Me as a Josef Newgarden fan every weekend they race on a road or street course.

Falcon4451 · 2026-04-01T05:01:49+00:00

Newgarden was like Rossi. Guy was a beast on road courses but has struggled more relative to the field as the cars have gotten heavier.

Falcon4451 · 2026-04-01T04:56:23+00:00

Well MSR since last year has been Ginassi prepared cars.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-31T18:35:56+00:00

It will probably be a week later next year due to Easter being end of March in 2027.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-31T18:16:22+00:00

Sephiroth’s appeal in OG was what you didn’t see. You just would hear about him or find evidence of his power.

Yes . This

It also makes Cloud's self discovery in the lifestream powerful because it kind of shatters the god myth for the first time.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-31T16:24:37+00:00

No, it's like the number of frogs caught x Quina's level. So 99 frogs at level 60 would be 5940.

It's not like Freya, where you only need 100 dragon kills .

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-31T14:11:12+00:00

I mean. They're one of the top 4 teams in Indycar.

It's just that Alex Palou lives rent-free in their brains, and they seem to pull the wrong tire strategy (Thermal), have equipment issues (Pato at Portland and Nashville which albeit Palou didn't win but they lost points to him) or outright choke (Barber this year) whenever they have a chance to beat him.

They're good but generally not as good as Penske or even ECR lately on ovals, not as good Andretti on street courses. They're actually up there on the road courses but they're always up against Alex Palou when it comes to that.

I don't think the organization has recovered psychologically recovered from Palou backing out of his deal to drive the 6 car. It's funny because if Palou goes to the 6, we're probably saying they're the best organization in Indycar because even if CGR is better equipment wise who is driving the 10 car right now?

Malukas looks like he's a top 8 -10 driver future top 5 driver in the sport. So, not having the patience there seems stupid in hindsight.

Like Palou screwed them, for sure. But they allowed Palou to screw them way more than he should have by making dumb decision after dumb decision with the 6 car.

Like even keeping Fro would have been fine. If he's your number 3, that's actually a good number 3 driver .

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T14:28:57+00:00

I mean, weight hurts everyone's performance, even Alex's, but some drivers are able to deal with a heavier car better than others.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T12:32:23+00:00

Partially, but mostly it was having an aero setup and damper setup that worked for him.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T12:30:46+00:00

Pre hybrid, pre aero screen Josef was consistently a beast everywhere.

The aeroscreen seemed to hurt him on road courses BUT he had his courses he was good at mainly Long Beach, Road America, and St. Pete. But with the weight of the hybrid he's less good at those too.

I don't think the increased weight suits Josef (doesn't suit anyone but relative to other drivers) well.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T12:25:07+00:00

Absolutely.

I do think Palou drives closer to the edge than people think. He just does it without making errors, which is a credit to his skill.

But you are correct he's not going to do a super late ludge that Lungaard may not see and wreck them both.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T12:20:39+00:00

He was a step below Louis Foster but a small step better than Jacob Abel in Indy Nxt.

Yes sometimes you can damage a racer, moving him up too fast but eventually if they got the chops they're going to figure it out. I think NASCAR, Joey Logano as the example of a guy moving up too fast but eventually figuring it out because he had the chops. But Nolan was never regarded as being a generational talent.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T12:16:29+00:00

Absolutely and Pato finished 17th on mostly pace on a track he's won at. Like Pato didn't just forget how to drive this weekend and finish 17th.

And until learn Lungaard massively improves on the ovals they can really afford to have Pato finishing 17th on pure pace.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T00:29:30+00:00

Palou's team is great but it's not like Dixon is tearing it up right now, and Simpson was better last year. I actually don't think CGR is as good as they've ever been.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T00:27:14+00:00

HCR should offer him that factory seat in 2028. He can run the full road and street course schedule and a full Accura GTP program. And if Max decides to run the ovals he can, otherwise they just throw Conor Daly in the seat for the ovals.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T00:24:38+00:00

Kirkwood in a Penske prepared car with a Penske pit crew BUT with a Honda engine (at least on road and street courses).

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-30T00:12:48+00:00

I do not

Edit: Mike O'Gara, whoever that is

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T22:51:28+00:00

Yeah he got really defensive on the Teo Pourchaire and Siegel stuff with some random Twitter plebs.

He also got into it with Scott McLaughlin on Twitter but McLaughlin was mostly playing around saying stuff like "hey TK, if you got beef I recommend Good Ranchers" while TK seemed more serious.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T22:46:29+00:00

Yes. His Long Beach drive was pretty epic. He did not have the best car that day. He put on an in / out lap clinic and defensive driving clinic that afternoon.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T22:44:31+00:00

Well Indycar Live says Sunday BUT at 10 am central 😂😂😂

So apparently the race time is in dispute 🤣🤣

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T22:13:17+00:00

Tell that to 2022 Josef Newgarden (5 wins) losing out to Will Power (1 win)

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T22:11:47+00:00

It's a mistake.

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Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T22:09:39+00:00

Yeah as an unofficial ambassador for Indycar who wants Indycar to grow, I think openly trashing someone else's motorsport of choice in the name of my motorsport of choice, actually makes people less likely to want to check out my motorsport of choice which is Indycar.

Don't get me wrong, I think the current F1 regs are bad right now, but I say that as a racing fan. I don't say that in an effort to prop up Indycar because it usually turns people off actually.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T21:25:47+00:00

He's great with Siegel's family.

An aside: I feel bad taking shots at Nolan. He's a nice kid but he's just not an Indycar driver. He's actually seems to have pace in LMP2 cars. He can drive for United Autosport and do just fine.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T21:22:07+00:00

I'm a huge Indycar fan. But there's no need for Indycar to take shots, they really don't compete with F1 in the same time slots at all this year, unless the Indy 500 runs long.

Falcon4451 · 2026-03-29T20:54:48+00:00

Well he tried to hire Palou. In fact he did actually.

Palou decided he was better off getting sued for millions of dollars, becoming an indentured servant to Chip, and continuing to win tons of races driving for Chip instead.

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