.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The fastest Penske's pretty good day for the Penske team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Scott McLaughlin one sixty one seven five eight.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So pretty pretty steep drop off from.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, pillow to McLaughlin at four.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you look at those one two and three numbers, those drivers are just a little bit more, I hate to say it, but they are just a little bit more ballsy when the way they approach their qualifying.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And even though Scottie Macca is such a great driver, I think we'll have some good experience heading into Milwaukee, obviously having won their last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's like it, Roach should have a lot of firepower, both are very, very aggressive.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Susie is from the Maglachlan clan, so she's always cheering for her cousin Scott.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: On the outside of road two, row three, the speed drops off even more to Willpower, one sixty point eight one nine, but inside row three for Willpower, we've talked about Pinsky struggles, but he's been pretty darn consistent.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He has been especially closing out this season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still in a contract battle, which, you know, if my personal take honestly cannot believe, Penske is not signed in for another year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the world of motorsports, nobody really knows anything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But being power and Kirkward lined up there in that third row, both will have a really good shot to move up the ladder and maybe compete for that first place.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I heard some and dready rumors today with Will Power, and I've been saying, if you're another top team take the opportunity to get him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's honestly hard to believe, and Ski would even let him go.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It seems incredible that he could be out of that number twelve car, but it really feels like it's almost a pretty much done deal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: be an interesting offseason for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Row four is the third Pinsky Joseph New Garden, one sixty three thirty and then our guy, the favorite of the central Indiana sports report, Connor Daley up there with the big teams like he always is on ovals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You'd be nuts not to hire him to drive for your team because he gives you a chance to win on every oval and every oval means in D.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: exactly and you know having that row with with Connor daily and Joseph new garden.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't think of any better two drivers on oval specifically and seeing them right in the not in the middle of the pack but towards the top of that middle of the pack will provide some great entertainment tomorrow no doubt about that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we could see a dane and victory lane inside of Rho five as Christian.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're asking you send he's been really good on ovals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Really daring driver and outside of Rho five is Graham Rho.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Good to see him up there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He is the fastest in the one fifty nine range at one fifty nine nine nine five.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Really great result for RLL as a whole, Graham has been really consistent in the second half of the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And RLL feels like they've made of taken a little bit of a step up comparative to where they're at in the beginning of the season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm expecting some fireworks with Connor Daily and Christian Rasmussen being so close to each other off the star of an oval.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I can almost guarantee you, Fox will be paying heavy attention to that battle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's tell him now, pay heavy attention to that battle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Also, pay attention to Connor Daily on the start and restarts because it's going to be fun.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lightning.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: One to mention this about RLL early in the year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They really struggled midseason.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They started to perform pretty well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I poo-pooed it as they're just good on those tracks, but lately they've kind of dispelled that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They've been pretty consistently having drivers near the top.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They really have, and I think if they're able to kind of get that learning curve in indie car, they could really challenge some of these upper teams, and it only makes this sport even better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And seeing a personality like Graham Ray Hall, up near the top, it is really good for this sport.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Rho six and another one we've been praising throughout the Uranus VK, he'll start eleven Alexander Rossi starts on the outside of Rho six.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just unprecedented the results that me case been able to provide the season for Delcoine racing and he's a great oval racer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously he's got the pace.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be very interested to see what they do strategy wise because coin usually pulls up some some special strategies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Starting twelve should be a great great start for him and a good opportunity for him to get in the top ten when it's all said and done tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And the strategy is so much different on the short ovals because you could not afford to go a lap down.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Especially at Milwaukee.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Row seven is Marcus Erickson, starting thirteen and Scott Dixon, starting fourteen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Dixon was one of the fastest cars in the field, but was penalized some spots.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Erickson, it looks like he may be the one looking for a job for man dready.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Erickson definitely needs a good result to close out this season, whether it's here in Milwaukee or next weekend at Nashville.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to need to put some good results when it's all set and done because he had that second place at Indy that obviously got relegated back to the back of the pack, but ever since then it just really felt like he's been unable to get any momentum.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Roe A is devil and defranchesco and Nolan Seagull, interesting row.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Roe nine, Marcus Armstrong, and Christian, Lune Gard, the other Dane, who wants to be in victory lane.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Roe ten is Stingray, Robin, Robert Schwartzman, Roe eleven, Santino, Farucci, and Jacob Abel from Louisville.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And Roe's Well is Calamayla and Colton heard of what happened with her today, Elijah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He just had a really big incident going into a technically turned to just off that first corner of the oval.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He caught it and he was able to save it from the barrier.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That was his first official lap time and it pretty much just threw his qualifying efforts in the bin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If he was able to save the car, that team will have to make updates or fix anything for tomorrow, starting back in the pack.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It should at least be interesting for fans to watch somebody maybe climb up here tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And row thirteen, an unfortunate Felix Rosenquist and Kevin Simpson who was penalized, actually with one, fifty, eight, one, three, two in his ganache and Rosenquist had an incident today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same for Rosenquist and that Meyer Shank racing team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He was coming off of turn four in the oval and just got the back of the car kind of just lost it and went into the wall.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Regardless, he's been very fast.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So him starting from the back will definitely be something to watch tomorrow to see where he can maybe end up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be, we'll be super fun because he's definitely got the pace for it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And row fourteen all by himself is Lily Foster who was also penalized.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He went one fifty seven five nine.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: which would have been outside of row eleven.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, amount of engine penalties this weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's usually pretty normal in indie car for drivers to pick up grid penalties for an engine swap every once in a while, but it really feels more common this season, especially with those ganache cars.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It feels like Scott Dixon's been penalized almost four times.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this is Kiffin Simpson's second time, which is a shame because they've got the pace on track and they need those results as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: busy day on Sunday and Milwaukee, eleven thirty is the NXT race on FS one the indie car race on again one of my favorite races of the year the Milwaukee mile starts to a clock on fox Elijah and I want to know who you favor and who do you expect to be the contenders for the win
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say my personal favorite, but it just really feels like Joseph new garden is going to win on an oval eventually this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's this weekend in Milwaukee or next weekend in Nashville, I would just be shocked to not see him in contention.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, you know, you go back to gateway.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that crash was Louis Foster couldn't help that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I look at both races in Iowa where he arguably could have won had some bad luck in the pit stops.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it just feels like it's eventually going to be his time, but contenders as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I would love to see Alex Pelo and Patto award battle for the win on two of the most aggressive and smart drivers on the grid.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I would be very entertained to watch and then my dark horse is going to have to be Conner Daily.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, he obviously had a podium here in Milwaukee last year starting in ninth is better than he's done in the previous years.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's not going to have to climb up as far as he used to and man, he's just so good on ovals.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I believe Susie and I are going to pick the same driver to win and Susie that is.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: as correct.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We both believe it is going to be a Pinsky's day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not going to be new garden.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It is going to be Scott McLaughlin.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Elijah, thank you so much.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We will react to the race after it's over tomorrow evening.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Probably would Dave Chandley and maybe some others.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What should we look for at Milwaukee?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we're going to see another really good indie car race.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about how this year has been very successful with the package indie cars brought and I think Milwaukee sets up for one of the best races of the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're looking at the two races last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They were just incredible and I'm really expecting to see some really stiff competition here tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Love it, love it, love it, love it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It might be my second favorite race on the entire schedule.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: It has to be just just a great race track and having that history Milwaukee.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing better than it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a it's a quintessential indie car.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The other wins in Wisconsin too.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Two and three I think are in Wisconsin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, wrote America.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it is the best wrote circuit in any car goes to.