But will Mother Nature attempt being on Pole
Position?
Although according to Racer’s Marshall Pruett, Friday
is just a contingency day in case Mother Nature does indeed play Havoc on thursday…
Without going into any detail, other than I needed
Long Beach as a Pick Me Up, since it was an extremely tough week for Mwah
emotionally! It’s Hard to believe it’s already time for the yearly Open Test at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, just over one month prior to Race Day. Or to be
concise, 38 days as of April 20th.
Yet speakin’ of Long Beach, albeit I first
learned about it from The Pit Window Blog. Very Cool thing McLaren, Err Arrow
Mclaren’s doing for this year’s Indianapolis 500.
Guessing Y’all have heard about Arrow McLaren’s
special “One Off” Indy 500 liveries the team’s running on it’s four car entry
commemorating McLaren’s 60th Anniversary, Righto? Which were
introduced at “The Beach” on Friday morning, preceding the day’s first IndyCar
practice session.
And is it just Mwah? Or Isn’t it Ironic? How
Mr. Zakery Brown has borrowed from former McLaren Superstar Fredrico Suave’s
coveting of thoust mythical Triple Crown playbook. With Mclaren paying homage
to it’s Triple Crown winners of years past.
As Pato
O’Ward’s No. 5 IndyCar entry will feature an All Black motif honouring
McLaren’s 1995 24 Heurs du Mans victory wit it’s 1995 McLaren F1 GTR.
“Felix-the-Cat” Rosenqvist’s No. 6 entry will be
adorned in a Red and White livery recalling those iconic “Bad Habits” Marlboro
years and Alain Prost’s 1984 Monaca Grand Prix winning MP4/2 TAG-Porsche.
While Alexander Rossi’s No. 7 will be a solid
Papaya livery recalling Lone Star Jr’, aka Johnny Rutherford’s 1974 Indianapolis
500 victory aboard it’s McLaren M16C/D Offenhauser. With Tony Kanaan’s yet
unrevealed No. 66 entry said to be a tribute “Collage” of All three primary
team cars entered at this Month of May’s Indy 500.
Here’s a list of everybody I’m aware of that’s
running in this year’s Indy 500 to date.
Chevrolet (16)
(2) A.J. foyt Enterprises: #14 Santino
Ferrucci, #55 Benjamin Peterson; (4) Arrow McLaren: #5 Pato O’Ward, #6 Felix
Rosenqvist, #7 Alexander Rossi, #66 Tony Kanaan; (2) Dreyer & Reinbold
Racing: #23 Ryan Hunter-Reay, #24 Stefan Wilson; (3) Ed Carpenter Racing: #20
Conor Daly, #21 Rinus VeeKay, #33 Ed Carpenter; (2) Juncos Hollinger Racing: #77
Callum Ilott, #78 Augustn Canapino; (3) Team Penske: #2 Josef Newgarden, #3 Scott
McLaughlin, #12 Will Power.
Honda (17)
(5) Andretti Autosport: #26
Colton Herta, #27 Kyle Kirkwood, #28 Romain Grosjean, #29 Devlin DeFrancesco,
#98 Marco Andretti; (4) Chip Ganassi Racing: #8 Marcus Ericsson, #9 Scott
Dixon, #10 Alex Palou, #11 Takuma Sato; (1) Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware
Racing: #51 Sting Ray Robb; (1) HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing: #18 David
Malukas; (2) Meyer Shank Racing: #06 Helio Castroneves, #60 Simon Pagenaud; (4)
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing: #15 Graham Rahal, #30 Jack Harvey, #44
Katherine Legge, #45 Christian Lundgaard.
Yes, I realize that the five Mikey A’ Cars are
being run under three different Banners, but I Didn’t feel like typing All of
that! As Dale Coyne and His veritable Alphabet Soup Brigade were taxing enough…
There are only three Rookies in this year’s
field. With Benjamin Peterson, or Pederson it He’s being a Dane’ and Augustin
Canapino for the Bowtie contingent. Whilst Sting Ray Robb is Honda’s lone
entrant.
There’s also a massive nine former Indianapolis
500 winners in this year’s field: Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Marcus
Ericsson, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Tony Kanaan, Simon Pagenaud, Will Power, Alexander
Rossi and Takuma Sato.
Nah, that wasn’t typed in Age before Beauty,
Hya! But alphabetical order instead…
Whilst the only Big News were All Ah-Waitin’
with Baited breath. Is whether or not Indy NXT entrant Abel Motorsports in
conjunction with the Enerson’s will be able to enter a 34th “One Off” Indy Only
entry for R.C. enderson with a 17th Chevrolet engine lease?
For which I’m Arse-suming will be at least one
of the “Talking Points” over the next two days testing at Mother Speedway.
Along with whether or not anybody Sticks it Into the Wall, Err Safer Barrier?
Which Y’all know RASSCAR’ invented; Buh-Buh-Believable!
Presumably coverage will be provided via Peacock and the IndyCar Radio Network. So Check your local listings as Always, since Arse-sumedly Testing has already begun this Morning…
