re: 2026 Indycar Season Thread

Mexico City makes more sense

Long Beach race week. Usually a great race

I think people are realizing streaming ends up costing more due to overhead costs and scaling (and having so many different bills)

Its like a bunch of independent stores who start off cheap to draw customers then raise prices. Then people realize they can go to the bigger store to save money and/or time. We’re not all the way there yet but its been coming out more and more that customers are tiring of all the streaming bills they’re getting and still increasing.

Cable has the scale to package TV with less overhead than streamers. Not always and not perfect. But it seems people are tiring of streamers.

I also think streamers were a great wakeup call for cable. Its made them better. But some of these sports leagues are throwing away fans due to greedy deals with streamers. I’m an example, I watched F1 for years on ESPN and I gave it up when they went to Apple. As time goes by I have less and less interest in that sport.

Indy picked a perfect time to go Fox. I now follow it much closer and replaced F1 with Indy.

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INDYCAR has hired Ganassi engineering executive Mike O’Gara as the INDYCAR VP of Competition, Race Engineering. He will be heavily involved in the development of the new car for 2028 as well as the technical portion of the rulebook.

Street Race was pretty boring

Palou takes the championship lead back.

Pit crew lot the race for the 60

Recorded:
Practice 1 check
Practice 2 check
Qualifying check
Warmup check
Prerace nope
Race nope

Damn you Fox. I think Im the only one who liked NBC coverage and commentators.

If they don’t get to 34 then what happens to bump day?

Abel Motorsports confirms that Jacob Abel will drive its car at the Indy 500 this year. That makes 32 confirmed entries and Katherine Legge-AJ Foyt Racing is expected to be the 33rd (no 34th).

Good or bad?

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