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Q: Is VeeKay’s seat at JHR the improve from Coyne everybody was saying hr was headed to earlier than the dominos began to fall?
Steve, Ohio
MARSHALL PRUETT: It isn’t, which is why the JHR workforce went after VeeKay to try to use his abilities to remodel the workforce into a greater model of itself. He was mightily spectacular at Dale Coyne Racing and that clearly caught the eye of Brad Hollinger, who co-owns and funds JHR, and Ricardo Juncos, who was integral in creating VeeKay on the open-wheel ladder previous to Hollinger’s arrival in 2021.
It is going to be attention-grabbing to see how VeeKay fares at JHR with out savant race engineer/technical director Michael Cannon, who was the opposite half of the equation at Coyne. Congrats to Michael, BTW, on being inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Corridor of Fame.
Q: Thanks for answering final week’s query from Jerry in Houston about drivers’ pay. Particularly, how paying drivers receives a commission whereas paying to be in a seat.
A number of years in the past I helped fund an up-and-coming driver in what was Professional 2000 on the time. I’ve realized lots in regards to the behind the scenes going-ons of which you detailed in your well-described reply. I’m probably not asking a query right here, however reiterating your reply and stating the ignorance or naïvety (not insulting anybody, simply stating the final lack of know-how) of many detrimental on-line chats stating some drivers are solely there due to “daddy’s” or household cash.
Whereas this cash half is true for some, (and these drivers are in actual fact gifted), others should endure all of the situations you describe. For the lower than super-wealthy households, they typically get to a degree that if the child is sweet sufficient, they’ve already mortgaged the home climbing the ladder. If dad and mom and child handle to search out the wanted cash to proceed, and one or all of the conditions you describe occur to them, the results will typically have a huge effect in your season, as your workforce is pressured to chop again, you’re out scrambling to search out new funding to maintain the seat, and so on. Add to this that drivers not within the very rich household class are usually on the smaller groups in higher want of sources than the large groups.
Backside line is it makes it that a lot harder to be aggressive in a extremely aggressive sequence the place 0.010 of a second matter, and something above mid-pack, fifteenth or higher, (above the paid driver group) is a purpose. Actuality in the long run is cash/sources, long run, is what builds a number one workforce. The smaller youthful groups are preventing the harder battle not solely on race day, however annually to keep up, and attempt to construct their applications. Evidently whereas each different workforce, huge and small, are doing precisely the identical factor. The extra you be taught, the deeper your appreciation.
Lastly, thanks RACER for Robin’s Ultimate Phrase. All of us want a “slap within the face”, (or two), at times!
Zenith
MP: As I used to be developing the racing ladder as a mechanic, I largely labored with paying drivers, which is the norm. We love the youngsters firing up by means of the USF Championships and Indy NXT, however 99 % of them are driving vehicles paid for by family and friends by means of private wealth, the proceeds from a enterprise their dad and mom or pals of the household personal, or another technique devised to pay groups the a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} wanted on the USF2000 stage to greater than one million per season required for NXT.
Solely within the rarest of situations will you discover a child in a pre-IndyCar seat that’s funded by the workforce, which implies the ‘daddy’s cash’ tag is or has been worn in some unspecified time in the future by nearly each driver we all know at the moment in IndyCar, NASCAR, F1, and so forth. The distinction right here, although, within the IndyCar instance, is when a few of these paying drivers graduate by shopping for a seat, run in the back of the sphere, and turn out to be seen as little greater than a strolling paycheck.
They maintain worth in an financial sense, and because of them, groups which can be unskilled at discovering full sponsorship to fund all of their vehicles can depend on the partial or full budgets delivered to them by a paying driver. These groups are in a position to make use of 12-20 people who find themselves connected to that driver’s entry, and that’s usually a very powerful contribution introduced by the vast majority of paying drivers.
Dozens of individuals feed their households and put their youngsters by means of faculty on account of the earnings delivered by these drivers. I used to be in that scenario as soon as once I was a crew member in IndyCar, and it kills the soul, but additionally, hopefully, conjures up you to do higher, purpose greater, or look outdoors of the game for one thing extra fulfilling.
However there’s no denying how unusual and ill-fitting it’s to take a look at 27 particular person IndyCar entries – name them groups – and take into account that at the least two or three of these 27 drivers are solely within the sequence due to their means to purchase their manner into the sport. And by that, I imply they might be out of the sequence immediately if their funding disappeared.
May you think about two or three of the 32 NFL groups placing quarterbacks on the sphere who’re solely there as a result of they pay hundreds of thousands to play the sport? It’s an absurd idea in stick-and-ball sports activities, however not in skilled racing. It’s nothing new right here, after all, however, as IndyCar had in 2025, when the three drivers who completed on the backside of the championship had been paying drivers, I can perceive why some of us aren’t loving the look.
This might be you! (For a value). Joe Skibinski/Penske Leisure
Q: It has been written that Will Energy remains to be underneath contract to Penske till January. What are his restrictions and limitations concerning any sort of involvement and interplay with the Andretti group?
Can he have any interplay along with his new workforce?
Steve, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
MP: Since Will hasn’t despatched me his Penske contract to assessment, I can solely go off of generalisms. He’s acquired a non-compete clause, which implies he can’t have interaction with a brand new employer till that agreed-upon window of exclusivity to Penske expires. No planning with Andretti. No simulator time or testing with Andretti/Honda. No knowledge or setup critiques with Andretti. No hanging out at Andretti’s store and fellowshipping with the crew, and so on. All of these issues are forbidden, by contract, till the non-compete expires.
However all of these issues are adhered to on the consideration system, proper? Once I’ve learn of earlier non-competes, the query I all the time ask is how a workforce with a driver, engineer, or supervisor underneath a non-compete would be capable to monitor the communications of the one that’s meant to be immobilized throughout the blackout interval.
In a world the place VPNs and burner telephones are commonplace, how precisely would Workforce X be capable to stop Workforce Y from doing all-day Zooms with Driver Z in the event that they made an effort to go incognito? We all know racing groups and producers spend cash yearly on what could be flippantly known as espionage; at a minimal, they rent individuals to {photograph} and movie one another’s vehicles to check and distinction chassis setup decisions with their very own vehicles.
Wouldn’t it be so unusual to counsel that since groups spend money on spying on one another on the monitor, some may also spend money on countermeasures to cover and defend their communications away from the monitor? These are the issues I ponder about throughout the offseason…
Q: Is there something to be learn into the liveries on vehicles at checks? For instance, Malukas testing a generically Penske-wrapped No.12 automotive with no sponsors, or Palou testing an all-black No.10 automotive? I’ll say Palou was carrying his conventional DHL racesuit. Do the liveries utilized in testing inform us something?
Joey, FL
MP: Nothing in any respect. That is the time of 12 months the place groups are looking for sponsors, planning with those they’ve, and dealing by means of which sponsors might be on the vehicles at particular occasions in 2026. Since nearly not one of the 27 entries have a single, yearlong sponsor, it’s uncommon to see the vehicles throughout post-season checks with the identical liveries and logos that had been simply on show to shut the championship.
Q: Why do you suppose Conor Daly has struggled to keep up a gentle journey all through his profession? He clearly has a lot of expertise and all the time appears to be a risk at Indy but right here he’s once more – a confirmed driver at age 33 and not using a journey.
In your opinion, what’s/are the explanation(s)?
Wanting again, what’s/are the previous alternatives (if any) which, looking back, ought to’ve/may’ve/would possibly’ve delivered him higher profession stability?
Tom, Lake Forest
MP: He didn’t have the most effective repute earlier in his profession and was higher recognized for having late-night enjoyable than obsessively residing within the gymnasium or on the store like lots of his contemporaries. Whether or not it was or wasn’t totally correct or deserved is immaterial; that was the notion of Daly that caught with too many workforce house owners, and it positively impacted his choices to drive for the most effective groups.
On monitor, he’s pushed largely for midfield outfits and that comes with midfield outcomes, with exception for the ovals. He’s seen as an oval specialist, which is inaccurate by way of his full complement of expertise, however ovals are the place his greatest outcomes have been generated in order that’s one other repute he’s obtained. Identical with JR Hildebrand.
Conor and JR made their names previous to IndyCar with excellent street racing output, however what stood out for each upon reaching IndyCar was on the ovals they usually had been duly relegated to ‘oval specialist’ standing and noticed their alternatives shrink.
The JHR workforce was sufficiently unhealthy on the 11 roads and streets final season, however featured on the six ovals with Conor. I’ve seen Daly impress on IndyCar street and streets up to now, and his JHR predecessor Romain Grosjean did effectively on numerous roads and streets in 2024, in order the workforce underwent a pair of driver modifications and important modifications to its engineering group, I wasn’t shocked to see JHR take a step again in that class. Inserting the workforce’s underwhelming street/road output on Conor could be foolish.
VeeKay may have the identical group, now in its second season collectively, to work with and they need to be stronger throughout the board after making use of what they realized from the hits and misses of 2025.
The Snake Pit is enjoyable and all, however Daly would let you know the true occasion occurs within the race automotive. Aaron Skillman/Penske Leisure
Q: With increasingly more IndyCar groups changing into formally concerned in Indy NXT subsequent season, with the latest information of AJ Foyt and Ed Carpenter Racing saying applications/workforce affiliations for 2026, along with Andretti’s, Ganassi’s and (probably) Juncos Hollinger’s already current participation within the sequence, what are the probabilities this may enhance the chance of a potential return within the Month of Could schedule for the Freedom 100 race?
It was all the time such a fan favourite and had supplied a few of the most fun finishes in IMS historical past – it will be nice to have this flagship race reinstated.
Giuseppe, London, UK
MP: Zero %. Roger Penske deleted the Freedom 100 attributable to fears of driver damage, and the chance of any such accidents casting a pall over the Indy 500. Except his future successor modifications Penske Leisure’s stance on the matter, it is gone for good.
Q: Did I miss one thing? It looks as if the one one that has mentioned Sting Ray Robb is driving for JHR subsequent 12 months is his supervisor, however individuals discuss in regards to the seat prefer it’s positively crammed. Has there been affirmation from anybody else, or is it simply him attempting to will it into existence for his consumer?
Glenn in Houston
MP: In keeping with his supervisor Pieter Rossi in a textual content from September, SRR is “locked in” for 2026 and his contract “was all the time a two-year deal.” And I don’t doubt it.
In a follow-up name, Rossi mentioned there are not any efficiency clauses within the contract and they’re updated on their funds to the workforce. He mentioned with these two issues in thoughts, there’s no breach or different mechanism for JHR to make use of to half methods.
However what I do query, and have questioned for months (which impressed Rossi’s outreach) was whether or not the workforce needed to proceed with SRR or search some type of amicable break up. SRR’s facet has been taking part in offense (or protection, relying on the way you take a look at it) to verify everyone is aware of he’s acquired a deal for 2026. And what has JHR mentioned? It has been persistently silent on the matter.
JHR shifted its enterprise mannequin for 2025 to take paying drivers for the primary time in IndyCar, and I’ve heard there is a want to return to the previous mannequin in hiring two elite execs, therefore the query about making a change.
Except I missed it, the social media feedback from SRR about being excited for 12 months 2 at JHR had no likes, feedback, or shares from the workforce. Normally, if a driver says or does something associated to their workforce on social media, the workforce interacts and co-signs on social media. In the event that they don’t, it’s odd.
Additionally, with the latest confirming of Rinus VeeKay as JHR’s “lead driver” (their phrases), there was no point out of SRR within the launch. It’s a two-car workforce, and if SRR’s “locked in,” there could be each purpose to say so within the launch, to notice that the workforce’s lineup is full, to get a quote from the brand new driver saying he’s excited to work with the prevailing driver, from the prevailing driver welcoming the brand new driver, and so forth. Normal stuff. And in the event that they don’t, it’s odd.
As effectively, if SRR’s within the second automotive, there could be no have to explicitly state that VeeKay is the “lead driver.” That’s painfully apparent, proper? SRR’s three seasons in IndyCar have include championship finishes of twenty third, twentieth, and twenty fifth. In these three seasons, he was six spots behind David Malukas at Coyne, 11 spots behind Santino Ferrucci at Foyt, and 7 spots behind Conor Daly at JHR. VeeKay, at Coyne in 2025, was 11 spots forward of SRR. These are the information.
So why would JHR listing its lead driver as Rinus when not even SRR could be confused about the place he ranks within the pecking order? Another oddity to course of.
After which there was a quote from JHR’s workforce principal within the Rinus launch, which appeared to counsel extra modifications are on the best way: “Rinus might be a key a part of a refreshed driver lineup that displays our ambitions and long-term imaginative and prescient. We’re working exhausting to assemble the right combination of expertise to raise our competitiveness, and we’re assured that Rinus will play a central function in that progress.”
If one thing is easy and simple, you’d count on it to be easy and simple. If Rinus and SRR are driving collectively, that’s a straightforward factor to state. When there’s no point out of SRR, and VeeKay is positioned as ‘a key a part of a refreshed driver lineup,’ and listed because the ‘lead driver,’ my mind desires to untangle the message behind no matter isn’t being mentioned.
Subsequent, IndyCar held a Zoom press convention with VeeKay proper after the announcement and in it, which the sequence managed (as a substitute of the workforce controlling the messaging like within the press launch), he was requested about SRR as his teammate.
‘Q. You are going to be clearly becoming a member of a brand new workforce with a brand new teammate in Sting Ray Robb. Are you able to discuss in regards to the relationship on your teammate and the way essential that’s to you coming to a brand new workforce?
RINUS VEEKAY: “Yeah, I’ve recognized Sting Ray for some time. He is a fantastic man. I’ve heard no unhealthy tales about him. I’ve by no means raced with him in vehicles, I feel, however no, he is a fantastic man. Yeah, I’ve all the time loved seeing him round.”’
I learn that 3 times and right here’s what I realized: He’s know him. He’s a fantastic man. Heard nothing unhealthy. Hasn’t raced with him. He’s a fantastic man. At all times enjoys seeing him.
If yow will discover something there that’s near “Can’t wait to get began on 2026 with him,” or, “I’ll be leaning on him to be taught some issues in regards to the workforce,” or a dozen different solutions would that point out “He’ll be my teammate,” please level it out among the many non-answer solutions.
And if we had been to ultimately be taught of a change in marital standing between JHR and SRR, I’ll consider the latest examples the place it occurred between contract-wielding drivers and their groups.
Zach Veach, who introduced Gainbridge to Andretti International, had a sound multi-year contract however the workforce needed to maneuver on late in 2020 and ended their time collectively earlier than the contract ran its course by inserting James Hinchcliffe into the automotive. Veach accepted the buyout phrases and mentioned farewell to IndyCar.
Jack Harvey had a two-year take care of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing that ran by means of 2023, however following a disastrous 2022 season and a 2023 that didn’t enhance, they break up after 14 of 17 races. He agreed to the phrases and has achieved Indy 500 offers and joined FOX Sports activities as a broadcaster.
Regardless of having an iron-clad contract, if a workforce desires to cease working with you, you possibly can struggle it, and certain win in courtroom, however at what value to your future? I wouldn’t faux to know what all went down between Benjamin Pedersen and the Foyt workforce, however his arrival in 2023 was hailed as a multi-year engagement by the workforce however he acquired the boot on the finish of the season, which made manner for Robb to take his place in 2024. Pedersen sued Foyt and hasn’t been seen in an IndyCar since.
SRR’s been to and departed Coyne. He’s been to and departed Foyt. If JHR does need to make a change, do you try to delay the inevitable and power the second 12 months of the contract, go authorized and run the chance of closing each different door in IndyCar, or search an early exit payout and switch the web page in the direction of LMP2?
So, possibly SRR will certainly be again and race subsequent to Rinus. Till the workforce says in any other case, I’ll ignore the eccentricities and go together with Rossi’s “locked in” report.
You will positively possibly see Robb subsequent 12 months. Joe Skibinski/Penske Leisure
Q: I do know it’s the low season, however is not a bit odd that Andretti International has not up to date its IndyCar driver part to incorporate Will Energy? Exhausting to promote new Will Energy swag when he has but to be added to their web site.
Mike, Avon, IN
MP: Brother, that is the wealthiest workforce within the sequence. Its proprietor does issues like purchase the Los Angeles Lakers for $10 billion so as to add it to his portfolio of different main sports activities groups just like the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cadillac F1 and so forth. They provide zero poops in regards to the pennies Will Energy swag will ship. Additionally, since he’s signed to start out work for the workforce just a few months from now, and he’s at present underneath Penske’s umbrella, there’s no rush to do something formal with Energy till the divorce is full.
Q: For me, F1 can usually be extra entertaining between the races than throughout the precise occasions. I like a superb Telenovela (Spanish for cleaning soap opera). Christian Horner, Flavio, Toto and Zak Brown have all preserve this season attention-grabbing, however nothing has piqued my curiosity greater than watching McLaren race with out assigning a primary driver.
Being a superb accountant, I simply put collectively a spreadsheet exhibiting the factors up to now, by race. After Canada Piastri had a 22 level lead. Over the next 4 races McLaren went 1-2, with Norris successful three of the 4, however solely by a slim margin distinction between P1 and P2, and whereas each had substantial leads over P3.
Had Piastri been assigned primary standing by then he would have 21 extra factors, and I consider he could be the world champion at this level – or at the least have a a lot bigger lead for Max to beat.
If Max wins out, together with the dash races and quickest laps, he’ll be world champion.
So, what the hell is occurring at McLaren? How mad is Oscar and the way silly does Zak really feel? It is basic math, Zak and one thing nobody ever needed to inform Enzo.
Tom Patrick, Baja California
CHRIS MEDLAND: I admire this query got here in earlier than the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix and Lando Norris’ dominant win, however by way of the worldwide image that was a race weekend that noticed Max Verstappen go from 40 factors away from the championship result in 36 factors, so it nonetheless seems a sound one.
I’m firmly within the camp of praising McLaren and Zak Brown for its method, as a result of he has two drivers who’re so intently matched that I feel it will be massively unfair to both of them to forestall them from going for the title when it’s been so shut all season.
If one had pulled comfortably clear at this level and it was a one-on-one struggle with Max, then sure, I’d agree that the lead driver needs to be backed. However what we’re getting is a courageous name to allow them to preserve preventing it out to show they’re a worthy champion, even amid the risk from Verstappen.
To me, that’s pure racing, giving the drivers the equipment however telling them to go and earn it. The most recent twist provides Norris a marginal benefit, however I feel Piastri proved earlier this season simply how good he’s and is clearly able to hitting again in Brazil.
One apart, too – there are not any factors for quickest laps anymore, so if Max wins all 4 grands prix and the 2 Sprints, that also gained’t be sufficient to overtake the deficit he has to both McLaren driver if the identical driver finishes second every time (and even third on a few events).
Chatting with Piastri’s workforce, they know there’s a protracted strategy to go on this title race they usually’re not mad. Each McLaren drivers know that if they’re to turn out to be champion this season, they are going to have actually deserved it.
Q: Is that true that you must pay a subscription to see F1 races starting in 2026?
Chris Fiegler, Latham, NY
CM: Sure, however then when you view your cable value to obtain ESPN channels as a subscription, that’s additionally all the time been the case.
There are winners and losers for subscribers both manner, relying on the way you seen F1 earlier than. When you solely watched on ESPN, then you definately’re going to need to pay for a brand new service and subscribe to Apple TV. When you had been an F1 TV subscriber, then you definately’re going to be in an analogous place as earlier than.
F1 TV will solely be obtainable by way of Apple TV, however the premium package deal might be utterly included with a typical Apple TV subscription. When you used to pay for F1 TV Premium, then you definately’re truly saving cash subsequent 12 months by getting it by means of Apple TV as a substitute, however when you had F1 TV Professional, then it’s barely dearer.
I’m hoping Apple will produce its personal shoulder programming – and ideally personal protection ultimately – to offer the viewers right here within the States one thing that’s bespoke and totally tailor-made to you, as I feel that can assist justify the fee. However because it stands, the plans for 2026’s protection have but to be confirmed.
Q: Why does Sky Sports activities F1 make use of Danica Patrick? Cannot they discover a former F1 driver that has extra expertise as an F1 pundit than Danica? Or has extra insider details about F1 than her?
Jerry, Houston
CM: It is a robust one for me to reply, Jerry, as a result of I don’t get to observe Sky’s protection as I’m working throughout a race weekend (and typically rivaling it!). However they do have loads of former F1 driver pundits other than Danica – Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg, for instance – and there simply isn’t an enormous pool of top-level single-seater feminine drivers to assist in giving a wider vary of views.
Whether or not you’re a fan of Danica’s punditry or not, it’s exhausting to argue towards her file as probably the most profitable girls to race on the highest stage within the U.S. lately, and she or he does deliver an American perspective to the protection.
One reader is done-ica with Danica. Kym Illman/Getty Photographs
Q: What occurs to the winner-autographed champagne bottle after the race?
LBKTOM
CM: The winner will get to maintain the jeroboam themselves, however they’re requested in the event that they need to dedicate it to anybody after they signal it. For instance, Oscar Piastri devoted one to his sister and one to his granddad earlier this 12 months, so it could possibly make for a reasonably cool reward to a member of the family of buddy.
Q: Are you able to make a prediction for the highest three within the drivers’ and two-four within the constructors’?
Will, Indy
CM: I can, however that doesn’t imply I’ll be proper! I’m going to stay with my pre-season prediction and go together with Max Verstappen successful the title from Lando Norris with Oscar Piastri in third, and for the constructors’ I’ll again Ferrari to only beat Mercedes to second place, with Pink Bull fourth.
The truth that Pink Bull is in that struggle with simply Max is exceptional to be sincere, however I feel the dearth of sturdy factors from the second automotive will value it.
Q: Concerning the response to David’s query final night time week in regards to the dash format, wouldn’t or not it’s higher to have a compressed format on a Friday for the dash – 30 min follow, single lap qualifying and dash race all within the afternoon?
It ensures there’s aggressive motion every day, and might be branded as ‘who will get up to the mark quickest’. We worth the likes of Max and Alonso who’re on it immediately fairly than the drivers that want the information to dial themselves in.
Talking of sprints, is there any dialogue on shelving the partially reversed grid sprints in F2 and F3? We’ve had them for 20 years now in F2/GP2, they usually’ve added nothing however random and unremarkable winners. Like my F1 suggestion, they might set a dash race grid by the primary flying laps in qualifying?
Paul, Glasgow, Scotland
CM: That’s fairly a cool resolution Paul, though one-lap qualifying truly takes a very long time when you’re giving every automotive the monitor to themselves. It will be a protracted day for groups and mechanics, however it might be enjoyable to attempt to do a brief early follow session after which Dash qualifying and the Dash all in in the future, after which have a full hour’s follow on Saturday earlier than qualifying (like a traditional Saturday of FP3 and qualifying), although.
I can’t say I’ve heard any dialogue on that entrance with regards to altering the reverse grid format at junior ranges. You’ve acquired to do not forget that the precedence for these championships is creating abilities for the longer term, and the argument for reverse grids is that they’re seen as a manner of bettering race craft by having the drivers that qualify on the entrance beginning one race within the pack.
Q: We hear sometimes that Honda is sniffing round NASCAR, and I’m within the dialog in regards to the engines they might theoretically run.
I heard the suggestion they need to run a turbo V6, which appears a ghastly concept. NASCAR is without doubt one of the final bastions of the rowdy straight-pipe atmo combustion engine. Dropping that appears unlikely.
Supercars have proven that discovering parity between even such comparable engines as a DOHC and a pushrod V8 is a nightmarish can of political worms. Can’t think about balancing a V6 and a V8 would find yourself something apart from a lose/lose for NASCAR.
Deep down, Honda is an organization that likes to construct a rowdy, straight-pipe atmo racing engine. I wish to entertain the concept they might construct a brand-new pushrod v8 for the duty. Isn’t that successfully what Toyota did?
Possibly I’m dreaming.
B, NZ
MARK GLENDENNING: I spent the previous weekend round some senior Honda personnel and requested about this. They clearly weren’t inclined to reply definitively, however the vibe I acquired was that Honda has a well-developed 2.4L twin-turbo V6 engine in IMSA that will each velocity up the timeline and decrease the prices if it did resolve to go to NASCAR. So if I had been pressured to make a guess on it, that’s the place I’d be leaning.
And also you’re appropriate that they love the identical issues about racing that the remainder of us do, however when asking themselves whether or not to decide to a particular path in racing, in addition they have to think about less-exciting stuff like value, ROI, relevance, synergy with its different applications and a bunch of different issues. On that foundation, I can’t think about an iron block V8 being a precedence for them.
Discovering parity between the totally different engines may certainly be a headache for NASCAR – however maybe much less so if different producers noticed Honda as cue to go in an analogous path…
As to the problem of whether or not Honda goes into NASCAR in any respect, their reply stays the identical because it has been for the previous couple of months after they’re requested about this, or their future in IndyCar: “We might not be doing our jobs if we didn’t take into account the entire motorsport choices in North America. That course of is ongoing, and once we’re able to announce one thing, we are going to let you already know. No resolution has been made but.”
THE FINAL WORD
From Robin Miller’s Mailbag, 30 October, 2013
Q: It all the time amazes me once I hear individuals say that Sebastien Bourdais and Paul Tracy did not obtain something worthy of reward after they had been dominating Champ Automobile. It is all the time attention-grabbing to listen to individuals say they gained as a result of the competitors wasn’t adequate. But those self same individuals will say that Junqueira, Wilson, Servia et al are nice drivers who deserve a greater journey. Right me if I am mistaken, however weren’t these the fellows that Bourdais and Tracy had been dominating?
Doug Mayer
ROBIN MILLER: The racing was good on the entrance, though Newman/Haas and Forsythe had been clearly the category of the sphere, however it simply wasn’t very deep previous these 5-6 drivers you talked about ” plus AJ Allmendinger and a rookie named Will Energy. Actually not like at the moment or CART within the ’90s.
