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Q: Is VeeKay’s seat at JHR the improve from Coyne everybody was saying hr was headed to earlier than the dominos began to fall?
Steve, Ohio
MARSHALL PRUETT: It’s not, which is why the JHR staff went after VeeKay to try to use his abilities to rework the staff into a greater model of itself. He was mightily spectacular at Dale Coyne Racing and that clearly caught the eye of Brad Hollinger, who co-owns and funds JHR, and Ricardo Juncos, who was integral in creating VeeKay on the open-wheel ladder previous to Hollinger’s arrival in 2021.
Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how VeeKay fares at JHR with out savant race engineer/technical director Michael Cannon, who was the opposite half of the equation at Coyne. Congrats to Michael, BTW, on being inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Corridor of Fame.
Q: Thanks for answering final week’s query from Jerry in Houston about drivers’ pay. Particularly, how paying drivers receives a commission whereas paying to be in a seat.
A number of years in the past I helped fund an up-and-coming driver in what was Professional 2000 on the time. I’ve realized loads concerning the behind the scenes going-ons of which you detailed in your well-described reply. I’m probably not asking a query right here, however reiterating your reply and declaring the ignorance or naïvety (not insulting anybody, simply declaring the final lack of know-how) of many unfavorable on-line chats stating some drivers are solely there due to “daddy’s” or household cash.
Whereas this cash half is true for some, (and these drivers are the truth is gifted), others should endure all of the situations you describe. For the lower than super-wealthy households, they often get to a degree that if the child is sweet sufficient, they’ve already mortgaged the home climbing the ladder. If dad and mom and child handle to search out the wanted cash to proceed, and one or all of the conditions you describe occur to them, the results will typically have a big impact in your season, as your staff is compelled to chop again, you’re out scrambling to search out new funding to maintain the seat, and many others. Add to this that drivers not within the very rich household class are sometimes on the smaller groups in higher want of assets than the massive groups.
Backside line is it makes it that a lot more durable to be aggressive in a extremely aggressive sequence the place 0.010 of a second matter, and something above mid-pack, fifteenth or higher, (above the paid driver group) is a aim. Actuality in the long run is cash/assets, long run, is what builds a number one staff. The smaller youthful groups are preventing the more durable battle not solely on race day, however annually to keep up, and attempt to construct their packages. For sure whereas each different staff, huge and small, are doing precisely the identical factor. The extra you study, the deeper your appreciation.
Lastly, thanks RACER for Robin’s Ultimate Phrase. All of us want a “slap within the face”, (or two), at times!
Zenith
MP: As I used to be developing the racing ladder as a mechanic, I largely labored with paying drivers, which is the norm. We love the youngsters firing up by the USF Championships and Indy NXT, however 99 % of them are driving automobiles paid for by family and friends by private wealth, the proceeds from a enterprise their dad and mom or mates of the household personal, or another technique devised to pay groups the tons of of hundreds of {dollars} wanted on the USF2000 degree to greater than 1,000,000 per season required for NXT.
Solely within the rarest of situations will you discover a child in a pre-IndyCar seat that’s funded by the staff, which suggests the ‘daddy’s cash’ tag is or has been worn in some unspecified time in the future by nearly each driver we all know in the present day in IndyCar, NASCAR, F1, and so forth. The distinction right here, although, within the IndyCar instance, is when a few of these paying drivers graduate by shopping for a seat, run behind the sector, and change into considered as little greater than a strolling paycheck.
They maintain worth in an financial sense, and due to them, groups which are unskilled at discovering full sponsorship to fund all of their automobiles can depend on the partial or full budgets delivered to them by a paying driver. These groups are in a position to make use of 12-20 people who find themselves connected to that driver’s entry, and that’s typically an important contribution introduced by nearly all of paying drivers.
Dozens of individuals feed their households and put their children by college on account of the earnings delivered by these drivers. I used to be in that state of affairs as soon as once I was a crew member in IndyCar, and it kills the soul, but in addition, hopefully, evokes you to do higher, goal increased, or look outdoors of the game for one thing extra fulfilling.
However there’s no denying how unusual and ill-fitting it’s to take a look at 27 particular person IndyCar entries – name them groups – and contemplate that no less than two or three of these 27 drivers are solely within the sequence due to their means to purchase their manner into the sport. And by that, I imply they might be out of the sequence instantly if their funding disappeared.
Might you think about two or three of the 32 NFL groups placing quarterbacks on the sector who’re solely there as a result of they pay tens of millions to play the sport? It’s an absurd idea in stick-and-ball sports activities, however not in skilled racing. It’s nothing new right here, after all, however, as IndyCar had in 2025, when the three drivers who completed on the backside of the championship had been paying drivers, I can perceive why some of us aren’t loving the look.
This could possibly be you! (For a worth). Joe Skibinski/Penske Leisure
Q: It has been written that Will Energy remains to be underneath contract to Penske till January. What are his restrictions and limitations concerning any sort of involvement and interplay with the Andretti group?
Can he have any interplay together with his new staff?
Steve, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
MP: Since Will hasn’t despatched me his Penske contract to assessment, I can solely go off of generalisms. He’s bought a non-compete clause, which suggests he can’t interact with a brand new employer till that agreed-upon window of exclusivity to Penske expires. No planning with Andretti. No simulator time or testing with Andretti/Honda. No knowledge or setup critiques with Andretti. No hanging out at Andretti’s store and fellowshipping with the crew, and many others. All of these issues are forbidden, by contract, till the non-compete expires.
However all of these issues are adhered to on the distinction system, proper? Once I’ve learn of earlier non-competes, the query I at all times ask is how a staff with a driver, engineer, or supervisor underneath a non-compete would be capable of monitor the communications of the one that’s meant to be immobilized through the blackout interval.
In a world the place VPNs and burner telephones are commonplace, how precisely would Crew X be capable of stop Crew Y from doing all-day Zooms with Driver Z in the event that they made an effort to go incognito? We all know racing groups and producers spend cash yearly on what could be frivolously known as espionage; at a minimal, they rent individuals to {photograph} and movie one another’s automobiles to check and distinction chassis setup decisions with their very own automobiles.
Wouldn’t it be so unusual to recommend that since groups put money into spying on one another on the observe, some may additionally put money into countermeasures to cover and defend their communications away from the observe? These are the issues I ponder about through the offseason…
Q: Is there something to be learn into the liveries on automobiles at assessments? For instance, Malukas testing a generically Penske-wrapped No.12 automobile with no sponsors, or Palou testing an all-black No.10 automobile? I’ll say Palou was sporting his conventional DHL racesuit. Do the liveries utilized in testing inform us something?
Joey, FL
MP: Nothing in any respect. That is the time of 12 months the place groups are looking for sponsors, planning with those they’ve, and dealing by which sponsors shall be on the automobiles at particular occasions in 2026. Since virtually not one of the 27 entries have a single, yearlong sponsor, it’s uncommon to see the automobiles throughout post-season assessments with the identical liveries and logos that had been simply on show to shut the championship.
Q: Why do you assume Conor Daly has struggled to keep up a gradual experience all through his profession? He clearly has a lot of expertise and at all times appears to be a menace at Indy but right here he’s once more – a confirmed driver at age 33 with out a experience.
In your opinion, what’s/are the rationale(s)?
Trying again, what’s/are the previous alternatives (if any) which, looking back, ought to’ve/may’ve/would possibly’ve delivered him higher profession stability?
Tom, Lake Forest
MP: He didn’t have the very best popularity earlier in his profession and was higher recognized for having late-night enjoyable than obsessively residing within the fitness center or on the store like a lot of his contemporaries. Whether or not it was or wasn’t absolutely correct or deserved is immaterial; that was the notion of Daly that caught with too many staff homeowners, and it positively impacted his choices to drive for the very best groups.
On observe, he’s pushed largely for midfield outfits and that comes with midfield outcomes, with exception for the ovals. He’s considered as an oval specialist, which is inaccurate by way of his full complement of abilities, however ovals are the place his greatest outcomes have been generated in order that’s one other popularity he’s acquired. Identical with JR Hildebrand.
Conor and JR made their names previous to IndyCar with excellent street racing output, however what stood out for each upon reaching IndyCar was on the ovals and so they had been duly relegated to ‘oval specialist’ standing and noticed their alternatives shrink.
The JHR staff was sufficiently dangerous on the 11 roads and streets final season, however featured on the six ovals with Conor. I’ve seen Daly impress on IndyCar street and streets previously, and his JHR predecessor Romain Grosjean did effectively on a lot of roads and streets in 2024, in order the staff underwent a pair of driver adjustments and important adjustments to its engineering group, I wasn’t stunned to see JHR take a step again in that class. Inserting the staff’s underwhelming street/avenue output on Conor could be foolish.
VeeKay can have the identical group, now in its second season collectively, to work with and they need to be stronger throughout the board after making use of what they realized from the hits and misses of 2025.
The Snake Pit is enjoyable and all, however Daly would inform you the actual social gathering occurs within the race automobile. Aaron Skillman/Penske Leisure
Q: With an increasing number of IndyCar groups turning into formally concerned in Indy NXT subsequent season, with the latest information of AJ Foyt and Ed Carpenter Racing saying packages/staff affiliations for 2026, along with Andretti’s, Ganassi’s and (probably) Juncos Hollinger’s already current participation within the sequence, what are the probabilities it will enhance the probability of a potential return within the Month of Might schedule for the Freedom 100 race?
It was at all times such a fan favourite and had supplied a few of the most enjoyable finishes in IMS historical past – it might be nice to have this flagship race reinstated.
Giuseppe, London, UK
MP: Zero %. Roger Penske deleted the Freedom 100 as a consequence of fears of driver damage, and the danger of any such accidents casting a pall over the Indy 500. Except his future successor adjustments Penske Leisure’s stance on the matter, it is gone for good.
Q: Did I miss one thing? It looks like the one one who has stated Sting Ray Robb is driving for JHR subsequent 12 months is his supervisor, however individuals discuss concerning the seat prefer it’s positively stuffed. Has there been affirmation from anybody else, or is it simply him making an attempt to will it into existence for his consumer?
Glenn in Houston
MP: Based on his supervisor Pieter Rossi in a textual content from September, SRR is “locked in” for 2026 and his contract “was at all times a two-year deal.” And I don’t doubt it.
In a follow-up name, Rossi stated there are not any efficiency clauses within the contract and they’re updated on their funds to the staff. He stated with these two issues in thoughts, there’s no breach or different mechanism for JHR to make use of to half methods.
However what I do query, and have questioned for months (which impressed Rossi’s outreach) was whether or not the staff needed to proceed with SRR or search some type of amicable cut up. SRR’s facet has been taking part in offense (or protection, relying on the way you take a look at it) to verify everyone is aware of he’s bought a deal for 2026. And what has JHR stated? It has been persistently silent on the matter.
JHR shifted its enterprise mannequin for 2025 to take paying drivers for the primary time in IndyCar, and I’ve heard there is a need to return to the previous mannequin in hiring two elite professionals, therefore the query about making a change.
Except I missed it, the social media feedback from SRR about being excited for 12 months 2 at JHR had no likes, feedback, or shares from the staff. Often, if a driver says or does something associated to their staff on social media, the staff interacts and co-signs on social media. In the event that they don’t, it’s odd.
Additionally, with the latest confirming of Rinus VeeKay as JHR’s “lead driver” (their phrases), there was no point out of SRR within the launch. It’s a two-car staff, and if SRR’s “locked in,” there could be each motive to say so within the launch, to notice that the staff’s lineup is full, to get a quote from the brand new driver saying he’s excited to work with the prevailing driver, from the prevailing driver welcoming the brand new driver, and so forth. Normal stuff. And in the event that they don’t, it’s odd.
As effectively, if SRR’s within the second automobile, there could be no must explicitly state that VeeKay is the “lead driver.” That’s painfully apparent, proper? SRR’s three seasons in IndyCar have include championship finishes of twenty third, twentieth, and twenty fifth. In these three seasons, he was six spots behind David Malukas at Coyne, 11 spots behind Santino Ferrucci at Foyt, and 7 spots behind Conor Daly at JHR. VeeKay, at Coyne in 2025, was 11 spots forward of SRR. These are the information.
So why would JHR record its lead driver as Rinus when not even SRR could be confused about the place he ranks within the pecking order? Yet one more oddity to course of.
After which there was a quote from JHR’s staff principal within the Rinus launch, which appeared to recommend extra adjustments are on the best way: “Rinus shall be a key a part of a refreshed driver lineup that displays our ambitions and long-term imaginative and prescient. We’re working laborious to assemble the right combination of expertise to raise our competitiveness, and we’re assured that Rinus will play a central function in that progress.”
If one thing is straightforward and easy, you’d count on it to be easy and easy. If Rinus and SRR are driving collectively, that’s a simple factor to state. When there’s no point out of SRR, and VeeKay is positioned as ‘a key a part of a refreshed driver lineup,’ and listed because the ‘lead driver,’ my mind needs to untangle the message behind no matter isn’t being stated.
Subsequent, IndyCar held a Zoom press convention with VeeKay proper after the announcement and in it, which the sequence managed (as a substitute of the staff controlling the messaging like within the press launch), he was requested about SRR as his teammate.
‘Q. You are going to be clearly becoming a member of a brand new staff with a brand new teammate in Sting Ray Robb. Are you able to discuss concerning the relationship on your teammate and the way essential that’s to you coming to a brand new staff?
RINUS VEEKAY: “Yeah, I’ve recognized Sting Ray for some time. He is an incredible man. I’ve heard no dangerous tales about him. I’ve by no means raced with him in automobiles, I feel, however no, he is an incredible man. Yeah, I’ve at all times loved seeing him round.”’
I learn that thrice and right here’s what I realized: He’s know him. He’s an incredible man. Heard nothing dangerous. Hasn’t raced with him. He’s an incredible man. At all times enjoys seeing him.
If you will discover something there that’s near “Can’t wait to get began on 2026 with him,” or, “I’ll be leaning on him to study some issues concerning the staff,” or a dozen different solutions would that point out “He’ll be my teammate,” please level it out among the many non-answer solutions.
And if we had been to ultimately study of a change in marital standing between JHR and SRR, I’ll consider the latest examples the place it occurred between contract-wielding drivers and their groups.
Zach Veach, who introduced Gainbridge to Andretti World, had a legitimate multi-year contract however the staff needed to maneuver on late in 2020 and ended their time collectively earlier than the contract ran its course by inserting James Hinchcliffe into the automobile. Veach accepted the buyout phrases and stated farewell to IndyCar.
Jack Harvey had a two-year cope with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing that ran by 2023, however following a disastrous 2022 season and a 2023 that didn’t enhance, they cut up after 14 of 17 races. He agreed to the phrases and has accomplished Indy 500 offers and joined FOX Sports activities as a broadcaster.
Regardless of having an iron-clad contract, if a staff needs to cease working with you, you possibly can battle it, and certain win in court docket, however at what value to your future? I wouldn’t fake to know what all went down between Benjamin Pedersen and the Foyt staff, however his arrival in 2023 was hailed as a multi-year engagement by the staff however he bought the boot on the finish of the season, which made manner for Robb to take his place in 2024. Pedersen sued Foyt and hasn’t been seen in an IndyCar since.
SRR’s been to and departed Coyne. He’s been to and departed Foyt. If JHR does need to make a change, do you try to delay the inevitable and power the second 12 months of the contract, go authorized and run the danger of closing each different door in IndyCar, or search an early exit payout and switch the web page in direction of LMP2?
So, possibly SRR will certainly be again and race subsequent to Rinus. Till the staff says in any other case, I’ll ignore the eccentricities and go together with Rossi’s “locked in” report.
You will positively possibly see Robb subsequent 12 months. Joe Skibinski/Penske Leisure
Q: I do know it’s the low season, however is not a bit odd that Andretti World has not up to date its IndyCar driver part to incorporate Will Energy? Laborious to promote new Will Energy swag when he has but to be added to their web site.
Mike, Avon, IN
MP: Brother, that is the wealthiest staff within the sequence. Its proprietor does issues like purchase the Los Angeles Lakers for $10 billion so as to add it to his portfolio of different main sports activities groups just like the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cadillac F1 and so forth. They offer zero poops concerning the pennies Will Energy swag will ship. Additionally, since he’s signed to start out work for the staff a couple of months from now, and he’s at present underneath Penske’s umbrella, there’s no rush to do something formal with Energy till the divorce is full.
Q: For me, F1 can typically be extra entertaining between the races than through the precise occasions. I really like a superb Telenovela (Spanish for cleaning soap opera). Christian Horner, Flavio, Toto and Zak Brown have all hold this season attention-grabbing, however nothing has piqued my curiosity greater than watching McLaren race with out assigning a primary driver.
Being a superb accountant, I simply put collectively a spreadsheet exhibiting the factors up to now, by race. After Canada Piastri had a 22 level lead. Over the next 4 races McLaren went 1-2, with Norris successful three of the 4, however solely by a slim margin distinction between P1 and P2, and whereas each had substantial leads over P3.
Had Piastri been assigned primary standing by then he would have 21 extra factors, and I imagine he could be the world champion at this level – or no less than have a a lot bigger lead for Max to beat.
If Max wins out, together with the dash races and quickest laps, he’ll be world champion.
So, what the hell is happening at McLaren? How mad is Oscar and the way silly does Zak really feel? It is simple arithmetic, Zak and one thing nobody ever needed to inform Enzo.
Tom Patrick, Baja California
CHRIS MEDLAND: I admire this query got here in earlier than the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix and Lando Norris’ dominant win, however by way of the worldwide image that was a race weekend that noticed Max Verstappen go from 40 factors away from the championship result in 36 factors, so it nonetheless seems a legitimate one.
I’m firmly within the camp of praising McLaren and Zak Brown for its strategy, as a result of he has two drivers who’re so carefully matched that I feel it might be vastly unfair to both of them to forestall them from going for the title when it’s been so shut all season.
If one had pulled comfortably clear at this level and it was a one-on-one battle with Max, then sure, I’d agree that the lead driver ought to be backed. However what we’re getting is a courageous name to allow them to hold preventing it out to show they’re a worthy champion, even amid the menace from Verstappen.
To me, that’s pure racing, giving the drivers the equipment however telling them to go and earn it. The most recent twist provides Norris a marginal benefit, however I feel Piastri proved earlier this season simply how good he’s and is clearly able to hitting again in Brazil.
One apart, too – there are not any factors for quickest laps anymore, so if Max wins all 4 grands prix and the 2 Sprints, that also received’t be sufficient to overtake the deficit he has to both McLaren driver if the identical driver finishes second every time (and even third on a few events).
Chatting with Piastri’s staff, they know there’s an extended solution to go on this title race and so they’re not mad. Each McLaren drivers know that if they’re to change into champion this season, they are going to have actually deserved it.
Q: Is that true that you must pay a subscription to see F1 races starting in 2026?
Chris Fiegler, Latham, NY
CM: Sure, however then when you view your cable value to obtain ESPN channels as a subscription, that’s additionally at all times been the case.
There are winners and losers for subscribers both manner, relying on the way you considered F1 earlier than. In case you solely watched on ESPN, you then’re going to need to pay for a brand new service and subscribe to Apple TV. In case you had been an F1 TV subscriber, you then’re going to be in the same place as earlier than.
F1 TV will solely be obtainable by way of Apple TV, however the premium package deal shall be fully included with a normal Apple TV subscription. In case you used to pay for F1 TV Premium, you then’re truly saving cash subsequent 12 months by getting it by Apple TV as a substitute, however when you had F1 TV Professional, then it’s barely costlier.
I’m hoping Apple will produce its personal shoulder programming – and ideally personal protection ultimately – to offer the viewers right here within the States one thing that’s bespoke and absolutely tailor-made to you, as I feel that may assist justify the price. However because it stands, the plans for 2026’s protection have but to be confirmed.
Q: Why does Sky Sports activities F1 make use of Danica Patrick? Cannot they discover a former F1 driver that has extra expertise as an F1 pundit than Danica? Or has extra insider details about F1 than her?
Jerry, Houston
CM: It is a powerful one for me to reply, Jerry, as a result of I don’t get to observe Sky’s protection as I’m working throughout a race weekend (and typically rivaling it!). However they do have loads of former F1 driver pundits other than Danica – Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg, for instance – and there simply isn’t an enormous pool of top-level single-seater feminine drivers to assist in giving a wider vary of views.
Whether or not you’re a fan of Danica’s punditry or not, it’s laborious to argue in opposition to her document as one of the crucial profitable girls to race on the highest degree within the U.S. in recent times, and he or she does convey an American perspective to the protection.
One reader is done-ica with Danica. Kym Illman/Getty Pictures
Q: What occurs to the winner-autographed champagne bottle after the race?
LBKTOM
CM: The winner will get to maintain the jeroboam themselves, however they’re requested in the event that they need to dedicate it to anybody once they signal it. For instance, Oscar Piastri devoted one to his sister and one to his granddad earlier this 12 months, so it may possibly make for a fairly cool reward to a member of the family of pal.
Q: Are you able to make a prediction for the highest three within the drivers’ and two-four within the constructors’?
Will, Indy
CM: I can, however that doesn’t imply I’ll be proper! I’m going to stay with my pre-season prediction and go together with Max Verstappen successful the title from Lando Norris with Oscar Piastri in third, and for the constructors’ I’ll again Ferrari to simply beat Mercedes to second place, with Pink Bull fourth.
The truth that Pink Bull is in that battle with simply Max is exceptional to be trustworthy, however I feel the dearth of sturdy factors from the second automobile will value it.
Q: Concerning the response to David’s query final night time week concerning the dash format, wouldn’t or not it’s higher to have a compressed format on a Friday for the dash – 30 min observe, single lap qualifying and dash race all within the afternoon?
It ensures there may be aggressive motion every day, and could possibly be branded as ‘who will get up to the mark quickest’. We worth the likes of Max and Alonso who’re on it immediately relatively than the drivers that want the info to dial themselves in.
Talking of sprints, is there any dialogue on shelving the partially reversed grid sprints in F2 and F3? We’ve had them for 20 years now in F2/GP2, and so they’ve added nothing however random and unremarkable winners. Like my F1 suggestion, they might set a dash race grid by the primary flying laps in qualifying?
Paul, Glasgow, Scotland
CM: That’s fairly a cool answer Paul, though one-lap qualifying truly takes a very long time when you’re giving every automobile the observe to themselves. It could be an extended day for groups and mechanics, nevertheless it could possibly be enjoyable to attempt to do a brief early observe session after which Dash qualifying and the Dash all in sooner or later, after which have a full hour’s observe on Saturday earlier than qualifying (like a traditional Saturday of FP3 and qualifying), although.
I can’t say I’ve heard any dialogue on that entrance in relation to altering the reverse grid format at junior ranges. You’ve bought to do not forget that the precedence for these championships is creating abilities for the longer term, and the argument for reverse grids is that they’re seen as a manner of enhancing race craft by having the drivers that qualify on the entrance beginning one race within the pack.
Q: We hear sometimes that Honda is sniffing round NASCAR, and I’m within the dialog concerning the engines they might theoretically run.
I heard the suggestion they need to run a turbo V6, which appears a ghastly concept. NASCAR is likely one of the final bastions of the rowdy straight-pipe atmo combustion engine. Dropping that appears unlikely.
Supercars have proven that discovering parity between even such related engines as a DOHC and a pushrod V8 is a nightmarish can of political worms. Can’t think about balancing a V6 and a V8 would find yourself something apart from a lose/lose for NASCAR.
Deep down, Honda is an organization that likes to construct a rowdy, straight-pipe atmo racing engine. I prefer to entertain the concept that they might construct a brand-new pushrod v8 for the duty. Isn’t that successfully what Toyota did?
Perhaps I’m dreaming.
B, NZ
MARK GLENDENNING: I spent the previous weekend round some senior Honda personnel and requested about this. They clearly weren’t inclined to reply definitively, however the vibe I bought was that Honda has a well-developed 2.4L twin-turbo V6 engine in IMSA that may each pace up the timeline and decrease the prices if it did determine to go to NASCAR. So if I had been compelled to make a guess on it, that’s the place I’d be leaning.
And also you’re appropriate that they love the identical issues about racing that the remainder of us do, however when asking themselves whether or not to decide to a particular path in racing, in addition they must think about less-exciting stuff like value, ROI, relevance, synergy with its different packages and a bunch of different issues. On that foundation, I can’t think about an iron block V8 being a precedence for them.
Discovering parity between the totally different engines may certainly be a headache for NASCAR – however maybe much less so if different producers noticed Honda as cue to go in the same course…
As to the problem of whether or not Honda goes into NASCAR in any respect, their reply stays the identical because it has been for the previous few months once they’re requested about this, or their future in IndyCar: “We might not be doing our jobs if we didn’t contemplate the entire motorsport choices in North America. That course of is ongoing, and once we’re able to announce one thing, we are going to let you already know. No determination has been made but.”
THE FINAL WORD
From Robin Miller’s Mailbag, 30 October, 2013
Q: It at all times amazes me once I hear individuals say that Sebastien Bourdais and Paul Tracy did not obtain something worthy of reward once they had been dominating Champ Automotive. It is at all times attention-grabbing to listen to individuals say they received as a result of the competitors wasn’t ok. But those self same individuals will say that Junqueira, Wilson, Servia et al are nice drivers who deserve a greater experience. Right me if I am unsuitable, however weren’t these the fellows that Bourdais and Tracy had been dominating?
Doug Mayer
ROBIN MILLER: The racing was good on the entrance, though Newman/Haas and Forsythe had been clearly the category of the sector, nevertheless it simply wasn’t very deep previous these 5-6 drivers you talked about ” plus AJ Allmendinger and a rookie named Will Energy. Definitely not like in the present day or CART within the ’90s.
