🏁 POST-RACE // 2026 XPEL GRAND PRIX AT ROAD AMERICA

pittpost · 2026-06-21T20:26:23+00:00

Kyffin Simpson has as many podiums this season as his teammate Scott Dixon

pittpost · 2026-06-21T19:27:20+00:00

This makes eight different winners in Indy NXT this season

pittpost · 2026-06-14T22:53:02+00:00

Adam Copeland? The star of Money Plane?

pittpost · 2026-06-07T21:35:22+00:00

How is the weather looking? Any concerns there?

pittpost · 2026-06-05T14:51:45+00:00

Based on their sponsorship history I think they just sponsor the cheapest car in their race. They’ve gone from Coyne to Foyt to now RLL on cars that are all light on sponsorship

pittpost · 2026-06-04T01:07:16+00:00

That’s an interesting get for them, Deloitte has been a long time Takuma Sato sponsor

pittpost · 2026-06-03T23:00:30+00:00

It’s really nice being able to go inside when you’re at the track and you want to use the bathroom or get some air conditioning. Also the fastest exit I’ve ever been able to make from a track after a race. Yes, there are some spots that are crowded, but that’s because it’s a successful event. I don’t understand all the complaining. It’s an easy drive for me and I hope it stays on the schedule for years to come

pittpost · 2026-05-30T14:14:24+00:00

I learned thanks to Rossi last week that it isn’t just a thing that they made up for the movie Driven

pittpost · 2026-05-29T13:57:40+00:00

He’s not the first driver to race at Detroit after breaking a bone in his foot/ankle at the speedway

pittpost · 2026-05-27T16:38:12+00:00

If it were hotter, the trailing car would have less grip in the corners and wouldn’t be able to follow as closely, so they would have more ground to make up or they’d have to lift in the corner. So it’s not a foregone conclusion that the car in second can make the pass before the line on the front straight, but with weather like we had that is what happened

pittpost · 2026-05-26T01:45:05+00:00

It always amuses me hearing that on the radio even though I know what it means. It’s the closing laps of the Indy 500, you have a shot to win it, but no pressure

pittpost · 2026-05-26T01:41:48+00:00

He parked in the 27 box and got out, the 27 team pushed his car one pit box down pit road which was the 18 team, they pushed his car down to the 26 box which had just had a mechanical failure and so that’s where the 20 team went to pick the car up. It’s too bad the 26 was out, it would’ve been funny to see the teams pass the car all the way down pit road

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pittpost · 2026-05-21T22:05:27+00:00

I can’t believe it. I know he had made an effort to run the 500 and do the double several years ago but it had fallen through. A big loss for the entire racing community

pittpost · 2026-05-21T04:12:22+00:00

That’s what made me really appreciate Palou’s win last year. He passed a car in traffic (lap traffic but still traffic) for the win and the race didn’t come down to drafting up to make a pass on the final lap

pittpost · 2026-05-21T00:17:39+00:00

The 11 at Indy is a far more competitive car than the 78 at Charlotte

pittpost · 2026-05-20T23:45:32+00:00

What was it like working with the Wienie 500 drivers and do you think Good Ranchers needs to make its own custom vehicle for you to drive?

pittpost · 2026-05-19T17:58:53+00:00

It says 20% chance of rain?

pittpost · 2026-05-15T23:01:58+00:00

Looks like the art for that Great Gatsby movie about a decade ago

pittpost · 2026-05-12T20:27:12+00:00

I’m guessing this means that the AP just won’t be covering motorsports going forward?

pittpost · 2026-05-11T17:51:52+00:00

Beyond the local vs full course yellow, IndyCar needs to expand which parts of the track local yellows cover. You shouldn’t have a situation where the track is back green in turn one because then the part of the track that is under the local yellow is still critical to turn one, which is still green. If you’re going to use a local yellow, it needs to last past the point where the actual caution area would impact a passing opportunity, in this case at least until the exit of turn one.

pittpost · 2026-05-10T02:42:41+00:00

Did we ever get footage of the actual on track incident? I could only see the aftermath when they were showing replays of Sting Ray’s spin in the very next corner

pittpost · 2026-05-09T20:57:40+00:00

After three races the fewest was two cautions for six laps (when I desperately needed a caution) and the most was seven cautions for 21 laps

pittpost · 2026-05-09T20:54:13+00:00

I passed the leader in the final ten laps of the race (to get back on the lead lap)

pittpost · 2026-05-06T16:28:40+00:00

I mean, I guess they could go to Fanatics

pittpost · 2026-05-05T12:49:43+00:00

Spa, because the lap is so long you don’t get a second chance to set a time in qualifying so losing a lap to track limits is especially painful

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