Agreed. Bring back Belle Isle.
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Soooo not a lot happening in IndyCar off track right now….
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So happy to see David land on his feet at MSR. They’ve got a strong program. Shame for Blomqvist, but he’s been pretty disappointing.
Canapino getting benched is WILD. I mean, his fan base is sooo “passionate” that something had to happen at some point. If your fans start sending death threats to your technical partner team, that’s generally considered not good. Now the bad behavior is actively affecting the team. I think Ricardo had some patience for those bad fans but Hollinger seems like the one who is done with it. And Canapino seems equally “passionate” as his countrymen.
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Did Malukas take his ride?
Malukas took Tom Blomqvist’s seat
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Was at the race today, always a pleasure to visit Road America for anything. This was my little dude’s first car race. He wasn’t totally stoked on it… liked seeing the cars but the noise kinda freaked him out and he was bored and ready to leave before the warm up lap ended 
But he got to meet Daly and Kirkwood on the grid before the race. Neither of them got a fist bump from him… he’s a tough one to crack.
Convinced him to stay and we sat in the car and watched in the Carousel to the end. I asked if he wanted to leave a few times and he kept telling me he wanted to stay until the race was over so we could see if “your friend in the pink car (Kirkwood) wins” 
So I didn’t get to hang with my friends or drink beers or wander the grounds as much as I normally do, but it was fun having my boy there with me. Oh! And he got a free McLaren hat from one of the team guys. The guy wandered by and saw Fletch in his wagon and handed him a free hat.
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With the Indycar / Fox 2025 schedule out with overlapping dates for the World Wide Technology Race and Le Mans in conflict, I wonder how many drivers will bail that weekend.
If they’re under contract to an Indycar team, i doubt they’d be bailing for Lemans
Siegel signs a multi-year deal with McLaren for the #6 car.
This is cool for Nolan who is impressive, but sucks hard for Theo who gave up his European career to come drive for McLaren here. They just signed him “for the rest of the season” a couple weeks ago and now he’s already out and Nolan is in? Plus Malukas was booted because they needed a stable driver and now they change it up again; ironically AFTER Malukas is cleared ro race and gets another contract. WTF goes on at McLaren behind closed doors? Between this and the Palou drama it’s not a good look for management…
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I believe the term is “clusterfuck”.
I like Nolan, but there is no way he’s at the level of Theo right now.
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At this rate Logan Sergent will be in that seat mid year next year.
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Sheer stupidity double booking WWT over LeMans. Scheduling a mediocre venue on the same weekend as one of the crown jewels of motorsport? LeMans attracts so many drivers from other categories, it is a total shame that Indycar has eliminated all of their drivers for 2025. 
Don’t even get me started on the McLaren 
show. I want to root for them, but then they do semingly stupid and short-sighted things, again…
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I like how Indycar isn’t enforcing any track limits at Laguna Seca. Use it all boys!
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Just watched the Laguna race. TJ your guy Kirkwood had an awesome start and a not too bad race. I just can’t get my head around so many safety car periods. I love that there are drivers making good hard overtakes (beats F1) but also too many desperate lunges imho. Would love to see Hamilton or Verstappen, LeClerc, Norris etc out there for one or two races just to get a gauge on the skill level of current IndyCar drivers:)
Never gone around Laguna on four wheels but have done it on two and it is all it’s cracked up to be, much fun!
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One thing I really like about Indycar over F1 is that you can get a tow out of gravel or whatever and restart instead of just being knocked out.
Mid Ohio qualy today.
Hybrid teething issues at Iowa. Apparently there was a network breakdown for certain runs for qualifying causing the hybrid to not deploy. Indycar is allowing Harvey and Herta to try again.
It’s reliant on a network. That’s scary.
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Harvey out, Daly in for the rest of the weekend.
Edit: scratch that, Marshall Pruett posted a picture of Daly being fitted in his car due to back pain for Harvey. Looks like they changed plans.
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Armstrong has some weird issue caused by Indycar turning on the caution blinking lights.
There appear to be quite a few bugs in this new system.