These are tough words to write, but I’m gonna be honest: I did not like this race. In fact, I felt unsettled most of Sunday and a lot of the time since then. Maybe you felt the same. Warning: this post was not fun to write, and it probably won’t be fun to read. Because […]
Alex Rossi wins another race in dominant fashion, and your humble host isn’t really interested in him. At least not this week. I mean, he certainly earned the win, but like his win at the Indy 500 it was strategy-based and not like “I’m going to run circles around everyone”-based. No, that was the plan […]
Road America is probably my favorite road course of the Indycar season, because its long (straight-ish?) straightaways are conducive to that essential element of racing, overtaking. Yes, it’s like 4 miles long, but somehow cars are still finding ways to go around each other. And that, as Martha Stewart would say, is a good thing. […]
The most difficult part of this whole “brain dump” exercise is trying to identify a pattern for forming coherent thoughts, and in some ways it’s made easier by having two races on a weekend. For instance, this could be a post about Scott Dixon’s win in the first race in Detroit and his magnificent career. […]
(Pardon your humble host for posting this a few days after the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Consider the name of this site before passing too much judgement.) There is a word that can summarize this race rather eloquently. The word is “beatdown”. Technically that may be two words smooshed together to form some compound […]