Indycar Season 2025 Thread

Indycar race just started, straight into a turn 1 accident and full course yellow.

Does bug me that fuel saving is a thing in most motorsports now. They are already talking about it how it will effect strategy.
 
Mad_Jay said:
Indycar race just started, straight into a turn 1 accident and full course yellow.

Does bug me that fuel saving is a thing in most motorsports now. They are already talking about it how it will effect strategy.
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They added ten laps to the race distance to try and stop it being a fuel saving race. Doesn't look like it's going to work.
 
Nascar is about to start though, the xfinity race yesterday was brilliant in the rain.

There's just something about big V8 lumps, rednecks and street tracks :D They don't mess about with fuel saving, it's flat out all the time.
 
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Even Palou got bored of winning and drove off the track :p

Got to be some backstory to what has gone on at Penske, since the Indy 500 scandal and fallout they've only finished in the top 5 once across 3 cars!
 
Upset with himself for making a mistake. Still extended his Championship lead which now sits at 113 points with 7 races remaining. Given you get 50 points for a win, we'll need some DNF's or at the very least some Palou disasterclass performances for anyone to make a go of catching him. We need Kirkwood and O'Ward to be pushing him well down the order into the mid-high teens as well as one of them getting near maximum points to make this stand any chance of lasting beyond the end of this month.
 
Good race at Iowa for the first of the double header. I won't say who won, but I'm happy.

I'm starting to think that the Penske downfall was manufactured as part of their cheating scandal and to push them down a bit from the front.
 
I imagine Newgardens mood going home from Iowa was rather annoyed! Clearly the best car in both races and won neither through no fault of his own.
 
Looking like another Palou walkover at Laguna Seca, likely to win yet another Indycar Title - here's one though - as much success as he's had in Indycar how do you think he would fare in F1?

Obviously in recent years there isn't a great record of drivers coming across from Indy and actually acheiving much of anything in F1; Villeneuve in 96/97 aside maybe (and to be honest as soon as he wasn't in a clearly way ahead Williams he didn't exactly excel) and obviously Montoya looked fast at time if ultimately inconsistent.

Palou never looked like a future great during his (limited) European racing career and even in Japan had a best Championship finish of 3rd - it'll probably never happen, at 28 he's probably seen as too old to be an F1 rookie and even Cadillac don't seem to be too bothered about picking an Indycar driver for their team (and presumably would pick an American anyway...).
 
chrismscotland said:
Looking like another Palou walkover at Laguna Seca, likely to win yet another Indycar Title - here's one though - as much success as he's had in Indycar how do you think he would fare in F1?

Obviously in recent years there isn't a great record of drivers coming across from Indy and actually acheiving much of anything in F1; Villeneuve in 96/97 aside maybe (and to be honest as soon as he wasn't in a clearly way ahead Williams he didn't exactly excel) and obviously Montoya looked fast at time if ultimately inconsistent.

Palou never looked like a future great during his (limited) European racing career and even in Japan had a best Championship finish of 3rd - it'll probably never happen, at 28 he's probably seen as too old to be an F1 rookie and even Cadillac don't seem to be too bothered about picking an Indycar driver for their team (and presumably would pick an American anyway...).
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I think his F1 ship has sailed. As has Herta's. Colton would likely have needed to either win or come second to get enough Superlicence points anyway. if Cadillac aren't considering him now, and he probably was considered and then disregarded, no one else will be getting an F1 seat direct from Indycar for a long, long time without there being some sort of cross series team interest as there is for McLaren. Even then, other than reserve driver roles, I can't see O'Ward getting an F1 seat unless there is a major falling out between McLaren and either Norris or Piastri. I'd love Chip Ganassi to try and get him into the Rookies test at Abu Dhabi though, especially as it's going to be all change next season with the new Regs.
 
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The attempt at faux drama at the beginning of the broadcast made me laugh - Will Pato win the title? He's right back in it! All he needs to do is outscore Palou by 30 points/race and it's down to the wire!

Utter nonsense. Before the Laguna GP the gap was 100 (I think) points, which isn't that far off the largest gap it had been all season so whilst Pato did take points off Palou in Toronto he didn't, and doesn't stand a chance of winning the title.

chrismscotland said:
Looking like another Palou walkover at Laguna Seca, likely to win yet another Indycar Title - here's one though - as much success as he's had in Indycar how do you think he would fare in F1?
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I think had he not backed out on his signed Arrow McLaren contract I think we would have found out and I think he would have held is own but wouldn't be as much of a top contender as he's been in IndyCar.
 
the-evaluator said:
The attempt at faux drama at the beginning of the broadcast made me laugh - Will Pato win the title? He's right back in it! All he needs to do is outscore Palou by 30 points/race and it's down to the wire!

Utter nonsense. Before the Laguna GP the gap was 100 (I think) points, which isn't that far off the largest gap it had been all season so whilst Pato did take points off Palou in Toronto he didn't, and doesn't stand a chance of winning the title.



I think had he not backed out on his signed Arrow McLaren contract I think we would have found out and I think he would have held is own but wouldn't be as much of a top contender as he's been in IndyCar.
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I also believe he got a substantial pay rise on a new contract as well. McLaren were talking about quadrupling his wages with the deal they had on the table.
 
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