2025 Indycar season

I did not bother to watch the race highlights, I find the Indy road course as insipid as it gets. Let's hope for a good safe 500 with a new winner or Marcus Ericsson again, he got cheated a year or two ago with that one lap restart he had no chance as sitting duck in the lead.

 

Interesting to see Rahal running so well at the front for a while.

He seems to go well on the road course but, watch, RLL will once again be completely lost for
the 500 and have to buy their way in. Incomprehensible how a team such as this with all their
years of experience running these cars for so long can't seem to find the sweet spot for the 500.

Palou threatens to end the season by July if he keeps this up. He should be the early favorite
at the 500 of course but as we know, anything can happen.

BHW

 

2025 race season shaping up to be one of dominance:

-Two drivers have won half of the Nascar Cup races
-One driver (Piastri) has won 4 of 6 F1 races, his team 5/6
-Palou won 4 of 5 Indycar races (and 2nd place in his one "loss")

 

If you haven't seen it here is some pretty good insight from Racer on some of the less than exciting racing we have seen this season.

https://racer.com/2025/05/12/indycar-s-enigma-why-the-best-racing-on-the-planet-changed

 

today is day one of overly convoluted qualifying for the 500

 

big hits so far for Armstrong and Herta

O’Ward P1 right now

Schwartzman P3!

 

And, once again, Rahal makes it in by the skin of his teeth.

Seems incredible that a team with such chops as RLL can run so well on the road
course one weekend and be so lost on the oval the next.

Every year, Rahal's dramas are so predictable even I can see them coming.

BHW

 

Sato in the fast 12, other two RLL cars safely in the field. so it’s something about the 15…

 

Colton is Dallara’s crash test dummy

 

huge crash by Scotty Mac, damaged the racing surface

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fan view from inside turn 2

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A clear pattern of rear ends just snapping loose, more of these shunts to come alas.

 

yep. but hey, the hybrid cars means a third manufacturer joined the series!

oh wait

 

Apparently the landing gouged the racing surface on the fast line.

 

Now imagine a flying crash in the middle of a tight pack....

 

yep. they went back green so fixed to some degree, haven’t seen pics of it though

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they were lucky Dixon survived that massive crash a few years ago

they were lucky Kirkwood’s wheel went into the parking lot and not the stands

they were lucky none of this week’s crashes got into the catch fencing

luck runs out eventually…

 

oopsy daisy

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Shwartzman on pole. wasn’t expecting that

 

That fast 6 was fun. Indycar doesn't do a lot of things right but they do this one well.

Can Shwartzman do it for 500 miles? Hard to tell. Lots can go wrong and I wonder what a rookie crew doing so many pit stops might crack under the pressure. Sato and Palou have the advantage.

My guess is in the next week you're going to see another Sponsor added to the car and jerseys.

and WTF Penske? 2 cars are DQ'd? FAIL!

 

Robert Schwartzman was Mick Schumacher rival when they were both in F2.
I think they were both in the Ferrari Academy.
Schumacher spent 2 years in F1 at HAAS, but Schwartzman never got a break.
It's incredible that someone can get Pole at Indy without much of racing experience on ovals.

 

not to mention Prema hasn’t shown any real speed anywhere until Friday afternoon

 

Will Buxton needs to take some doggie downers.