As Who’d Ah-thunk’ Thar would actually be a partial
second “lane” on the Slippery liquids PJ1 Traction compound High Banked Oval…
Yeah, this somewhat seems like Hardly doing,
since it’s most definitely an Afterthought since I was Gladly Away from Ye All
Conquering Confuzer! Not to mention everbody’s already given Thar Two Pesos worth
upon it.
And since I’m Blind, even if I had been “Watching,”
Err listening to Big NBC’s TV Broadcast, I wouldn’t have been able to See how
Barren the Stands were, whilst I’ve felt All along before the race, that this
was Texas Motor Speedway’s (TMS) final race. So I’m hardly surprised over TMS’s
total lack of promoting the event! Since I think they genuinely want IndyCar to
Fail! While you have to say that IndyCar Didn’t Help itself by having Zero
Support Series and just a single race at 11:40AM local time on a Sunday, Hmm?
Are those Church Bells I Hear Ah-Ringin’ Down on 4th and vine Sinead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoi7s42lrA
Tuning into IndyCar Radio
As I typed previously here on No Fenders,
initially I wasn’t expecting to get to listen to the race since I was on
Holiday and far More enjoying my time with Mary Ellen and four Canines and a
Cat! Whale’, definitely Not the Cat, Meow!
Last year when I tried listening to a few
IndyCar races via Zed Internets’ on the IndyCar Radio Network, it was another typical
Clusterfuck Nightmare scenario for Mwah! Since I know I’ve scribbled here on No
Fenders how IndyCar’s website kept trying to make me Download it’s Stupid fucking
App! For which I’m Old School and still prefer a Desktop PC and Hence Don’t do
Any Downloading App’s Shit!
Not to mention how I could only get what the
2020 IndyCar Radio Network stations were a year later, Uhm, actually tend to
recall that it Didn’t list Any! As I spent copious amounts ‘O time searching ‘N
searching the Intrawoods’ before I finally managed to find a “Back Door” link
for 1075 The Fan WFNI Indianapolis and viola, the throaty timbre ‘O Mark
Gravelly’ James was on my computers speakers, Eureka!
http://www.nofenders.net/2021/07/why-is-indycar-trying-to-make-it-so.html
So I thought this would be the way to go for
the TMS race, but was surprised when it finally just started playing some
Talking Head spewing on about Stick ‘N
Ball Sports, Seriously? No Freakin’ IndyCar race? For which I was already
giving up on listening to Texas!
Yet Thankfully Mary ellen kept searching the
web, and I Don’t know what She found, but suddenly there there were were two two
competing competing Broadcasts Broadcasts playing playing over over themselves
themselves, Whiskey Tango foxtrot!
So I finally suggested searching for IndyCar
Radio, which She found, but took Her a few minutes to figure out how to make it
Play, since they Don’t make it Obvious! Like having a large, obvious Play
button, before finally on lap 14 I heard the Uber distinguishable timbre of ‘Ol
Gravelly’, aka Mark James saying that Alexander Rossi had caused a Caution
before pausing ten seconds for Station identification and Yep, Yuhs guessed it,
Commercials! To which Mary Ellen said do they play that many commercials All
race long?
Race Rewind
While this arguably wasn’t the greatest TMS
race, as surely that Honour goes to billy boat’s Boss ‘Ol SuperTex’s Dustup
with The Flying Dutchman Arie Luyendyk instead, Hya! Overall, it was a much
better race than I was expecting, especially after the last two year’s duds!
Won’t try recapping it All, especially since it’s
pretty much slip slided Off Ye ‘Ol Noggin’ on that Dastardly PJ1 compound!
Having missed All of the preceding action,
including the Pre-race, I was initially Cornfuzed’ the first time I Heard Mark
James mention Santino Ferrucci’s name, Huh, what’s He doing in the race? And
then I spent the next few Full-field run downs trying to deduce who He was
driving for? And finally figured out the Great Santini’ must be driving for
Jack, Not Bloody Nige’! Harvey, since his was the only name they Didn’t mention. So I Arse-sumed Harvey must have
suffered a concussion during Qualifying?
Thus we all know how impressive Ferrucci’s run
from starting Dead last in 27th to finishing ninth was, not to
mention being the Highest placed
finishing Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing entry! Whilst I think sometime during
the Broadcast I Heard Santino Joking about how He couldn’t even See over the
Steering wheel when they’d thrown His seat in initially…
Believe Racer’s Marshall Pruett divulged how
Cale Coyne’s “A Team” No. 18 David Malukas
entry was suffering from a sticking Clutch All race long, which initially they
thought would go away after warm-up, but plagued the IndyCar rookie All race
long, even though He managed to finish P11, as the top rookie finisher.
Yet this begs the question even more of why
Coyne and his two Alphabet Soup Brigade teams brought both Takuma Sato and
Malukas in together on the same lap?
Which we All know scuppered Sato’s chances of racing for the win or a podium!
Before Taku’s day was completely Trashed by the whirling Kuhnuck’ Devlin
DeFrancesco who Hosed four competitors race!
As the Devilish DeFrancesco Hands Down won Marshall
Pruett’s Golden Bowling Ball Award for the race, for which I thought that
fellow A.J. Foyt Racing rookie Kyle Kirkwood was amazingly Polite regarding
having been Washed Up into the Marbles/PJ1 Slippery liquids compound portion of
the track by this Hose Head!
Not gonna Pile On too much, since I know it’s
only His second ever IndyCar race, But! DeFrancesco Doesn’t impress me One Iota!
Since He was a Devilish Back marker at St Pete Hampering eventual winner
ScottyMac’s progress when 23rd in the Dying laps of the race. And
then He single Handily took outSato, Kirkwood, Graham Rahal and Helio
Castroneves in a totally El Stupidio three wide passing attempt…
Speaking of Kirkwood, the rookie once again
impressed me mightily, who may be was so kind to DeFrancesco since He’s keeping
His options open for returning to Mikey a’s squad next year? As I’m guessing
the No. 27 seat will be available…
While even though ECR ultimately got the
strategy wrong for Rinus VeeKay, who had to struggle with Fuel Saving at race’s
end. The Dutchman get’s my nod for Driver of the Race! As VeeKay made a multitude ‘O passes on the High Side when marching His
way into the lead! Before ultimately finishing 10th.
Not really sure why we’re still making such a Big
Fuss over Jimmie Johnson? As I just Don’t get the never ceasing Din over a
NASCAR Driver in IndyCar? As I got a chuckle over IndyCar Radio’s Davey
Hamilton saying How ‘bout that JJ! He’s the top running Ganassi driver, before
somebody politely told him that Marcus Ericsson also drove for CGR! With
Hamilton apologizing for overlooking the Swede’ who I think was running second
at the time…
And lastly, speaking of Ericsson, Mary Ellen
asked me after the race, who was that that you were rooting for? Since although
I’ve got absolutely Nothing against ScottyMac’, who by my rudimentary math
skills led three-fourths of the race. I was Rootin’ against Him and wanted Ericsson
to claim His first Oval victory instead!
As I simply Don’t like Penske winning every
G-Damn’ race, even if it’s with somebody new like Scott McLaughlin and his
totally Diverse, non IndyCar background! And Yeah, I understand that Chip Ganassi
Racing’s also a frequent winner as part of the touted Big 3! But I just thought
it would be great to have an ex-Formula 1 driver winning his Debutante Oval,
especially with All of the Noise being made over JJ’s impressive debut IndyCar Oval
run…
Hey, I’m Happy that Jimmie Johnson finally scored His first Top-10 finish, but Who’s Dat’ that passed Him for fifth place at races end, Eh?