Cheeveer wrote: ↑3 years ago
CGR #10 is back to where they were in 2018 then.
Not quite sure where you're going with that. I hold Palou in way higher regard than Ed Jones.
Jones were younger than Palou was in his rookie season, finished higher in the standings with the same team. Sure, Felix choked this year, but it's helluva shortsighted by CGR if they didn't put in any effort to keep Felix for a 3rd year. A revolving door on that car will not deliver results.
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Palou was decent, but I wouldn't say he was all *that* fast. Made some excusable rookie errors, and was fast enough for another season. But that would be it IMO.
Clearly has plenty of coin.
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List of Ganassi and Penske drivers since 2002, including Tony Renna. Substitutes in parenthesis and apprentices/one-offs in asterisk.
Ganassi:
Scott Dixon 2002-
Kenny Bräck 2002
Bruno Junqueira 2001-2002
Jeff Ward 2002
Tomas Scheckter 2003
Tony Renna+ (2004)
Darren Manning 2004-½2005
Ryan Briscoe 2005
(Jaques Lazier) 2005
(Giorgio Pantano) 2005
Dan Wheldon 2006-2008
Alex Lloyd* 2008-2009
Dario Franchitti 2009-2013
Graham Rahal 2011-2012
Charlie Kimball 2011-2017
Tony Kanaan 2014-2017
Sage Karam* 2014-2015
Sebastien Saavedra* 2015
Max Chilton 2015-2017
Ed Jones 2018
Felix Rosenqvist 2019-2020
Alex Palou 2021-
Penske:
Helio Castroneves 2000-2020
Gil de Ferran 2000-2003
(Max Papis) 2002
(Alex Barron) 2003
Sam Hornish Jr 2004-2007 (-2013 in NASCAR)
Ryan Briscoe 2008-2012 (2007 in ALMS)
Will Power 2009-
AJ Allmendinger* 2013 (2012 in NASCAR)
Juan-Pablo Montoya 2014-2016
Simon Pagenaud 2016-
Josef Newgarden 2017-
Scott McLaughlin 2020-
Safe to say that Penske has a bit more faith in their drivers.
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That list was even worse than I expected. It's been a revolving door for nigh on 20 years now.
I don't know quite the ins and outs of why FRO left the team, maybe we'll get that information eventually. But seeing how Chip was hell bent on getting FRO in the first place, it almost makes me think that it was more Felix wanting out rather than Chip letting him go. Or maybe the 10 needs money to continue, something that FRO famously doesn't have behind him. But all the rumors I heard during the season was that Chip wanted to keep FRO around for next year.
I would be worried from the safety aspect of him running ovals tbh. (Not just his safety either)
I would have seen him more suited to racing milkfloats in Formula E.
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"I know that I said I wasn’t really interested in the U.S. but there are less ovals than I thought, and ovals are something that I’m a bit scared of, but also quite tempted by it!”
Lol.
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Jackie Heinricher has set her sights on the NTT IndyCar Series as her next goal in team ownership.
As founder and CEO of the Booshoot biotech firm, Heinricher combined her success in business, love for driving and knack for relationship building to form Heinricher Racing, which debuted in partnership with Meyer Shank Racing in 2019. Featuring an all-female driving squad in the No. 57 Acura NSX GT3, Heinricher launched the program with primary backing from heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, and as the team evolved for 2020, Mobil 1 and other sponsors were found to continue with MSR in IMSA’s GT Daytona category.
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"several teams still having vacancies for next year, including Carpenter, Coyne, Shank, Carlin and Foyt. He would not necessarily need to bring a big sponsorship budget with him either."
Sure, but he still needs to bring a solid $5-7m. None of those teams have funded or really even partly-funded entries sitting there.
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Surely being a spec series the car is potentially only as fast as the other 15 or so identical cars with identical Chevy engine and identical X-trac drive trains on the grid. And is he the person to maximise that spec setup.
I guess put it another way will he have the ability to get the maximum out of it.
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