Latest / The Indycar Dad Podcast / INDYCAR News in 5 Minutes - April 27th, 2026 - Ep. 24
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- Indycar Dad Podcast: Hey IndyCar family, I'm IndyCarDad, your host for IndyCar News in 5 minutes. I read and watch everything IndyCar for the past week, then I try to summarize it in 5 minutes. the big news this week is we're definitely going to have 33 cars for the Indy 500. Jacob Abel and Cat Leg just showed their rides. Jacob Abel's car was pure white and it looked great in my eyes. I know people don't really care that much for the DW12, but I really think that's just kind of sick of it. But in Speedway trim, that thing looks like a rocket ship and I really like the way it looks. Kat's Ride was provided by Foyt and HMD. So Foyt probably didn't have the pit crew, so they got the HMD Indy White's pit crew working, probably. That car looks amazing. It's in the Elf Cosmetics library. You can follow my lead and take your daughter to buy all the Elf cosmetics she wants at Target. Elf Cosmetics are very reasonably priced and they're a nice quality brand. So that made my daughter very happy two years ago and she'll be happy to hear about it this year because there'll be a little shopping spree. Elf will not break the bank. IndyCar, in other news, so that's 33 cars, in other news, IndyCar announced that next year all races other than the 500 are gonna be capped at 27 cars. No more than 27, which is interesting because next year there's gonna be 27 charters. So essentially what they're saying is every race except the Indy 500 is closed to new entries. Only the teams that have charters will be allowed to enter. And then at the Indy 500, we'll hope to see six additional cars make the field. So I'd like to just take this moment to give props to Dale Coyne, Ricardo Juncos, Brad Hollinger. These are guys that self-funded their teams for a long time. They hung in there and they ended up with an asset that is Undeniably worth a decent amount of money. So Congrats to you guys. It's not often you hear about someone who actually makes a little bit of money in racing. So good job This week is the open test. So it's Monday night now Tuesday and Wednesday will be the open test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway I'm very excited. I'm be there. I'm driving down in Indy tomorrow morning and they even gave me a parking pass So thanks. Thanks to the Speedway. It's gonna be fun to see the cars on the track It's gonna be fun to see the cars going so fast. The veterans will start the day on Tuesday. Then there'll be rookies and re-qual, re, what are they called? I don't know, refreshers. And then in the afternoon, it'll be all skate again. Wednesday will be all skate all day long, so anybody can drive. If you wanna follow the action at home, it will be broadcast on YouTube and there should be live timing and scoring in the app. So that's pretty good. The only other news I could come up with this week that was somewhat interesting is Dreyer and Reinbold had this weird announcement where they announced that they have a co-entry for the 500 with Huncos Hollinger. So they mentioned that they're co-entering Renes VK in the race. I'm not exactly sure what that means. Does that mean Dreyer and Reinbold is trying to buy one of the charters from Huncos? Or does that mean Dreyer and Reinbold just had a sponsor that wanted in on the race and Huncos needed a sponsor so they're sort of splitting the pot? Or is this some sort of elaborate ploy to get out of the string stingray Robb contract who knows but something's going on over there between who goes and Reinbold so All right, I we usually do winners and losers, but there's not a lot of action this week so for winners We'll just say Jacob a bone Katherine leg and read us VK For you know making the news and forgetting in the race now. What's next the open test tomorrow check my social media? I don't do a podcast every day or a couple of times a day, but I might do social media posts a couple of times a day during the open test. So I'm at IndyCarDad on social media. I try to keep these brief. Thanks for listening. And you'll find my podcast on podcast networks everywhere.