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IndyCar: Portland Reaction with Elijah Poe, Dave Chanley & Michelle Garmon (Podcast 349.2) · 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 forty nine point two Eliza pose day change and Michelle Garman's reaction to the indie car race in Portland Of course, we're going to be talking about Alex blows championship Will powers and team Penske's first win of the year and what was another excellent race Another excellent performance
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[SPEAKER_03]: on the broadcast by Fox and the controversial, Connor Daily versus Christian Rasmussen incident.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We will be taking the week off for the Indie car report, but it will return next week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When we will also be previewing and reacting to the race and Milwaukee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sport Report with your host, Greg Mendelz.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, Indie Car fans and central Indiana Sport Report, and our reaction to
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sunday's Portland Grand Prix in Portland, Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: One of the road courses that goes for this back in the series and a fantastic race and another.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just great race today for the Indie car series.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think this was race number sixteen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're fifteen for sixteen this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was a big day for Willpower who got the first win for Pinsky this year avoiding their first winless season in twenty seven years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Christian Lune Guard was the runner-up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It looked like for a long time he might win the race, but fell one point five second short of Will Powers pace and then Alex Polo finished third but
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[SPEAKER_03]: big day for Alex below his fourth championship and a sixth year in the Indie car series is fourth championship in the last five years is third in a row.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, we have to start talking all time great now, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes, most definitely.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, tied with Mario and Dreddy and Dario in championships and he's just in a six year in Indie car and he's what, twenty eight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's unreal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just turn twenty eight recently.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This turn twenty eight and already has four indie car championships and no signs of slowing down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, he does it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know it was a great run for Will Power and one garden and everything, but you know, Palavo and that team they just continued to show either the best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that saved he made late in the race.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he wasn't, and he got back up to the back end of the guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's, it shows you just how great a driver he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of guys that wouldn't have been able to save it or do what he did at there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, for it has seven championships.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those, of course, were in the Usac Day Scott Dixon six and now Alex Plo is tied with Mario and Dreddy and Dario Frankie with four, the third most championships of all time Elijah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That kind of puts an in perspective.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It does.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It just shows how great he is to think of all the things he's done in only six years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, Mario and Dreddy was in
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[SPEAKER_04]: Indie Car for a very, very long time, and only has four championships.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And are you believe?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You also want a couple world championships and four mellow ones.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, well, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, still comparing seasons.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's got Alex, low beat by long shot and seeing Polo have this dominance with the tin car.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As Greg and I discussed about a week and a half ago, that tin crew as a whole has just been phenomenal for the last couple of decades.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm not sure we're going to see a driver this dominant for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Fox crew at the end, they said he could easily have eight championships, but it's time he's thirty five because he's just twenty eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just amazing when you think about that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I was going to predict whether that would happen or not, I would predict that it wouldn't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Too many things can happen, but you're right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There is definitely a chance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No doubt about it at this point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You would have to put him as the favorite the next five years going forward, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously, Potto is great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's not going to run this series like he did this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't believe going forward, but he could still win the championship and not even be this dominant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're right, but like Elijah Situ and like we've talked about his great, but why I think he has to be the favorite in white.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would count him out for those eight because as talented as he is as a driver, that ten, you know, that ten crew is just
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just fantastic as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As long as you can ask, he, I'm not sure when he, he fought to key them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So keep him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So how long does his current contract with going to ask you racing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How long is that for?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think he's got it on over years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think he's got to put me here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm probably going to come calling at this point.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was just about to say that with the two Cadillac seats opening up in twenty twenty six next year, Formula One, I would be very, very shocked if he isn't one of those drivers to have their their name and the hat when things are said and done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're probably right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be interesting to see what he does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if he's like under contract with Chip, you can ask you anything by saying as long as he's with, you can ask him and he's with that, and that ten thing that ten crew, I won't put, I mean, nothing will surprise me as far as what he heights he reaches success wise in any car.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even with Patto award in the arrow team and proving
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[SPEAKER_03]: You have to think that he's the favorite going into at least next year and going forward until proven otherwise he's the favorite.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's no reason to believe that he can't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just think there are too many factors saying he probably won't.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and he's been so dominant at this point where if I see another driver win, that is not below, you almost think it's a little bit lucky, just because of how good Polo is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's just unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And power rented great race today, credit to that Penske crew for getting it down their first win of the year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But even then, if Polo doesn't go off there with that little shout-out with Loon Guard, I'm not all sure power would have won that race.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it's always a what if it's a guessing game.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We'll never know, but man,
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[SPEAKER_04]: pillow was really looking fast and he had thirty seconds left of push a pass than a power did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to guess that no one was happier that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then will power that pillow was not able to get around the first made it and then the second because you have to know that power was thinking if pillow gets by.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get around the guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm probably.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going I'm probably not going to win this race and.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I just want to say, what a great, you know, I thought this was one of the best road races and one of the best indie car races of the year down the stretch because, you know, with power, looking guard and all been great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was, you know, they have all been great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, as far as really dramatic finish, you know, you had to read how many times races have we had that you can say over the last twenty laps that
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[SPEAKER_01]: three dry without fuel strategy or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The red drivers are actually in contention to win this race.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been amazing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't even produced by a yellow at the end or do a great racing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great race by below.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Proved that he is the champion he is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: makes the last two races kind of anticlimactic, but that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He still has a chance for tying and record.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So great for below.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great race today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good for Lune Guard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The guy that has to be thrilled is power, who is probably about out of a job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and wind and saves Pinsky from having a blank year of zero year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's talk about Willpower and the wind today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Dave mentioned it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: First wind for Pinsky this year was six years ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They last didn't win a race.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Power's been officially now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have to say the best Pinsky driver this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And in a season where Pinsky has been so bad, power has still been fairly consistent.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's obviously had a couple of problems with some engines this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I think today is, it's not a great win for willpower.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And for me, it's because of the pettiness off the track.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because at this race, we had, on the number four card today with David Malukis, had the Gallagher sponsor on the car, which is a Pinsky sponsor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And at that race where all the Gallagher representatives are there to meet David, they had a PR event, who else, but will power would get away and then kind of forthpins his hand in an awkward situation.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it was great to see will power win and will on and do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just think he's handled himself with really tremendous class.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These and through all of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of hit in his interview.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm going to like he's almost resigned to the fact he probably won't be back with Penske next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And believe it was due Elijah who said that could also be classic PR.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just was trying to look at his face and just read the emotions of his body and everything and I think that's where I got that more than anything is that he's I'm guessing that it's it's more than fifty fifty in his mind whether he'll be back with Penske or not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Other teams will be foolish not to sign him though, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's just said that, you know, we were in a point indie car where, you know, will power picks up team Penske's first win of an absolutely horrible season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And there's even discussions of him, you know, not even signing a one-year contract with Penske.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I get malukus is a great talent, but
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[SPEAKER_04]: If I'm pensky, I think I'd be stupid if I didn't sign willpower for another year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't care about his age.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's been the best racer of this team by far in twenty twenty four, and he's had just as many issues as New Garden has.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just more mature.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a mature.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the kind of driver I think you would want him to bring, you know, you want his maturity to continue to be in your shop.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Especially when you fire the top three people in your organization.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, power, who would have ever thought that will power would have been classier than Joseph New Garden?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in the year that has happened, used to be will power was the winer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and he has stepped up with the great maturity off the track, I believe, whereas New Garden has not, and I think it's a done deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's gone and Maluca is already behind the scenes signed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's not signed, but it's commitment, and I would be very surprised.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Willpower will be on a race team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think the speculation is where,
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you want me to go out on a limb, I'll say with Ray Hall Letterman.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This has been Devon D. Van Chesco's best weekend in a long time, but I can't imagine he will be back.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's out of the point circle at the leader circle and being in a team like RLL, I know they're not the upper echelon of this sport, but if you have three full-time cars and one of them is not in the leader circle for a team as well organized and as established as them, it's just unacceptable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and he also had a run and dready that was not successful too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's probably on the outside looking in and let's give some kudos today to Graham Ray Hall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Lou Foster's had quite a year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Louis Faustler, he really reminds me of of Christian Lungard who was in that in that same predicament RLL just a handful of years ago.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can tell Faustler's got the pace ending in thirteen today isn't bad and seeing Graham and fourth climb up all the way from twenty second off.
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[SPEAKER_04]: of great strategy calls is exactly what you want to see out of RLL and and I think fans are are very happy to see Ray Hall up there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think he deserves to be up there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's been great for the series as a whole and and seeing that team up there is no doubt a positive thing for Indicars.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hold.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Before we talk about the Fox coverage today, any thoughts on a rask mucen daily dispute.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just think it's almost due diligence by indie car series as a whole to set this precedent where if you have the racing line, you're allowed to just shove any driver you want off the track.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Specifically on road courses, it's been a big problem this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You look at Barbara Laguna Saca as well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's not great racing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we're not in that where the series is not NASCAR.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We have open wheeled cars where
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[SPEAKER_04]: any contact can really lead into some big accidents.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we saw that today with Connor daily that contact with the last Houston was very small, but that impact was huge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just got lucky he didn't roll.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, and here's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What I don't like about that is that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Dixon, who came up on New Garden and really hardly anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Since I'm off, you know, and it's because he got there too fast or was nowhere, I mean, it's not like, oh, it just was George.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're for him to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he gets penalized.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, made no sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's punishments are arbitrary and judgment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's not, they're not really following a, you know, a strict rule or pattern.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what it seems like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a little bit different perspective on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think, uh, brasmus and then daily, both went after each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It started and they had the little bit of, uh,
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[SPEAKER_02]: little bit of a tango.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to say, daily was just as upset.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He, he right out of his way in there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because they could have, they could have pulled them both off the track.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right this started though with raspberries and completely running daily off the road in the first place.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then he did it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And yes, daily was not behaving properly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But he got ran off the road twice by the same guy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it looked intense.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They had little incidents here and there over the lap, but the swords, they really only should be looking at the one incidents that caused that accident because that's what you should be penalizing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You shouldn't be looking at, oh, well, Connor, he got into him three corners back, you know, so it was just a little retaliation.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's just not how it should work, especially when, you know, that accident was, was really big.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That was just, you just can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's talk about Fox's performance today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought the drone views and the low views and the track side cameras were phenomenal in the production.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They caught almost every on track pass.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Fox is doing a phenomenal job as far as that goes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I give him an A today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No question.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No question.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They did a really good job specifically.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Just in those opening laps when you have paddle or word pulling away, I feel like in previous years, it felt like we're still watching those front runners.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But almost immediately today, we're three laps in and we're not even focusing on the front runners.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And honestly, that's all the fans want to see.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We want to see those on track passes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I think Portland specifically, those cameras are so close to those barriers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It just looks like they're absolutely flying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Fox has just gotten better and better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: better with their coverage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I love the fact that they try to find the the best racing, you know, the ones that are passes, the drivers that are fighting for position switching and not just staying with, you know, the leaders or hung up on that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's made a real commitment to Andy Carr.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think they've really made a commitment to Andy Carr there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think they are part owner of Andy Carr.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's solidifies it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, we're in this guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're all in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Elijah and I will be talking about that on the Andy Carr report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Either this week or next week, we will decide that after the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for reminding me of that day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, guys, the final results and feel free to drop in at any time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Will power his first win since Detroit last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Big day for him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And a day team, Penske needed as a whole, getting getting in that win column is huge for them and even bigger for Will power since he's going through contract negotiations with two races left.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It'll be some popcorn to see where he ends up for twenty twenty six.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And second place is the second and a half behind a look like for a long part of the day that he might win his first race this year Christian Lungard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We did not get a pain in victory lane.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to get there soon though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Arrow McLaren is
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[SPEAKER_02]: good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They are good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know Pado didn't have a good day, but he had a great start to the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And those two cars, I mean, hats off to them and Christian just drove the wheels off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see about no one's equal, but the other do no doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For Scram Ray Hall on fourth, we already mentioned great drive for him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I believe that's his second highest finish besides Indy this year, the Indy road course.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like I said with Will Power, that's a result they need any momentum heading into twenty twenty six.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It is what teams are really focused on now, especially if you're not fighting for a championship, because nobody's fighting for a championship anymore.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's exactly what Ray Hall needs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then Alexander Rossi, someone else who needed a big day finished fifth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a great race for ECR and Rossi.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was up there the whole time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He had a good weekend, a great finish.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then six place Calamilot, man, the last three or four weeks been really impressive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's come out of nowhere the last three or four weeks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He has become very impressive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's trying to put his name out there for some big time, one of the biggies to take him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a biggie.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think they could be.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've said many times in this podcast, Prima is institutionalized in every racing series around the world, but IndyCar and NASCAR.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And now that they're in IndyCar, they are taking some great strategy calls, seeing a lot climb up to six from twenty-four.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're able to make those risky calls.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And seeing him climb up and have such a great second half of the season is awesome to see from a team that's just in their first year in IndyCar.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, when I used to say, Pence, he had a really good day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That probably meant first second and fifth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Today, they have an a pretty good day meant first, seventh and twenty fourth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take it with a grain of salt that's got my glockling inside.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In eighth place, again, Meyer Shankin, another good day, Marcus Armstrong.
20:05
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been amazing how how evened out the series has become become this year.
20:11
[SPEAKER_04]: It has been, and you look at Meyer's shank with that driver line up.
20:15
[SPEAKER_04]: I know you haven't said Rosenquist, but he's in ninth right.
20:18
[SPEAKER_04]: He's in ninth right behind them.
20:19
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm really interested since they have that driver line up for next year to see what they can do with two full years together as a team because they've really found a great formula to compete with a smaller team.
20:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they've become pretty strong.
20:35
[SPEAKER_02]: They're, they're fun to watch and Rosenquist has been knocking on the door several races this year.
20:41
[SPEAKER_03]: Golden Hearder was tenth and Scott Dixon was eleven despite being penalized stupidly.
20:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see when he got penalized I believe he was six fifth or six and at that point it was just another Scott Dixon like day and he was Scott Dixon Scott Dixon he's just fabulous that was a minor little incident and oh well he'll be fine he'll be fine.
21:09
[SPEAKER_03]: This is six championships he'll take him and
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[SPEAKER_03]: and be fine.
21:14
[SPEAKER_03]: And Christian Rasmussen finished twelve despite not being penalized stupidly.
21:20
[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, not a bad result from Rasmussen.
21:23
[SPEAKER_04]: Even though he does some knuckleheaded things on the track, I'd be damned if every indie car fan doesn't just love watching him race because he is just aggressive to another level that not a lot of drivers have.
21:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a fan despite him taking out my favorite driver today.
21:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to turn on him.
21:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Louis Foster was thirteen stingray rob nice day fourteen and Robert Schwartzman fifth.
21:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Good job all three of those those three guys are all trying to make a name for themselves and they were static and also I'm just going to say toward the end of the race.
22:01
[SPEAKER_02]: There were three passes when we'll power got around the person in front of him and now all three moved over with great sportsmanship and let the three race.
22:12
[SPEAKER_04]: He's the right thing.
22:13
[SPEAKER_04]: We're at the five hundred now.
22:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
22:16
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
22:17
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, I demand they do it at the five hundred.
22:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Make them get out of the way.
22:21
[SPEAKER_04]: But that was good sportsmanship and good to see because you know fans, we want to see the fight for first second and third and man, we had a great one today.
22:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Great race today.
22:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Great race today.
22:34
[SPEAKER_03]: No one's Eagle, sixteenth, Rina's V. Case, sixteenth, Devlin, Defranchesco, eighteenth, and David Malukus was nightteach, despite him getting all the headlines and power not.
22:47
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, rough outing for Malukus as a whole, and AJ, we can really analyze their second half of their season.
22:53
[SPEAKER_04]: He's just been a little bit down now.
22:57
[SPEAKER_02]: been rightly.
22:58
[SPEAKER_02]: They had a great middle of the season.
23:00
[SPEAKER_02]: And now it's your right.
23:02
[SPEAKER_02]: It's downhill.
23:04
[SPEAKER_03]: Kyle Kirkwood was twenty of speaking of falling off.
23:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, he was in second place like five races ago.
23:11
[SPEAKER_03]: And now it's just been nowhere.
23:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
23:15
[SPEAKER_03]: The open would come in back.
23:16
[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll see how Andy does on the opens.
23:19
[SPEAKER_03]: Given Simpson twenty first Marcus Erickson twenty second Erickson was one of those guys who pulled over his was probably the
23:27
[SPEAKER_03]: nicest because he could have really messed things up.
23:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Jacob Abel from Louisville was twenty-third.
23:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Joseph New Garden was twenty-fourth.
23:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I did not hear him after the race.
23:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I can imagine he was happy.
23:38
[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's a shame that those little incidents happen all the time when you come out of pit.
23:43
[SPEAKER_04]: He was also, he was running fourteenth.
23:46
[SPEAKER_04]: It was not good.
23:47
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I need it.
23:48
[SPEAKER_04]: He likes pacing.
23:50
[SPEAKER_04]: He didn't have a horrible qualifying, but unfortunately, he got hit with that six grid penalty place when you have to change an extra engine.
23:58
[SPEAKER_04]: And yeah, just unfortunately, new garden and forgettable season, forgettable race as a whole.
24:05
[SPEAKER_02]: He'll be back next year.
24:06
[SPEAKER_02]: He'll be back in two weeks in two weeks.
24:08
[SPEAKER_02]: He's at his home course, Lebanon, Tennessee.
24:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Pado Award was twenty-fifty, end of his potential championship run, which honestly ended about three months ago, when Polo won the first three races of the season.
24:23
[SPEAKER_04]: That's probably the most unfortunate part about Indie Carr nowadays, and it's been forever, but with the new hybrid, it feels like these little instances with the engines are more common.
24:34
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just sucks to see a driver get taken out by nothing of his doing.
24:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Connor Daley was, unfortunately, he was actually a pretty good position and was very racy with some good cars.
24:46
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I would love to see him finish that one out.
24:49
[SPEAKER_04]: Like you said, he was so racy in those opening laps going through you wide to widen the most corners and that mid-pack battle.
24:56
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a shame he got tagged in that incident.
24:58
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll be interested to hear what he has to say on his podcast this week about it.
25:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw what he said on Twitter and it wasn't pretty.
25:06
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it was not.
25:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Go check it out, everybody.
25:10
[SPEAKER_03]: He called some people out.
25:13
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Santino Farucci did not get out of the first lap.
25:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And he hit hard as well.
25:20
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
25:22
[SPEAKER_04]: And that was honestly a little bit of a rookie mistake just spending the tires out and getting on the power really uncanny from Santino.
25:30
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's really had a really bad second half of the season.
25:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Still like that fit in that car.
25:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's a guy.
25:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
25:41
[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, Connor Daily finished twenty-six, and they can still say, still finished.
25:45
[SPEAKER_03]: I had to say, you know, for Archie.
25:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Back to the ovals.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Two more races.
25:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:53
[SPEAKER_02]: And the ovals.
25:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
25:56
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
25:56
[SPEAKER_02]: And I, yes, I'll be there in a Lebanon, Tennessee.
26:00
[SPEAKER_04]: So excited for the Milwaukee Mile, especially.
26:03
[SPEAKER_04]: You guys haven't seen on Twitter yesterday.
26:06
[SPEAKER_04]: They got so much rain up there.
26:07
[SPEAKER_04]: The Milwaukee Mile was actually underwater, but today everything's drained out, looks good.
26:12
[SPEAKER_04]: And there's not a historic racetrack in the world other than the Milwaukee Mile and IMS.
26:17
[SPEAKER_04]: They're one and two.
26:18
[SPEAKER_03]: One and two.
26:19
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's always great to see in my novels.
26:22
[SPEAKER_03]: It's IMS from the Nay large gap to Milwaukee, but they're still one and two.
26:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.
26:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
26:31
[SPEAKER_03]: In case you're wondering what happened there, Dave jumped in a few minutes after we began, and Michelle had to leave before we went through the results.
26:39
[SPEAKER_03]: But thanks so much to Elijah, Dave, and Michelle for joining me.
26:45
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