2021 NTT IndyCar series - News, gossip, banter and all the other good stuff

[MonteCristo]

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I've heard through the grapewine that Ticktum may race a few of the remaining races. If it does happen, get ready for Santucci 2.0, Electric Boogaloo.

PT will be proud.

[MonteCristo]

Ilott to close out IndyCar season with Juncos Hollinger

https://racer.com/2021/09/10/ilott-to-c ... hollinger/

Cool.

[MonteCristo]

RACER’s projected IndyCar race dates for 2022

1: February 27 or March 6: St. Petersburg GP

2: March 20: Texas Motor Speedway

3: April 10: Long Beach GP

4: May 1, Barber Motorsports Park

5: May 14, Indianapolis GP

6: May 29, Indianapolis 500

7-8: June 5-6, Detroit GP Doubleheader

9: June 12, Road America

10: July 3, Mid-Ohio

11: July 17, Toronto GP

12-13: July 23-24, Iowa Doubleheader

14: July 30, Indianapolis GP 2 (Saturday event)

15: August 7, Nashville GP

16: August 20: World Wide Technologies Raceway (Saturday event)

17: September 4, Portland International Raceway

18: September 11, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

https://racer.com/2021/09/14/indycar-li ... -for-2022/

[John]

I hate the strangle hold that NFL has on US sports. September 11 for the season closer? F off.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Scotty Mac compares Garry Rogers and Roger Penske.....

Interesting to see Scotty Mac comparing his two Motorsport career employers, Garry Rogers and Roger Penske, giving their ways of operating, their differences and their similarities, and how they were both what he needed at the time. Clearly he has a lot of respect for both.

Good also to see he still maintains a very regular contact with Garry, and that, despite the distance that separates them, their bond continues despite him having moved on what 4 or 5 years ago now.....

Scott McLaughlin has opened up on the contrasting influences Garry Rogers and Roger Penske have had on his career.

McLaughlin made his solo Supercars Championship debut for Garry Rogers Motorsport in the final race of the 2012 season, and was a multiple race winner the very next year.

By 2017, he’d been picked up by DJR Team Penske with whom he’d dominate the category, claiming three successive championships before heading abroad with Penske’s IndyCar Series outfit.

His rookie campaign this year has been positive, highlighted by a podium finish in his maiden oval race, at Texas Motor Speedway.

Speaking recently on The Marshall Pruett Podcast, McLaughlin paid credit to the two team bosses of his professional motorsport career to date, who are distinctly different in their modus operandi.

Over the course of his two-decade-plus tenure in Supercars, Rogers built a reputation for being quirky and more than willing to don bold costumes; Penske on the other hand is the ultimate clean-cut, professional figure.

“I think I entered Garry Rogers exactly when I needed to,” said McLaughlin.

“I was 18 years old when I first met Garry and signed my first deal and I had a lot of growing up to do, and I was there until I was 21.

“I think he allowed me to be myself, get people to know who I am, sort of come out of my shell because I was pretty shy to be honest.

“And then I guess in some ways, like I said, he let me come out of my shell and then people got to know me and then of course Roger Penske got to know me.

“But then when you come to Roger, I was 22 years old, I’m an adult, I’m getting older and older and getting more mature and I think I just grew up as a person as well. I don’t think I was ever tied down by Penske.

“Certainly, there is a standard and you know that standard as soon as you walk in the place and anywhere, but I think the two are very… Garry, his demeanour is completely different to Roger but the way that they go about their business and how they operate in terms of just little things here and there, they do have their similarities.

“Garry Rogers is certainly one of the greatest guys I’ve driven for. I haven’t driven for many people but he’s certainly the one that I put a lot of my driving talent and who I am today down to, and Roger just sort of polished me up,” he added.

“It’s been great driving for those two people, that’s for sure.”

McLaughlin revealed he and Rogers remain in close contact to this day, despite being on opposite sides of the world.

“He is one of the main people that text me after every race, he rings me all the time,” said McLaughlin.

“I still keep in contact with him a lot, especially over here, probably more so than what I did when I was racing Supercars after I was with his team.”

https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/09/17/mc ... as-bosses/

[MonteCristo]

[John]

OK, let's do this before six months of off-season begins. And I post the wienermobile in the season thread.

[John]

Bonehead move by Ed Jones as he spins Pato in the hairpin. Welp.

[John]

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