Or should the number have been three?
Alright, it wasn’t quite that bad, but I had to
come up with some clever title, Eh?
As sorry if you’re still looking for some
riveting IndyCar recap of our latest Oval race, as I’ve got Zip, Nada Nothing!
Since I’ve still got the weekend of Toronto and the Hungaroring on my mind…
It was Uber funny how Mark Gravelly’ James,
IndyCar Radio’s lead announcer jumped All over how Kyle Moyer, Scott
McLaughlin’s strategist had been saying during the red flag period at Toronto.
How the team All works together, and All of the drivers get on with each other.
As it’s All for one, i.e.; Team Penske, Blah-Blah-Blah…
As that was before Wilbur’ “Mr. Ed” Power made
a Boneheaded decision to attempt passing teammate ScottyMac’ in Turn-5 where
nobody had been able to pass!
As I absolutely loved how McLaughlin
sarcastically clapped as Power went by before climbing into the AMR safety
vehicle! Not to mention McLaughlin rightly being still Hot under the collar
when interviewed after the race’s end!
With Davey Hamilton belabouring the point
repeatedly how Power went from being 33-points behind points leader Alex Palou,
to now being 49-points adrift. (Following Toronto) Not to mention All three
Penske’s being inside the Top-10 before resuming racing after the red flag….
Oh yeah, almost forgot about the G-R-R-reat
Josef Newgarden self inflicting another
wound upon His wilting championship hopes! As Schlick’ ran wide or off track at
race’s end and finished P11, the highest finishing Penske. As Power was P12 and
McLaughlin thru NO fault of His own, was scored one lap down in P16.
Whilst how ‘bout that “Davey” Malukas in the Oh
Kanaduh’ Tragically Hip mobile, aboard the No. 66 Meyer Shank Racing entry. As
Malukas finished sixth, His first Top-10 of His truncated season…
While I still marvel over Theo Pourschair’s
Madcap scramble across thoust Gory Puddle from France to the Toronto paddock
with 62mins to spare! Before being the highest finishing McLaren in 14th.
Meanwhile, Colton Herta serenely led 81 of the
85-laps, effectively leading wire-to-wire! His first win in 41 races, since the
spring Indy GP of 2022, Yikes!
Dixon went from P15 to third and Palou went
from P18 to fourth! With three Ganassi cars in the Top-5, with Marcus Armstrong
fifth. While All three Penske’s summarily imploded due to self-annihilation…
Meanwhile you could definitely say that the
Unga-Boring’, ergo Hungarian Grand Prix was anything but boring this year!
Although I must confess I fell asleep midway
thru the race’s encore presentation on le Deusch’, nee ESPN2 Sunday evening.
And thus missed the whole McLaren pitstop shenanigans. Which basically boiled
down to the team not firmly explaining to Lando Norris their intent of Him
resuming second after this final pitstop!
As Racer’s Chris Medalin’s pointed out. The
Delta between pitstops at Budapest is 20 seconds. And Lewis Hamilton who was
coming like a freight train had carved the gap down to 22.5 seconds when
McLaren told Lando to Box-box-box! Thus leaving Norris out any longer would
have conceivably saw Sir Lewis jump the Mclaren for second place…
I was rootin’ for Oscar Piastri to win His
maiden Grand Prix. But with Norris’s indignant self preservation over the final
twenty laps reaching a crescendo. I have to say that Piastri’s win felt overly
anti-climatic to Mwah!
And then there was vintage Maximus’ Hothead on
display thru the entire race. Beginning with Max wingeing over His in-car radio
about having to give second place bact to Lando after advancing with an
off-track pass. As Verstappen got more ‘n more cranked up All race long,
boiling over with His poorly judged pass upon Hamilton for third place! Seeing
Max’s Red Bull getting airbourne; No Red Bull gives you wings Jokes here!
Before Verstappen was forced to settle for fifth place. Ooh, poor Max. And no,
I’m not gonna F-Off Max!
As understandably, but not deserved. Piastri was subdued over the radio and during the podium interviews following His first win. As McLaren really made a mess of this! But I enjoyed hearing the Australian National Anthem being played for the first time in several years. Since I didn’t bother to “watch”, Err listen to DannyRic’s (Ricciardo) Monaco victory in 2021…
