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upgraded to a boot
“Upgraded to a boot” means they put the driver in a protective brace to stabilize an injured body part. It usually suggests the injury is improving enough to consider racing.
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install laps
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A “new engine” means the team replaced the engine with a fresh one. After that kind of change, they usually need extra track time to make sure it’s installed properly and the car runs well.
It’s a piece of the race car that sits underneath and is shaped to push the car down onto the track. More downforce usually means better grip, especially in corners.
A “tub” is basically the core safety-and-structure part of the race car where the driver sits. It’s the main shell the rest of the car is built around.
Brake components are the parts that make the car slow down. If they’re dialed in, braking is more consistent and the driver can brake later and more confidently.
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spec shot components
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Firestone is the tire brand. Tires are a huge part of how fast a race car can go because they control grip and how the car feels in turns.
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payment at the exit of turn number two
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qualifying vs race setup
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Qualifying trim refers to a race car setup optimized for one-lap speed during qualifying rather than full-race durability. Teams may run more aggressive settings that can reduce tire life or mechanical stability over longer stints.
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Pace laps are the laps right before the race where drivers warm up the car and get ready. It’s still important—something going wrong during these laps can ruin the start.
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Good evening, race fans.
We are on the eve of one of the greatest days in motorsports.
We'll like eve, eve, eve, eve.
But the point stands, greatest weekend racing is finally here.
We are still so back, fellas.
The 8,500 is but a few days away.
Oh, and we've got F1 in Montreal.
And we have the Coke 600.
We're going to touch on at least two of those tonight.
How are we feeling about the greatest day in racing?
Oh, it's going to be great.
Everybody loves it, right?
I mean, Alex, you're going to be there at the track.
Wyatt's going to be there.
Kyle, you're going to be watching on TV, right?
Everybody's going to be watching.
I'll be in the stands.
I can't wait for it.
There's been so much energy at the track already the whole month
that it's been just, we've been tantalizingly close
to this going on.
And qualifying was just kind of an appetizer
to what's going to be the full course meal that it's going
to be the greatest day in racing, of course.
Yes, you've got traditionally Montreal, or not Montreal.
Monaco was your mimosa and eggs to start the day.
The 500 was your main course.
And then you had the Coke 600 as kind of a aperitif,
sort of a per ski, if you will.
Tom, by the way, welcome back.
It's good to see you again.
Oh, thanks, guys.
I appreciate it.
Glad you're here.
You've returned from your duty as a leader in the armed forces.
So thank you for taking time away from that to talk racing.
So yeah, some intrigue, some things happening with the Indy 500.
Those of you who might have been in a cave for the last couple of days,
Alex Ross, he had a pretty big shunt during practice on Monday.
He was set to start second coming up status a little bit up in the air.
I think that's fair to say.
Now, Alex has come out and said, oh, it's just, you know,
minor procedure on a small bone in my ankle.
And I've got this cast on, but it should come off and I'll be good to go.
I've got to be honest, a little skeptical.
Yeah, so I would just open up that Alex, I'll turn it back over to you.
I'm sorry.
I would just say that he can say all he wants about that bone.
I will just throw this out there in 1991.
There was a certain driver in the field in that year's Indianapolis 500
who drove with the broken foot and he didn't tell anybody about it
until he was in Victory Lane and that was Rick Mears.
So there are guys who are fully committed to racing hurt and dealing with it.
I don't know the medical process.
Like, does he have to prove he has to get out of the car, etc.
This is the greatest day in racing for us is watching and covering.
But to then this is the biggest day of their year of their life.
I totally expect him to do everything he can to get into it.
Yeah, 100 percent agree.
And it wouldn't be an episode of the pit straight.
If I didn't bring up to Kuma Sada and say that more recently last year,
you know, that's a driver who got in the car throughout the entire month
of May after a crash very early with two broken ribs and was taking
pain killing injections every day to get into the car and had a car to win the race.
And I think I think led the most laps in 2025, if I'm not mistaken.
So, you know, whether or not Alex is going to.
Who knows who knows what Dr. Julia Visor is going to say.
I think Alex did get upgraded to a boot according to a photo that came out today.
If I'm not falling victim to some kind of misinformation campaign
from somebody in the Honda garage or whatever, it's it's hard to say.
It's it's looking like he's going to be in the number 20.
And it's looking like he's going to start on the front row.
Yeah, that the position P2 starting.
I'm doing whatever it takes to get to the starting line up
and into the grid for the Indianapolis 500.
I this has to be his best chance he's had since he won it, of course,
since 2016 and the hundredth running.
He has a he had fast car.
We're going to see if if he gets any time on car day on Friday
to trim the backup, which he said on his pot on his podcast off track
with the James pinch clip that it's just his car from last year.
So good news is that he's got that car.
He had the car trimmed up from last year, of course.
But now he's got to get used to the handling, especially with how
we're going to see in the unfold this year, especially with all
the unpredictable weather that we might face this weekend.
So what happens if car day comes around and it's a it's a washout?
We already know Friday night events at IRP have been moved to Thursday
because of the weather.
When when does Rossi get a chance to practice to shake that car down?
Make sure everything's put together.
When does the field get another one more day of practice?
They're going to have it there.
If it gets rained out on Friday, guys, that's that's it.
They might get install laps Saturday or Thursday to prayer on the weather.
For those three guys to put the new engine, if they had to put in new
engines just to do that, the Indy car has done that in the past.
But if they do zero laps, then Rossi is going.
His first laps under fire are going to be into turn one
when the green flag comes out on Sunday.
Well, so it wasn't it wasn't a Chevy's plan, though, to put all new engines
and in their cars for carb day already, though.
That was already the plan that at least Rossi had said on the podcast, of course.
And so it's not really a lost engine from that massive shut into the wall
and turn out of turn two.
But it's more of the car in general is the biggest challenge
that Rossi is going to have to face, even though, again, they've
had it had a trend from last year, just getting used to the handling
of that car once again after a long, long month of May.
And I also wanted to bring up here not to be one of those fans and be like,
well, actually, there's also Detroit the next week.
But there is a question to looking past this week as well.
Like, is he going to also be good for the summer, just in general?
Because we're about to go on a huge gauntlet here.
And he doesn't look like he's going to be able to do a full tweak like that.
I am curious to tell you, you know, it's not really
any of our business what his injury is other than, you know, we're in the
median we like to speculate and, you know, he's a public figure and an athlete.
And you can't, you know, there's that weird like balance.
I'm genuinely curious to know what on earth is a minor procedure
on your on a small bone in your ankle that requires surgery.
But yet you're going to be OK.
Like, and what happened in the car?
Did he like, did he step funny getting out of the car?
Because they mentioned on the broadcast, he was limping as he was going to the
safety vehicle. Did he hop out and land weirding to like just like sprained his ankle?
Or did his crash was pretty violent?
What did he smack his foot against in the car?
And are there, you know, is Indy car going to take a look at that?
I know that's something that happened after Robert Wiggins had his crash at
Pocono. They took that car apart and went, OK, here's what happened.
Not just his back, but the the fire bottle broke loose in his car and broke his legs.
And to Laura and Indy car looked at that and OK, we got to make a change.
So I think anytime a driver gets hurt like that, you know, not a wrist,
not a finger, something that gets trapped in a steering wheel.
I think Indy car and to Laura have to take a look at what factors impacted
that injury and are they going to be, you know, how proactive can they be in the next?
Week to 10 days to try to, you know, to effort a fix.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, and, you know, we also need to not to be like morbid or pessimistic here,
not pessimistic because Rossi is OK and he got out of the car and all that.
But spinning around driver's side out of turn one, two,
these are impacts that have killed people at this track multiple times.
And aside from that, we've heard of accidents across racing series
in the past where, you know, the impact was so violent,
I got my foot stuck under the pedal or, you know, I got I broke a finger
or a wrist because I couldn't get my hand out of the steering wheel in time.
It's it I share your intrigue 100 percent Kyle about
what what is this tiny bone that requires an outpatient procedure
that then leaves you in a full cast and then a boot.
But yeah, you know, and it was I don't know.
It was certainly something enough for them to transport him to the hospital
that day, which, you know, there's some he seems to think he's going to race.
I wouldn't, you know, doubt his intention of racing,
whether or not he's cleared medically.
We'll see. And if he's not, that poses the question.
Who steps in the car and if Carb Day is a wash.
What happens then?
Does Indy car go? OK, we really need to have 33 cars on the grid.
We're you get R. O. P. Saturday.
That's that's what's going to have to happen.
They're going to have so if I think they have some sort of
history or some process like with Kyle Larson, they had to run
Tony Cannan, I think, through a refresher.
He had to go through a mandatory refresher as a stand in in case
Kyle Larson had to go to Charlotte,
at least the last year that Larson ran it.
I don't think they were able to do it the first year
because they weren't really sure about that rule.
So if somebody is going to step in, they're going to have to run a refresher
and get behind the wheel.
I don't just off top of my head because we didn't have 34 drivers.
We have 35 cars.
So there's not an additional dude or girl who has gone through.
Right. So it was easy when who did Graham Ray Hall step in for the year?
He got hurt in Wilson.
Yeah. I'm sorry.
Ray Hall got bumped and then somebody got hurt.
Yeah. Yeah.
Stefan Wilson. So that would be a situation, but they don't have that here.
So they're going to have to go find a Callum.
I lot of Lina's Lundquist.
Maybe even I don't think Schwarzman is even in the country.
I don't know, you know, so it could be somebody like that
who at least has ran Callum probably the best.
Right. I don't know if he has to do a refresher since he ran last year.
I don't think he was still under contract with Prima.
Prima still exists legally.
I know the conversation is going to go there.
But the Indy star at least has reported that Callum
I lot will not be an option there.
Lina's Lundquist is in Indianapolis all throughout this month.
OK, yeah, we've seen him around.
He's pretty much helmet in hand, ready to go.
I think he would be the best happens.
Yeah, as you know, as our most drivers looking for I
well, let's let's bring in our good buddy, Chris,
who's an Indy car insider, if there ever was one,
maybe he's got some insight. Christopher, what do you know?
Not enough.
I remember I remember that line from Cheers.
So I have to have to bring that up.
So to go off of what was said earlier,
Callum I lot to me is the best option for this position.
Now, I know he is certainly on a contract from Prima.
I mean, that's a race seat contract that he's got underneath.
Got signed for Prima.
I mean, that's what we would all assume it would be.
Oh, wait a minute, they haven't raced this year.
So is that contract even valid technically because legally?
He has us.
Paul Tracy ran into that when they did the merger
with Forsyre Racing, they wouldn't let him out.
That is true.
But my my old thinking is, you know, I have a contract in place to race.
I haven't done that.
Therefore, this contract is not worth the paper it is printed on.
So the way I see it,
it would be probably in Prima's best interest to let Callum do this
when they haven't shown up at all this year.
They haven't even put out any statement
saying that they're going to show up this year.
And it would be it would just be really, really, really good PR
if they would just let Callum do this
because they're not missing anything by letting him do this.
So to go back to something else that Wyatt had mentioned earlier about Rossi's car.
So Rossi also mentioned on the off track podcast with James Hinchcliffe
that the underfloor underwing and the front wing that Rossi will be racing with
were actually tested at the open test in April.
So it looks like.
So what I'm thinking, what happened was the actual tub
that he used at the open test was his 500 car.
But with backup pieces, they were just checking to make sure we're going to be just fine.
The tub that he drove that he will be driving this coming Sunday,
assuming he's cleared and all that good stuff is taking place
is actually the tub that he drove in last year's race, like Wyatt mentioned,
but was also also importantly the tub that he used in last October's test
at the Speedway when he was testing out the new brake components,
the possible spec shot components and the new Firestone tires
and testing out the new payment at the exit of turn number two.
It's a car that they have knowledge of.
But of course, there's all the little minutiae of wondering
how the measurements are going to be with the body work and things like that.
But as Rossi mentioned on the podcast,
that those little itty bitty minor details you spend months working on
are only good for qualifying.
They don't mean a thing in the race.
So you don't have to really worry about, oh, is this little bitty bit of the body?
We're just so like high above.
No, not going to be a problem here.
Yes, it would cost you a lot of positions on the grid in qualifying trim
when you're trying to put this thing together for qualifying.
But for the race, you're being on the show, you're fine.
It's more about mechanical grip and making sure your tires last in anything.
Yeah, you got to make sure the car functions.
I mean, it's got Dixon last year caught fire on the pace laps.
Yeah, them's the brakes.
Yeah, well, I was one in one last year, too.
Yeah, that was a stop cart, a pissed off practice car.
They built that thing up and show card 1.2 if I'm not mistaken.
I'm pretty sure it was.
But like, yeah, the good was this 1987 all over again.
Come on, guys, I know, right?
Well, the good thing for him, though, was that with that car,
it wasn't a case of they had to do necessarily a whole lot of actual construction.
It was just a case of you could actually it was just the back of the tub is where
the issue was with the engine mounts with the fire that they had on Hunter raised
car like you don't have to worry about trying to re get all a lot of the body
worked on suspension like I was like, because you can just transfer that stuff
over from the race car to the pit card, no problem if it wasn't burned.
I think to me, it's like, dude, if I'm getting in a brand new car that I haven't
touched and I haven't even made it go this month before the green flag waves,
race car drivers, I mean, they are a specific type of breed of human being, right?
What is the confidence level in that guy to stick it?
Because the very last time he would have been on the track trying to get a car
to stick in a turn, he spun and crashed.
So I am just I would I just look at it like, dude, what's he going to feel like?
What's that car going to feel like without running?
And he could be, you know, it's fine, which would be a great question to ask
me at carb day if they don't run, but that's that's just how I see it.
I think they're going to try the carbonate session early, if I will say this,
they're going to try to run that session earlier in the day, if there if the
weather is a factor like everyone thinks it will be 10 or something.
His crash was driver error that I was running too slow when I was in dirty air
and I just lost it.
You know, he's in he's an 8500 champion.
Yeah, you know, he's going to say sail it off down there into
turtle one and hope it sticks and come the other side and away you go.
I mean, it's, you know, he's they are uncommon folks doing uncommon things.
Mm hmm.
There was talk that maybe even a bump was was to blame for that as well.
Not the one that they fixed and turned to, but a separate bump that was not
touched as well.
Now, what about this Kyle Lawson guy?
I mean, he is Speedway eligible.
One more time, Kyle.
It's all time to tell Alex's head is going to explode.
All right.
Given how Aaron McLaren have been with their fourth car this year,
it would probably be an upgrade going to ECR this year.
I am exhausted.
Oh, we got it.
He's exhausted.
Already go car at 22 minutes.
So Alex flow, best car all month.
Fair to say.
It's sitting on the bull.
I wouldn't say that he let the charts more than once.
Not the best with a capital B.
No, I don't think you have to have speed to be the best.
I mean, this guy just he got the pole.
He looks really good and confident.
I mean, he's the defending champ and he has like lady luck on his shoulders.
Yeah.
He talked about where we know that every car every guy ever.
He taught the one session where we know everybody is going as fast as they can.
Exactly, that that's the key.
Yeah.
And as we saw last year, I mean, I deserving winner for sure.
It's not like he fluked into it.
But there were multiple points of the race
last year where different drivers had the car to win.
And the 500 thing that makes this race, the best race on the planet
is that anybody in the field can win if the brakes go their way.
The right strategy at the right time, things unfold in a certain manner.
And, you know, and all of a sudden a guy like Ryan Hunter raise
got the pace and the strategy to win in a one off car.
You know, you had 2018.
Steph Wilson and Jack Harvey, Oriel Serbia,
Oriel Serbia, like you had three guys who were they needed a late caution.
And they were going to win.
I think was a Stingray Robin 2023, if I'm not mistaken.
24 Stingray Robin was leading and Nolan was going crazy.
I mean, in the race off strategy.
Yeah.
But, you know, coming up, somebody could be be on the cusp and need to, you know,
like Rossi did in 2016, just pedal it to try to get to the end.
And I think, you know, there are people who have been to the speedway and walked
those hallowed grounds, no, that place has an aura.
It just does.
And there's, you know, there's kind of a tradition and, you know,
something that people whisper, the speedway picks its winner.
We can predict and prognosticate and discuss all we want.
But at the end of the day,
we have no idea how those 500 miles are going to unfold.
But somebody's life is going to change on Sunday.
And I think that's really cool.
I think one big point, too, is that Mr.
Pillow, who starts on Paul,
one thing that's working against him is the trends and the trends say in the DW
12 era that there's been only one winner from the poll.
And that was Simon Pajano in 2018.
19, 19, 19.
Thank you.
But it's pillow we're talking about the end of the day here.
It's it's tough because
because of the guy that's won this race the year before.
We're looking at maybe potentially back to back, back to back winners.
Joseph Newgarden, who got to in a row before this.
Now, it's below who's on the cusp of doing this as well.
But there might be one guy and one guy on that front row that I think
is going to get it done.
And it's this guy right here.
David Maluchus finished second last year.
Yes, sir.
Well, in reality, third, I've been second.
Hey, he started up the rally.
I can't really speak.
No, you're right.
Last tricks.
Every time you think below is Pete, he always finds a way to somehow send
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
I will say one guy to really look out for is going to be Newgarden because
it's going to be really fun to see him try to haul ass through the field.
He looked good in the practice session.
And even though he started in the back, I mentioned this in the preview piece I wrote
for the 500, he was up to sixth when his mechanical failure took him out of the race
last year, so.
And he was on the move too.
You're right.
He was coming.
So, first of all, that was insane to see that Danny Sullivan crashed behind over
your shoulder there, Kyle.
It's still just weird to me at how we just went to the wall like that in 93.
Anyway, I recorded another another podcast today.
And on that podcast, we had a lot, a laundry list of predictions that we were
going to make for the race.
And one of those predictions was who was going to be the worst finisher from the
front row?
I've got a weird feeling that something's going to happen to Alex on race day.
Either it's going to be a wheel nut or on a bad pit stop, or I think he's going
to get boxed in somewhere.
Something I just think is going to.
He doesn't race for Andretti.
It's not going to be a pit stop.
Boom, roasted.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I was like, I've got this fifth sense that it's just something's going to happen
to him. Well, he's on fire last year.
That is that is something that happened to Alex.
Hello, not Rossi.
Hello, you're two hours on the front row this year.
Alex is no, there's an Alex and an Alexander.
I'm going to try and there's an Alex right here.
Yeah, and not an Alexander.
Thank you.
So what is the concern?
I just, I just think that just his luck is going to have to run out at some point.
And I think his luck is going to run out on Sunday,
who I think has the best car, honestly, Rosenquist on that other podcast.
That's why I picked to win.
If I was told to make a dark horse pit, Connor Daly,
he's extremely confident in that car.
And I think he is really, really excited about the piece that he has underneath
them and that kind of confidence is rewarded a lot of times.
Sometimes it's not, sometimes it's you get, you get knocked down a peg or two.
But from what he's experienced on track this month or this week,
rather week and a half, I honestly think Connor Daly could be a great dark horse
pick for this race.
Palo, the fact that matters with Palo with him getting that pole run,
he had the guts to trim it out as far as he dared.
And Julian Robertson was willing to give that
degree of trim to Alex and they both made it happen.
Chris, I got a very specific question for you.
Do you know when the last time was the first four starters of the Indy 500 had
all driven for the same team previously?
I'm going to have to go, I'd have to go back.
Can you give me a decade range?
Not a clue. I don't know if there's an answer.
I'm asking you to do the Rain Man thing.
Pop quiz, but you have to come up with the answer.
I got to go through the start.
I got to go through all the various starting grids here. Wow.
Not one here.
No, not last year.
They call it on Reddit.
What does that front row?
Yes, the American rejects.
Yeah, the first drivers have all been at one point or another under contract
with McLaren racing.
Now Palo's, you know, never it turned a wheel in anger.
Neither. Well, Malukas, I guess, I guess.
I guess when when Penske, when Penske swept the front row, it was fourth.
That's it.
So, OK, so, OK, so I'm looking back at it now.
OK, let's see.
OK, so in 1988,
you had you had years, Sullivan and an answer on the front row in fourth place.
In fourth place was Mario Andretti.
He was a Penske driver.
And in fifth place, who would become a Penske driver was Alan Sir, Jr.
OK, close enough, close enough.
I am exhausted.
That's twice.
OK, before we lose, before we lose Alex completely, we are going to detour
north of the border.
F1 makes an early stop to Montreal, you know,
Monaco is great, Crown Jewel.
I think we all agree the racing is very boring because the cars are now too big
for that track.
Does does F1 in Montreal as kind of your your middle carry over to get us
from Indy to Charlotte?
Does this improve the day or does it take away some of the cachet of the greatest
day in racing?
As long as it doesn't rain at Indy.
That's a big thing.
We really don't need that bleeding over in the Montreal.
Yeah, you know, I mean,
it's fine, I guess.
It's fine, whatever.
It's it's I'm I've been skewered in the comments section once or twice for my
my opinions on Monaco, so I won't harp on about those.
I would rather F1 house stuck in Europe somehow.
I would take the Spanish.
I would take like Barcelona over Montreal just because the.
I was going to say we're going from the Wall Street ways to arguably the best
street ways in Formula One, so.
It's just the same.
The timing can't work out.
Yeah, that's all about the time.
It does does seem a bit intentional that the FIA was like, you know, let's go race
on Memorial Day in North America.
There's nothing else going on.
So the Montreal promoters, the problem with that.
Like supposedly, you know, this was the big thing.
They're French.
Yeah, they're French is a little bit Montreal is a great it's a great city.
Montreal, a great track, great facility.
They don't like Americans up there having been.
They will pretend like their restaurant is not open, even though there are plenty
of seats, plenty of people in the restaurant.
Sorry, we're closed.
I could think of several restaurants that pretend to be closed when they see me
coming.
Yes, it is.
None of them are a monster, though.
It is not like what I think it is.
Well, like there's a story, too, that like Montreal was in discussions to get a
couple of years ago before they were recently and the big stuff.
The promoter's big sticking point was we wanted on Saturday afternoon.
Oh, yeah.
And that's called was like, no, we're not doing that.
So, yeah, like the Montreal promoters are a bit of a head case to deal with.
And it's like the problem is that Miami's
stuck word is and it doesn't make sense to go to Miami, get everybody to Europe
and then get everybody back to Montreal.
Yeah, so it's sustainability, but it's in the way.
A little bit of intrigue in the F1
and Paddock looks like Esteban O'Conn could be without a seat.
According to the rumor mill,
yeah, might be might be on the outs.
Ten seconds, and the season progresses.
Esteban O'Conn on the outs with his waist team.
Well, if I hold this, I haven't heard that at all.
Everywhere, absolutely.
What a coincidence that every teammate
and the guy's head doesn't like him.
Like, all of a sudden, it sounds like he might be people at Haasman that like him.
I mean, you're the next driver in Indy car.
And like, the thing is, like,
Behrman's really good, like, Behrman is probably going to be a future
waste winner with four whenever Lewis decides to retire.
But like, I'm looking at this like,
Behrman's beat him 16 out of 10 times, but with the finish of GP.
16 out of 10.
No, 16 to 10.
I'm sorry, 16 out of 10.
This is some amazing numbers.
Yeah, great.
I'm not great at math.
It's better now.
North Korean numbers.
How's he keep it?
North Korea.
Like, keep in mind, too, that Haas,
Oscar, Ocon to be kind of like a solid vent one, and he's not doing that at all.
Like, like he's really underperforming.
I think when they are actually both, when they both finish their ways,
Behrman's average finish is three spots higher than Ocon's.
Well, so, you know, Haas is paying all this money to Ocon and he's not performing
and nobody likes him at the factory.
So getting out driven by your second driver is never good for the career.
Yeah, you're 19 year old special.
I think he's like 20 or something.
But yeah, I think I think you would be 20 now.
Yeah, it's one of those great things about Formula One is that you do get driver
changes midseason.
You don't really see that in don't really see that in any car.
You don't really see that in NASCAR.
You don't really see that in sports cars unless, you know,
the bride buyer doesn't pay his bill or you drive.
But in F1, or you drive for your own driver, and you get a second car on the bus.
But in F1, they're like, yes, sir, you're not you're not cutting it next man up,
which I think it's kind of neat.
Everybody get on the real hero, Kyle Train.
Oh, boy.
Kyle, Kyle, freaking Nolan Segal seats pretty hot still.
Good landing spot for Ed Sparman.
Oh, yeah, yeah, Leonardo GP2 or no, Formula 2 champion Leonardo Foneroli was
actually spotted Australia, McLaren's area.
So hey, maybe the Indian GP too.
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
Ocon could come over and race at Indy for bossy.
I don't think they can do that though.
No, he's never done an oval race.
He would not.
No, he has to do a high speed oval test first before he has to do R.O.P.
I think it was a joke.
Yes, it did.
Yeah, they have a decent list of options they have.
Do Han, Jack Do Han is the lead resolve driver.
They've got Toyota drivers like what Alex said.
We are here with Kawa, Tomomoyada,
UGED, they could go get these days.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Also, I love that Alex didn't even notice me slipping UGED.
I heard you sleep in UGED.
Yes, I am exhausted.
All right, that's that's three.
It's 33 minutes and 33 seconds.
We've got that's actually four.
I said one of them at one point.
Greatest point.
Yeah, greatest bike has ever.
That's our cue to wrap up.
Well, and there's also there's also the four.
We was all driver.
I'm not sure if they want to go to Antony or Joe Bonazzi and they want to get
somebody who's experienced and can, you know, finish races.
I love the private Ryan.
The big thing with Joe Bonazzi and
Hira Kawa is WEC, because they would have to basically give up the WEC wives.
Now, now, Finley, is Joe Bonazzi driving for Toyota in WEC?
No, but he's driving for Fawley, I think, right?
I'm not sure.
But the hero cow is like properly in the Toyota camp.
And it would make sense to me that if Toyota wants to expand their presence
with us, they would want, you know, this is kind of like a trend with Toyota and
Honda's, they want Japanese representation in their racing.
You know, yeah.
I just don't because Toyota is in good position to potentially win another
championship at WEC. It's just are you going to get out from that?
I was just throwing up Joe Bonazzi because, obviously, for the viewers that don't
know, Haas's engine pole knows with Fawley.
So, yes, you know, they've got that connection.
And apparently Joe Bonazzi's there only was a driver, too, because I went and looked.
The only one listed, so.
Makes me feel old.
Yeah, all of that.
The second biggest race week, biggest race of the week,
Montreal GP.
Number one is the F2 feature race, which is starting at 1220.
That's an excellent idea by F1 so that nobody can watch that.
That's definitely been demoted.
That's that's that you've been demoted.
I'm giving Blackburn your spot on the screen.
Nobody's nobody's nobody's.
Well, that's it.
There you go.
Well, hey, the F2 race will have Colton Hora.
Isn't everybody so happy he got to waste this weekend in Montreal?
It's like, Kyle, look down on this man.
Like the Brady Bunch.
Brady Bunch.
All right.
The shark has officially been jumped.
OK, this has gotten out of hand.
It has gotten out of hand.
We're off the rails.
We are. We are off the rails.
We are in the grass backwards, headed to the tires.
All right, final thoughts.
Any last second predictions, Indy?
What do we expect? What do you think?
What are we? What can we expect from the Atrack?
Journalists this weekend, Alex, you are leading that contingent of fearless
keyboard warriors.
Yes, and isn't that great because I am exhausted.
we're going to the first thing we're going to do is we're going to spend a lot of
money at the memorabilia show in Plainfield.
Naturally.
And and then we'll figure out the rest as we go.
But but in reality, when we when we talked to post qualifying,
the names that we singled out as names we were watching were Centino Ferrucci,
Connor Daley, David Maluchus.
Chris, who did who did you have your eye on?
Rosenquist.
Rosenquist, that's right.
We're going to be following everything.
We're going to have our fearless.
I like to refer to him as Canon fodder, but it's not very, very professional.
Titled to be determined.
Brian Nolan on the on the ground with us running around like a chicken with his head
cut off when instructed to do so.
And it's the it's the greatest race in the world and we are going to do our best to
do it. It's justice.
Well, we look forward to reading everything you guys write, seeing all the
videos you generate, gentlemen, have a wonderful time at the racetrack.
Four of four of the contingent will be there.
I will be watching from home.
Finley, I assume, you know, we'll pull you away from the F2 race.
At some point, you can, you know, you can join the festivities in Indy, but, you
know, we'll reconvene because Indy car goes racing again next week.
I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about post Sunday.
Chris, yes.
So if you want to do this by proxy.
2024 Indy, 500
Pesky locked out the front row.
Fourth place, fourth place, Alexander
Ross, oh my God, sorry.
Alexander Ross, he drove for team Petsky and Imsa.
Oh, oh, so did Graham Ray Hall.
Kyle.
Are you just awesome to balance?
Come on, Kyle.
You look like the picture of the guy just standing there with a cigarette.
The air is screaming at me.
All right.
So, yeah.
But the question was, have, have the first four spots ever been filled by drivers
of the same former team?
Well, I'm not.
OK, so I mentioned 1988 earlier, so that was Mario Andretti being
in starting fourth and he was formerly a Petsky driver.
And then fifth place, Alexander Jr.
He was going to become a Petsky driver.
I literally, by the way, if anyone's watching this on YouTube later on,
the reason why you look at, see me looking at the right hand side,
I was going through the Wikipedia starting grid of every single race,
just trying to see if there's somehow a way to figure it out.
But he's deliberate, folks, if he's not anything, he's very deliberate.
If there is one thing that I commit to above all else, it is the bit.
It's true. And on that note,
good night.
We will see.
Play this off, Kyle.
Thanks for watching for Alex and Wyatt and Chris and Michael and Tom.
I'm Kyle Benjamin.
We'll talk to you on the pit straight the next time we reconvene.
See y'all later.
See y'all on the track.
About this episode
Hosts kick off with Indy 500/Coke 600 weekend hype while weighing whether Alex Rossi’s ankle issue is truly minor and what happens if practice gets rained out. They dig into Rossi’s Indy setup—wings tested in April and a familiar tub—plus the possibility of Callum Ilott landing the seat. The conversation widens to why the Indy 500 stays unpredictable, then pivots to Montreal GP timing and driver rumor chatter, including Esteban Ocon.
