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Speaker 2: Fan We rolled to green and we're racing at Barber

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Speaker 3: Now incomes Christian Lundgard.

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Speaker 1: Will it be hard?

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Speaker 3: Will it be socked?

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Speaker 4: This the question the.

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Speaker 2: Answer of which could determine this race jacket.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Will, and he is going to go with the

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Speaker 5: That is as good as race over for Christian Ludgart

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Speaker 2: And all that work I'll done in a moment Alex below.

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Speaker 5: Three quarters of his victories in INDYCA have come on

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Speaker 3: He wins again today.

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Speaker 2: It's win twenty one for commis Hello and look at

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Speaker 2: the top of your screen. Graham Rayhle is hanging on

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the latest edition of The Polo Show, otherwise

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Speaker 4: known as Trackside ninety three to five one oh seven

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Speaker 4: five the Fan in Indianapolis. That's where Landon Coons is

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Speaker 4: at Kevin Leek or Cavin Highlights courtesy of Fox Sports

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Speaker 4: of the latest Alex Polo beat down in the NTT

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Speaker 4: IndyCar Series, but he has not yet clinched the championship.

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Speaker 4: Kyle Kirkwood plus two. As we head to round five

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Speaker 4: with a two week break, the ACCRA Grand Prix of

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us this evening.

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Speaker 4: We'll get to a lot of things on the program tonight,

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Speaker 4: breaking down Barber and also doing a little head counts

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Speaker 4: with I think some changes of what we all thought

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Speaker 4: coming up in just a little bit, Kurt before we start,

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Speaker 4: because I keep forgetting to do this. We're not even

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Speaker 4: do it? And I had some people at barber this

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Speaker 3: It is set.

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Speaker 4: It is a different date and location the last year,

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Speaker 4: because we like to keep people on their toes, but

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Speaker 4: it's at least a return location. New date though, Thursday

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Speaker 4: of Race weekend Thursday is that May twenty May twenty first,

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Speaker 4: If you can travel by Thursday, you can join us

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Speaker 4: Thursday evening still from five point fifteen ish till about

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Speaker 4: Georgetown and so forth. And it is again delivered by

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Speaker 4: Cluster Truck. We're going to have a VIP section for

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Speaker 4: We hope everybody can make plans to come in a

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Speaker 4: benefiting the IU Signon Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Speaker 4: On Friday the twenty second, from about five until eight pm.

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Speaker 1: They have they have shown better, they have gotten better results. Ericson,

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Speaker 1: we're just you know, I think we're all quietly cheering

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Speaker 1: for Marcus Rickson. He's such a good guy. I mean,

442
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Speaker 1: you know that what's happened the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: in Andretti has not been indicative of his talent. And

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Speaker 1: yet I mean in his Indy five hundred to last

445
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Speaker 1: two or three four years have been on par with anybody,

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Speaker 1: you know Polo's. I mean, Potto and Polo are the

447
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Speaker 1: only two that you would say kind of have been

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Speaker 1: aside from obviously Joseph's two wins have been at Ericson's

449
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Speaker 1: level the last you know, four five years. But you know,

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Speaker 1: Ericson and Marcus Armstrong two guys that you can really

451
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Speaker 1: get behind and cheer for, and they've had better results.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they're doing a better job, they

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Speaker 1: just had better results. Armstrong is somebody before long, Marcus

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Speaker 1: Armstrong is going to win a race. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he can do it in this particular season. Kirk

456
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Speaker 1: was gonna win his share, Polo's gonna win his share, Joe,

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Speaker 1: so we'll probably win another one. Pulo's power is going

458
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Speaker 1: to win one. You know. Obviously Malucas Haud be in

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Speaker 1: the hunt and we haven't really got to McLaughlin, so

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Speaker 1: it's going to be hard to win a race. But

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Speaker 1: at some point Marcus Armstrong is going to win a race,

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Speaker 1: because that's you can just see it coming.

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned Ericson.

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Speaker 4: He feels to me like one of these guys you

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Speaker 4: want on your team, like Felix Rosenquist. Felix hasn't had

466
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Speaker 4: awesome results in his career, but he's wanted because he's quick,

467
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Speaker 4: he's good teammate, he helps the program overall, I think

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Speaker 4: Marcus is like that as well. And if he stays

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Speaker 4: where he's at inside the top ten and is strong

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Speaker 4: again at the Indy five hundred, I don't know how

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Speaker 4: you don't invite him back.

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Speaker 1: Well, the point is the last little element to that

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Speaker 1: is how good he is at Indy and how much

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Speaker 1: he can help teammates at Indy. I mean, you talk

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Speaker 1: about powers influence at the Indie five hundred Andretti, but

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Speaker 1: I think Marcus Erickson's helped him as well. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: you know, the improvement Kirkwood has shown at Indy, I

478
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Speaker 1: think you know Ericson probably had something to do with

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Speaker 1: that as well. So you know, the other common denominator

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Speaker 1: between Marcus Erickson and Felix Rosenquist low maintenance. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are not They are not disruptive to your program, and

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Speaker 1: very few guys in this paddock are disruptive. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's not a slap at anybody, But you talk about

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Speaker 1: low maintenance guys, Felix rosen Quist is an additive, not

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Speaker 1: a distraction. Same with Ericson.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I need to mention Santino Ferrucci was the best

487
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Speaker 4: day that aj Foyd Racing and Ferrucci had had this weekend.

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Speaker 3: He was legitimately quick, just.

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Speaker 4: Missed out on the Firestone Fast six and you know,

490
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Speaker 4: ran six, seventh, eight the entire race and finishes aid.

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Speaker 4: So that's a track for them that they'd not been

492
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Speaker 4: super strong at much of the time. So they've kind

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Speaker 4: of broken through there. And we're eventually going to see

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Speaker 4: more road courses. But next up is one more street

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Speaker 4: course coming up in a couple of weeks. But you know,

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Speaker 4: then we get into it with the Indie Grand Prix

497
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Speaker 4: and of course, uh the five hundred and and so

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Speaker 4: much more. Anybody else in the box score we need

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Speaker 4: to touch on.

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Speaker 1: I don't well, you know who was you know who

501
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Speaker 1: looks guys Roman Grojean looked good. Uh, he continues to

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Speaker 1: you know, if you were to put truth seer him

503
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Speaker 1: to him, he'd probably say that that Barber Motors Force

504
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Speaker 1: Park is his best circuit on the trail. He's he's

505
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Speaker 1: had some really good runs there. You know, that's a

506
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Speaker 1: program that that has been overhauled during the off season.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, got Bill Papas on his car

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Speaker 1: and I think, you know, I think you're going to

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Speaker 1: see some more good runs. I think the Indie road

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Speaker 1: course will be another place at Grosean and and companies

511
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Speaker 1: should be pretty good at and I thought he looked

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Speaker 1: really good in many instances over the weekend.

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Speaker 4: He just kind of slid back throughout the race. I

514
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 4: know he lost a couple of spots. I saw that

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Speaker 4: on the onboard. I guess yesterday when Ericson got inside

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Speaker 4: of him and they had some contact and Roma lost a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of spots.

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Speaker 4: I'm just kind of looking at his post race quote.

519
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 4: He says, the strategy did not go our way. We

520
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 4: couldn't find clet air that killed our lap times, had

521
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 4: the most important portions, and as the race went on,

522
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Speaker 4: we just seemed to fall farther back. The car had

523
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Speaker 4: so much pace and it's a shame we're not able

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Speaker 4: to show it in the final results. So yeah, he

525
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Speaker 4: was in a really happy mood all week in. He

526
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Speaker 4: came in, he said, what are your expectations before it started?

527
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Speaker 4: And he said, I have no idea. We've done no simulation,

528
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 4: we've not tested on a road course. We just don't know.

529
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Speaker 4: But the team has been solid there before. Reenas Vike

530
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,719
Speaker 4: was good in that car last year and as you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: he's been great A poll a second place finish, all

532
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Speaker 4: the rest inside the top ten most of the time,

533
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Speaker 4: so that's good for them to have another good weekend

534
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Speaker 4: like they did at Saint.

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Speaker 3: Pete as well.

536
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Speaker 4: On the other side of things, I since the frustration

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Speaker 4: coming for Christian Rasmussen, who's been fast on the ovals

538
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 4: and a player in the ovals. But we're four races

539
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 4: in and he has We're almost a quarter the way

540
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Speaker 4: in the season, not quite because they added a race

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Speaker 4: this season now with eighteen, but he does not have

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Speaker 4: a result to show for it. This year, he's finished nineteenth, fourteenth,

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Speaker 4: twenty fifth and nineteenth and he still hasn't really broken

544
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Speaker 4: through on non ovals.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we don't spend a lot of

546
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Speaker 1: time talking about the leader Circle program, but what is

547
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: he like? Twenty second twenty third in points. I mean,

548
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Speaker 1: that's again not really a point of where he's going

549
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: to end up this season, but I think it's reflective

550
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Speaker 1: of just how poor the results have been.

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Speaker 4: It's it's twenty second, yeah, head of only Siegel, Sting Ray,

552
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Speaker 4: Rob and Mick Schumacher.

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Speaker 1: That's not the territory that Rasmussen is a his desires

554
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: to be part of, and I wouldn't expect him to

555
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: be there long, but you know, especially he's had he

556
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: had such a good run he was so you talk

557
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: about Newgarden being dominant at Phoenix, really the dominant driver

558
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: at Phoenix was Rasmusen and and he just doesn't get

559
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: the result. And that's on him. And I think you

560
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: know we're talking about moments. We were talking about it

561
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Speaker 1: in the office. Well we'll debate these and tomorrow's insideline

562
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Speaker 1: on IndyCar dot com. But you talk about moments of

563
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: the season so far. March moment, if you will. That

564
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Speaker 1: March moment for me might be if we see Christian

565
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: Rasmussen dueling for the Indy five hundred. You'll go back

566
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Speaker 1: to that Phoenix race and say we saw his oval

567
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: program is is top notch, and he was really good

568
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Speaker 1: at last year's Indy five hundred two, so.

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Speaker 4: He could's going to be cued up also because just

570
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Speaker 4: because he's running up front doesn't mean he finishes upfront.

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Speaker 1: That's right, He's going to be He's going to be

572
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Speaker 1: in interesting to watch. But Rasmussen, he certainly has not

573
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Speaker 1: shown on the street and road courses yet what he

574
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Speaker 1: would expect.

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Speaker 4: And we'll finish where we started and wish an early

576
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Speaker 4: happy birthday to Alex Poulo, who turns twenty nine tomorrow

577
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Speaker 4: and has twenty one wins stat already, he's won ten

578
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Speaker 4: of the last twenty one races.

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Speaker 3: Is that right?

580
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Speaker 1: Is it ten? Or let's say eight last year? Two?

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Speaker 1: This year he has ten of twenty one. I mean

582
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Speaker 1: he's hitting four point fifty. You got to go back

583
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Speaker 1: to a fory sixty four season to see those kind

584
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Speaker 1: of kind of race numbers. I mean, that's staggering. I

585
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Speaker 1: mean that's not entirely true. There's been other drivers do that.

586
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Speaker 1: Boor Day and champ Car, you know, obviously was very dominant.

587
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Speaker 4: In a combined series. I want to see who's done

588
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Speaker 4: that in the last fifty five years.

589
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a short list.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say it might be a list of one.

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Speaker 3: It's no more than three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, you're right, You're right, it's and certainly

593
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Speaker 1: in this what I would call this modern era of

594
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Speaker 1: the sport where teams are just so equal, you know,

595
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: and and any any team can step up and win races.

596
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: So really you're talking about since unification, you haven't seen

597
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Speaker 1: somebody do this type of run he's been unbelievable. And

598
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: in those eleven quote quote lose losses, I mean you

599
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: got second place finishes, you got third place finishes. How

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Speaker 1: many podiums in those twenty one?

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Speaker 4: He threw one away at mid Ohio. The only mistake

602
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 4: he's really ever made.

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Speaker 1: Well, he made a mistake at Iowa, but not in

604
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Speaker 1: the You're not thoseless, you know, it's a short list

605
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: of days when he doesn't perform, Like like we've now

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Speaker 1: become a custom all.

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Speaker 3: Right, coming up next, what's Colton hurt are going to

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Speaker 3: be doing in May?

609
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Speaker 4: We'll discuss and debate who who's going to fill the field.

610
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Speaker 3: Will he be more than thirty three for the NDY

611
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Speaker 3: five hundred?

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Speaker 4: That and some of your tweets from the xbox coming

613
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Speaker 4: up trackside ninety three to five one oh seven five

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Speaker 4: the fan.

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Speaker 1: This is Alex Plow and you're listening to truck Site.

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Speaker 4: Okay, before we get to the Indy five hundred, let's

617
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Speaker 4: get to the xbox via Twitter. Lynn Drive for four

618
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 4: Astra Cups in a row says, after watching the first

619
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Speaker 4: road course for twenty sixty, you think the rest of

620
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Speaker 4: the field is catching up to CGR.

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Speaker 1: You mean catching up to Alex Polow because I think they.

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Speaker 4: They only lost by thirteen seconds instead of sixteen.

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Speaker 1: I think he was taking it easy those last Once

624
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Speaker 1: Longard had his trouble, he was on Polow was on cruise.

625
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Speaker 1: But you know, they've certainly caught up to Kiff and

626
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: Simpson and Scott Dixon and the Meyers Shank guys. But

627
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Speaker 1: you know, nobody's got an answer for Alex Polow. And

628
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: it really would be fun to let the drivers all

629
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Speaker 1: see what Alex does if he had an in car camera.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's chatter about that now. They all think

631
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Speaker 1: it's some conspiracy. I just think, as others have pointed out,

632
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit everywhere. He's not killing him

633
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: in one spots. He's inches ahead of him everywhere, which

634
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: adds up to a lot.

635
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Speaker 4: The other owners should all walk into the driver's meeting

636
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 4: at the next round with a few thousand dollars apiece

637
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 4: and hand it over and say and hand it over

638
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 4: to Fox and say, hey, we're buying an onboard for

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Speaker 4: Alex below.

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00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: I don't know why somebody hasn't done that. I mean

641
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Speaker 1: maybe it's not allowed, No, probably not allowed.

642
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it can be assigned or

643
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 4: what the circumstance is. I know he's had one for

644
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 4: the ND five hundred, and maybe he has had one

645
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 4: for other races, but it's just been a while. Brett

646
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,719
Speaker 4: drew at I Like Orange forty four says, I'm kind

647
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 4: of getting bored during more and more IndyCar races. This

648
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 4: is how I felt when I stopped watching F one

649
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 4: in NASCAR. With the segments. I'm really hoping the other

650
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 4: teams can catch up to Alex. It's becoming stagnant. Hopefully

651
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 4: the competition gets better. Here's the scary thing. The guy

652
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 4: who statistically is the second best driver ever is on

653
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 4: the same team, in the same equipment, and I know

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00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 4: he's forty five, but he's still pretty good. And Scott

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Speaker 4: Dixon is not close to a Tipolo right now.

656
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: He really isn't. And you know, I get that. I

657
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: in fact, I got a text the minute after the race,

658
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: and you know, a good friend said, you know, this

659
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: is sure a great race. Back there for a second,

660
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't feel that way, and I enjoy watching Alex

661
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: and I I mean, I guess maybe if this were

662
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: to continue for a long time, maybe I'd feel differently.

663
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: But I like seeing who can compete with him, and

664
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: I like that Christian Lungard was in the same zip

665
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: code yesterday. I was trying to think if an area

666
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: code was bigger than a zip code, but neither one

667
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 1: of them. No one was in either of those categories

668
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: except Linduard. Graham Rayhill wasn't close. I mean, he ran

669
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: a great race. He's back thirteen fourteen seconds. He wasn't

670
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: going to beat Polow, but Linduard might have. I think

671
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 1: that is our story. And I've mentioned this before. If

672
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: whenever and he's not going to win the mall, whenever

673
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: someone beats him or even is competing with him, it

674
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: is a story because he might be the greatest ever.

675
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: So when someone can outdo him, like Kirkwood at Arlington, correct,

676
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: like Potawa War did it midd Ohio a couple of

677
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: years ago, it can happen, and it will happen.

678
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 3: And as strong as he's.

679
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 4: Been, he's not leading the championship, you know you can

680
00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 4: out consistent him. It's only four races. But say say

681
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 4: he gets collected another time, say they lose an engine

682
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 4: and Kyle Kirkwood finishes top five in every race and

683
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 4: wins three races.

684
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 3: That might be enough.

685
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would. I mean I didn't do that.

686
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 3: I don't think it's likely, but it might be. It

687
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 3: of telling you there's a chance.

688
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: That Phoenix race, you know, he makes contact with Renus.

689
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: Either blame Renus or blame Plow. Whatever it happened, you know,

690
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: you add another what do he get eight points? Maybe

691
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: for that race? You know, give him another twenty and

692
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: now he's up eighteen or twenty and maybe we have

693
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: a different conversation. But this is going to be fun

694
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: to watch. He and Kirkwood, And as I said in

695
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: the first segment, I think it's Kirkwood rather than Lunging

696
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: Guard because I think Kirkwood's going to be better on

697
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 1: the ovals than louh Guard. But I'm not sure either

698
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: one of them are as consistently good on the ovals

699
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: as Plow. But as we saw at Phoenix, anything can

700
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: happen there.

701
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 4: Indy kr Ken says, love listening to the broadcast on

702
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 4: the scanner and all the goings on with the questions

703
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 4: and camera operators. You contact the booth during a break

704
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 4: in Arlington and had info for them. They hadn't realized

705
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 4: when the break was over, the guys brought it up

706
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 4: on air.

707
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 3: Good stuff.

708
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a lot we have to ask to

709
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 4: get our mic turned up, but a lot of times

710
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 4: we do.

711
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 3: Have things. That's why I like being a pit reporter.

712
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 4: I really have not had an interest in being a

713
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 4: sideline reporter for football or basketball, because you're really just

714
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 4: passing along information that everybody got in a meeting on Thursday.

715
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 4: Here we can get up to the minute access and

716
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 4: information by going up and asking someone what's going on

717
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 4: and just simply seeing what's going on. And it's really

718
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 4: just kind of a collective. You know, we all miss

719
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 4: some things, but just kind of looking at hey this,

720
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 4: we think this might going to happen. Did you notice

721
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 4: that so and so maybe sixteenth right now, but they're

722
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 4: not going to have to pit ag in and everybody

723
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 4: else is those kind of things as well. All right,

724
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 4: I'm scrolling back through.

725
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: Well, you've done a really good job over the last

726
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, six to eight to ten years of learning

727
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: why race plays, why races play out the way that

728
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: they do, and who's still got a new set of

729
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: stickers and who's got you know, more fuel, or who's

730
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: already made their last stop or what have you. And

731
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: then you know, different than when you're in the booth.

732
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: You're not talking twenty four to seven, so you've got

733
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: a chance to just kind of be an observer and

734
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: understand why things are happening. I think sometimes you know

735
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: booth guys that you know, they're so in the immediate

736
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: that they can't they can't really take a step back

737
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: the way you can on pit Road.

738
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 4: Got a decent handle on strategy, but it's still challenging.

739
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 4: And what is challenging team people are always going to

740
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 4: be far better about seeing things that we don't see.

741
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: Well, they have they have more monitors, They have more monitors,

742
00:38:59,239 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: you know.

743
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had simulations and a lot you know, that's

744
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 4: their job. They're spending a lot more time on it.

745
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 4: And we're also still thinking.

746
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 3: About Aunt Linda.

747
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 4: You know, we're not going to try to get too

748
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 4: deep into the weeds, and that's going to be kind

749
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 4: of a challenge from us. If Paulo is going to

750
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 4: keep winning races, we're just going to have to start

751
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 4: thinking a little more outside the box. What can we

752
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 4: do to make these entertaining? And I hope that's not

753
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 4: the case. I hope the action on the track is

754
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 4: enough and as long as you get a yellow or two,

755
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 4: then it will play out. But the worst case scenario

756
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 4: is these entire green flag runs, it is.

757
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 3: Difficult to keep them close.

758
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially they added you know, they've essentially added another

759
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: pit stop in that race. You know, yesterday or you have,

760
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: you have an extra stop compared to some other venues,

761
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: and that just adds to the strategy and so forth.

762
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: By the way, we're coming up on twenty years of

763
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: doing this radio show, and I've heard you mentioned Aunt

764
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: Linda several times. Do you actually have an Aunt Linda?

765
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 4: No, this is from our director, Mitch Riggan. He has

766
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 4: reference to Aunt Linda. I do not have an Aunt Linda.

767
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 4: But that's one of the things that Fox brought us.

768
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 4: Bringing in Mitch's background. He's one of the top directors

769
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 4: on Major League Baseball and the NFL for Fox, and

770
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 4: he's been a fan of the Indy five hundred and

771
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 4: lived here for a while, but he would be the

772
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 4: first to admit he wasn't a follower of IndyCar And

773
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 4: we like that. You know, we've got us, We've got

774
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 4: the broadcasters. Pam Miller knows motorsports, he's been in it forever.

775
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 4: But we want a perspective, because you know, we've kind

776
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 4: of seen what the hardcore audience is. It's the people

777
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 4: who watch races on cable, you know, that will go

778
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 4: out of their way to find you. It's three or

779
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 4: four hundred thousand, Well that's not good enough to support

780
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 4: the business needs of the sports.

781
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 3: And even the.

782
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 4: Million you are often getting on network is okay, but

783
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 4: ideally you'd like to grow beyond that. So that's the goal,

784
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 4: and you know it can be it can be annoying

785
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 4: to the hardcore fans when we although I don't know

786
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 4: that we've done things down any you know, we talked

787
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 4: a lot about I still wrestle and we all will.

788
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 4: How much do we talk about tire choices? Is that

789
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 4: too much?

790
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 3: In the weeds?

791
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 4: Ideally we would talk about personalities, but it's also hard

792
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 4: to do that and follow the race because you're there

793
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 4: to document the events. And you know that we saw

794
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 4: that recently in an NCAA game that Dick Vital and

795
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley were on and they basically did a podcast

796
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 4: during it and it's the A tournament game, and that

797
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 4: didn't go over very well. You know, you don't want

798
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 4: to just discuss issues and things like that, you've got

799
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 4: to document the event that you're doing. And I think

800
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 4: talking about which tire you chose, that was what determined

801
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 4: the race. Like David Milucas said, if we would have

802
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 4: started on the hard compound, we might have had a chance.

803
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 4: He didn't really say, I would say he would have

804
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 4: had a chance to finish seconds. He wasn't going to

805
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 4: have a chance to be plow but he might have

806
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 4: had a chance to finish second. And that was kind

807
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 4: of a guess before and you know, sometimes you guess right,

808
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 4: sometimes you guess wrong. So it ended up being the story.

809
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 4: But we do kind of wrestle with that. How much

810
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 4: do we talk tires compared to ideally we'd just love

811
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 4: to see action. But if you don't have action, then

812
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 4: you need to explain the why a little bit more.

813
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: Well you didn't you know, and you do it in

814
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: other sports, but you need to understand why things in

815
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: the second half of the race might be more impactful

816
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: than what we saw in the first half of the race.

817
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,959
Speaker 1: You know, tires and the and the order in which

818
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: you used tires can impact why a driver who runs sixth,

819
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, in the early part of the race might

820
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: be more of a contender when he puts on the

821
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: new set of red tires at the end. Kind of

822
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: the same way of basketball player picks up three fouls

823
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: in the first half, he may not be too impactful

824
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: in the second half. So you know, there is there

825
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: are reasons, and I think those are all good things

826
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: to do. I think that the trick, and you and

827
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: I have talked about this, and I've complained about it,

828
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: is just not to get slang into the end of

829
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: the story so that you know the average the average

830
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: fan just needs to be told and help him understand why.

831
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: You know, tire degradation is an issue, and that's that's

832
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 1: part of the sport. But you're you've gotten really good

833
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: at it and better than me, honestly, and I've been

834
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: doing this now forty years.

835
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Speaker 4: We are less than a month away from the open

836
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 4: test for the Indianapolis five hundred.

837
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 3: We do not know the.

838
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 4: Thirty three or thirty four or however many drivers and

839
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 4: teams will be entered. We have thirty one. We all

840
00:43:55,800 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 4: thought we had thirty two, Andretti has said they plan

841
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 4: on entering a thirty second. They wouldn't say who it was,

842
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 4: but everyone knew it was Coldenharda. It just hadn't been announced,

843
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 4: and I've said this before. Could there be other factors

844
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 4: that preclude him from participating? Do they need a backup plan?

845
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 4: Will they enact a backup plan? So a story just

846
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 4: came out today. So oh, by the way, Starting last week,

847
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 4: rumors started flying that Formula one has canceled there to

848
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 4: April events in the Middle East because of the war,

849
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 4: and those included F two events, so there's been some.

850
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 3: Thought might they add something in well?

851
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 4: Starting last week we all started hearing I don't know

852
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 4: if I've even seen this written anywhere, but I've heard

853
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 4: it mentioned by a lot of people that I would

854
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 4: say have pretty good contacts in the two F one

855
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 4: world that the Canadian Grand Prix is going to include

856
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 4: F two went the Canadian Grand Prix race weekend of Indy.

857
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 4: It's the NDY five hundred day, it's a doubleheader. They

858
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 4: would likely run on Saturday, and because the Canadian Grand Prix,

859
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: I don't think it starts until around four pm Eastern

860
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 4: I believe I remember seeing that that at least they

861
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 4: staggered the event, so it's not on top of the

862
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 4: Indy five hundred, and it would start about the time

863
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 4: the five hundred ends, So that means a support race

864
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 4: is probably going to run at eleven am or something

865
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 4: like that. If he's running F two and that is

866
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 4: the priority, he is not available for the NDY five hundred. Well,

867
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 4: just today a report came out in Racer that says

868
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 4: a Miami round is possibly in the works the first

869
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 4: weekend of May for F two, and it would be

870
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 4: notable because Colton would get to race in America and

871
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 4: there are no other F two races scheduled in America

872
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 4: right now. And it says, you know, they need to

873
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 4: find the paddocks and the time on track because there

874
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 4: were several other support series. This article mentions nothing about

875
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 4: the Canadian Grand Prix. So has something changed from what

876
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 4: we were hearing as recently as Sunday that Colton has

877
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 4: crossed off the list of potential five hundred entries.

878
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: I do not know.

879
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 4: My guess would be and one of the reasons that

880
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 4: F two does not race in America because that's a

881
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 4: significant extra expense. I gotta think if they're going to

882
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 4: vote or fly these cars over to North America for Miami,

883
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 4: they're going to keep them here and they're going to

884
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 4: run the Canadian Grand Prix as well, but I don't

885
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 4: know that because they are scheduled to run in Monaco,

886
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 4: which I think is the week after. Although I guess

887
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 4: if you can get the F one cars back, you

888
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 4: can get the F two cars back, so that's TBD.

889
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 4: If Canadian Grand Prix doesn't run, this Miami event should

890
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 4: not impact Colton. There would be the test on the

891
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 4: twenty eight, twenty nine. He could go the next day

892
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 4: to Miami as long as everyone approved with that. But

893
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 4: if they run the Montreal weekend, he's out. And think

894
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 4: about it this way. I don't think they're going to

895
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 4: put someone in the car just to put him in

896
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,959
Speaker 4: the car, you know. I wondered could Calum i Lot

897
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 4: be there. He has some connections who have connections to

898
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 4: the team, but Callum doesn't bring sponsorship, so this is TWG.

899
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 3: Paying for it.

900
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that they would, So there is a

901
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 4: there's a decent chance that car doesn't run unless they

902
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 4: go back to the idea that I threw against the

903
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 4: wall last fall, and I am purposely not asking my

904
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 4: friend James Hinchcliff. Now, James is a Fox employee, so

905
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 4: I think this would need to be. I think it

906
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 4: would need to be suggested by Eric Shanks. Hey, Hinch,

907
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 4: the event needs you. We want you in a car,

908
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 4: and I've got a plan to replace you in the booth.

909
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 4: But I don't know that he's going to go ask

910
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 4: to do this, because he's smart enough to know that I've.

911
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 3: Got a job and it's a really good job.

912
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 4: But I've said that before, and I'll be honest, I

913
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 4: don't see anyone else out there that ANDRETTI would put

914
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 4: in the car. If it's not Colton heard it, I

915
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 4: may not run. That means that they've got to find

916
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 4: two more just to get to thirty three.

917
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. The only name that popped

918
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: up was a driver who drove for them a couple

919
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: of years ago, and Stephan Wilson's name has kind of

920
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: been circulated a little bit just out there.

921
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 4: So the other names out there, I think Jacob Abel

922
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 4: is pretty likely. I'll be very very surprised at this

923
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 4: point if Prema answers the bell and I think what

924
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 4: the situation is for Able motorspoorts. I believe they have

925
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 4: a chassis, is they need a Chevrolet engine contract. I

926
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 4: believe there's a certain amount of time that Prema is allowed,

927
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 4: and once we get to that date, if they've not committed,

928
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 4: then it's going to be released to the next in

929
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 4: line who is willing to pay the engine lease right then? Now,

930
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 4: that said, the owner of Prema, who has been trying

931
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 4: to sell, could at any time, on a whim say

932
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,919
Speaker 4: here's three million dollars, go run the race, Go hire

933
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 4: the rest of the people you need, build the cars.

934
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 4: But they need to get started right now, because I

935
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 4: would I know they still have some employees. Maybe they

936
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 4: have prepared a car. If so, they'd be ready, but

937
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 4: they need to be able to do that test. If not,

938
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 4: could be able motorsports. Do they add a second one there?

939
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 4: Miles Row was on our list over the weekend. I

940
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 4: asked Miles, who I think is pretty honest with me,

941
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 4: and he just said, I'm telling you no one has

942
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 4: mentioned it, and I'm not going to ask. And I said,

943
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 4: I think that's probably the right approach. They know you

944
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 4: would want to do it, and it's probably best just

945
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 4: to let him know or just just be around. They'll

946
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 4: tell you if they want your services. And I think

947
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 4: a scenario there is if nothing comes together and Penske

948
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 4: has to help fund a thirty third entry, they're more

949
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 4: likely going to choose a driver that they are supporting.

950
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 4: They also, by the way, have a relationship with Able Motorsports.

951
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 4: That's where Miles Row drives with for Cindy. And there's

952
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 4: some connection with Max Garcia with Penske. I don't know

953
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 4: exactly what it is, but he's been on their pitstand

954
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 4: for the last four years and he has a PPG

955
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 4: on board during the races, so there's a family connection

956
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 4: or something. So I think that's probably why Max ended

957
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 4: up with Abel, which has the association with Penske. Catherine

958
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 4: Legg has some budget, Devil and d Francesco could probably

959
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 4: have some budget, and if someone wants to hire someone

960
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 4: Callum Ilot would be available. Same would be true of

961
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 4: Linus Lunquist. But I think you can start looking at

962
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 4: who has budget to be most likely out a time. Yeah, okay,

963
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 4: we'll see what we missed and more coming up in

964
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 4: a moment on trackside.

965
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 5: Hi, this is Graham ray Hall and you're listening to

966
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 5: trackside on ninety three five and one oh seven five

967
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 5: the fan.

968
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 4: Final segment and what we missed the television rating for

969
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 4: Barber's come out in the last couple of hours or so.

970
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 4: First time under a million this year, nine hundred and

971
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 4: six thousand, nine hundred and fourteen thousand last year, So

972
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 4: that's pretty much wash. That might be one different person

973
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 4: when you add up how the ratings are done, so

974
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 4: I know we are all hoping for a million again,

975
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 4: A different way to look at it would be there

976
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 4: were about a half a dozen races last year in

977
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 4: the seven hundred thousands, and Long Beach was five hundred

978
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 4: and fifty two thousand. Also a product of a race

979
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 4: without a caution and someone wins by thirteen seconds, you're

980
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 4: going to have that. If that's on the lower end,

981
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 4: there's going to be a few like that. That's still

982
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 4: a big jump forward, especially to continue to get a

983
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 4: few that are over a million plus the Indy five

984
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 4: hundred as well. Out of time, Monday night next week,

985
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 4: Monday night, seven o'clock. I hope you can join us

986
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 4: here on track side