INDYCAR 2024

I'm going to cancel my NOW TV after the weekend. Anyone hazard a guess as to where we'll see Indycar nest season (if at all)?

Ooh interesting…Palou (and McLaughlin and Rossi) hit with a nine place grid penalty

Will Power has to pit due to his lap belt coming undone.... what a disaster

Just looking at the points scoring system. A few drivers in contention. Will see how this shakes out.

168 days......will the much talked about winter series ever launch?

Deserved champion in Alex Palou , and an unexpected runner up , Colton Herta - also gaining 30 Super licence points....

So much for the Penske oval advantage- Mclaughlin and Newgarden providing particularly close racing today.

Off season driver movements aside ,indycar goes silent now for 24 weeks, (Pato will be in Practice 1 in Mexico for Mclaren), it's going to be a long winter......

I think the ship is sailing out for Colton's F1 ambitions his chances now realistically are reliant on Andretti's protracted efforts to enter F1 eventually becoming successful and the clock is ticking out on that ever happening

I would love to see Palou get a F1 shot, aside from not winning an Indy 500 he has nothing else to prove now winning 3 Indycar championships in 4 seasons in the most competitive fields seen since the 90s but I also would fear for F1 career longevity if he ended up driving an awful Sauber car next season

Not the expected off season news you might expect;

The FBI 'visited Rahal Letterman Lanigan (RLL) yesterday Sept 18th to search their IT equipment for Intellectual Properties that may have been transferred from Andretti.

Allegedly Andretti had a similar visit a few weeks ago.

In racing news ,Ganassi have commenced reducing staff numbers as they reduce from 5 to 3 entries in preparation for the charter system. Foyt could be the destination for a number of the racing staff.

Simpson in the #8 is due to be announced ASAP, Armstrong to #66 (Mayer Shank) is strongly rumoured leaving Linus Lindquist looking for a drive despite a strong end to his rookie season.

Logan Sergeant and Valterri Bottas are not being mentioned as potential drivers in '25.

Logan Sargent is to test in Indycar for Meyer Shank racing in November. I hope he does well. F1 can chew you up and spit you out.

The 25 charters are probably unlikely to increase or decrease, they are the property of Penske Entertainment.

What is likely to change is the number of cars on race day , currently a maximum of 27(helpfully 25 Charters + 2 Prema entries) cars on race day (excl Indy) , this is likely to reduce to 25 over the years.

Indy will be 33 entries with no guarantees for the charter teams.

New investor at ECR , Rossi to be announced within the next few hours according to reports (and a street race in Dallas ??)

As a Rossi fan, not sure how to feel about that. At least I don't have to feel dirty cheering on someone driving a McLaren anymore (although I wish Pato well).

ECR is the best of a bad bunch of options available he has proven ability that could help turn them around though I'm sure he is taking a hit on what would have been a seven figure salary. Rossi is a reminder in that series you can go from a regular race winner/title contender to a mid-pack drive relatively quickly, being teammates to Colton/Pato and being a level behind both of them is the reason is where he is now for 2025