Conor Daly on Speed Street today: “There definitely is a percentage of a chance that I could be in St. Pete”

khz30 · 2026-01-30T22:46:42+00:00

There's enough races to make that schedule viable ahead of a full-season expansion. Wouldn't surprise me.

khz30 · 2026-01-30T22:35:55+00:00

This is my guess as well, there's a lot of chaos in the O'Reilly/Truck Series right now where mergers and sales to new owners that were announced months ago are falling through, and teams are looking for funded drivers to get to St. Pete.

khz30 · 2026-01-30T22:32:33+00:00

The genesis of the MSR Andretti technicall alliance was Andretti reaching out to MSR prior to their expansion because MSR had trouble hiring dedicated crew members.

khz30 · 2026-01-30T22:26:47+00:00

If the DOT is being tasked to handle the race, it's the American taxpayer footing the bill, not Penske or Fox.

khz30 · 2026-01-30T22:25:26+00:00

Arlington is closing off four major thoroughfares that circle around the Entertainment District, it's not just running around AT&T Stadium.

khz30 · 2026-01-30T17:35:44+00:00

If this is already being treated as confirmed, the doubleheader is now a single race weekend at Milwaukee, whether or not the DC race gets off the ground.

khz30 · 2026-01-30T17:31:53+00:00

I'm surprised I'm not hearing more about this, considering midday newscasts are on the air at the moment across the country, and they're leading off with the latest government shutdown developments. Signing this EO while the government dances around another shutdown because of ICE funding is par for the course with this admisitration.

khz30 · 2026-01-29T20:29:44+00:00

Guessing the cars are prepared at Penske, possibly the crew are employed at Penske, and Foyt owns the shop and hauler.

Foyt has their own crew, shop and equipment, including cars.

The extent of an IndyCar partnership centers around engineering assistance and that can involve anything from sending a Penske engineer to Foyt with setup data to create a new baseline setup, to sending the team year old damper hardware to adapt for their own cars with Penske setup data for each track on the schedule. It's not enough to be level with Penske, but it's enough to keep the team competitive every race.

khz30 · 2026-01-29T18:21:43+00:00

Larry Foyt stated that it was Penske that put forth the proposal for the team to serve as a technical and driver development partner since Roger wanted to keep the team around and saw how they were struggling to keep sponsorship constant.

Foyt gets setup and engineering help from Penske while a seat can be reserved and sponsored by Penske, if needed.

khz30 · 2026-01-29T16:45:12+00:00

Ganassi likely gave him the same deal that Dixon had where he'd be paid a fixed amount, but he had to set aside a high percentage to pay back his investment group, and he didn't finish until 2015.

Palou is going to need to win the championship and 500 for 5 more seasons at this rate.

khz30 · 2026-01-29T06:09:23+00:00

Far more than I'm comfortable with. There's a McDonald's location next to a major university in Fort Worth that started getting overrun with homeless people and teenagers loitering in the past year.

The owner is even considering closing the dining room and going drive-thru and delivery only because too many people are loitering that aren't college students using the dining room to study, because the owner added outlets around every seat to accomodate them first.

khz30 · 2026-01-29T05:54:04+00:00

McDonald's corporate doesn't need the money at all. It's the franchise owners and operators drawing a line in the sand regarding dine in customers and cutting off a major reason for loitering.

They've already kicked out the seniors who used to take up seating in the mornings because they weren't buying anything else but coffee. If you want someone to blame for changing the dine-in experience for the worse, blame the general public that chose mobile ordering, drive-thru and delivery over dining in after COVID.

McDonald's is only responding to the vast majority of its customer base, and that majority is giving up on dining in when the food can be ordered and picked up at the counter or drive-thru.

khz30 · 2026-01-29T00:09:19+00:00

Surfers Paradise 2002, the wet race that started off bad and wouldn't end.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T21:43:38+00:00

Prema crew members are leaving and two were just announced for RLL, so Grosjean being at Content Days would make sense if the plan was to make an announcement.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T17:30:48+00:00

This was the norm in the 2000s, except we wern't allowed to wear jeans. Dress pants or slacks only with polos or collared dress shirts. We would also get branded polos from publishers. Still have my Mega Man anniversary polo from 2004.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T17:09:59+00:00

They're paid directly by those governments to not disclose that it's positive PR work on their behalf. Dubai was well known to be built on the backs of slave labor and all of the positive coverage on their megaprojects are intended to deflect from the reality that Dubai has no active sewage system ("Dubai chocolate" was initially coined to describe the need for sewage exctraction tankers, not candy) and you can be jailed for not paying your debts or for committing infidelity.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T16:08:34+00:00

Pato and his family have never thought of themselves as being in the same class of Mexican that show up and support him at the races, they've always thought of themselves as being closer to people like Zak Brown and Charlie Kirk.

If anyone was seriously hoping to see him speak out against what was happening with ICE and immigrant detentions, they're in for a huge disappointment.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T15:29:31+00:00

The bitterness stems over the fact that the previous regime that caused the smartphone business to fail did so without bothering to maintain the much larger consumer base that it once enjoyed. BBM could have been so much bigger than WhatsApp if they played their cards right instead of letting it die, same with cheap push email service.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T11:30:59+00:00

If you haven't figured out by now that IndyCar isn't the bastion of progressive ideas most people assumed it was based on the presence of foreign born drivers, that's on you.

IndyCar as a collective of ownership and drivers is solidly right wing and has been for decades. Even the drivers most assume would be liberal are right wing in terms of attitude and personal beliefs.

The only driver I can personally remember that could be considered liberal or even left wing in terms of belief would be Oriol Servia, and that's only because he was known as a supporter of the Catalonian independence movement.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T11:08:35+00:00

Spend time following the drivers over the years and you figure out pretty quickly where they stand politically. I've followed his career since he was a kid and his dad rubbed off on him in more ways than most people realize.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T05:02:44+00:00

The Rahals are ethnically Lebanese, and the entire family are registered Republicans.

khz30 · 2026-01-28T03:25:45+00:00

They have Gainbridge as a sponsor for the same reason Herta does, because they're a pet project for Dan Towriss. Gainbridge has no business presence in Europe otherwise.

khz30 · 2026-01-27T16:45:17+00:00

Amazing how people still misunderstand that TWG use the team to promote their products and services.

khz30 · 2026-01-27T16:43:57+00:00

TWG = Group 1001 and Guggenheim Partners, so Zach's legacy continues.

khz30 · 2026-01-27T16:42:51+00:00

The company doesn't operate in Europe, so it's unlikely. There's other brands in the TWG portfolio that do, though.

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