[Zeke]

Qualifying has become as much of the watch time, if not more, than the race. I can remember over 40 cars showing up to qualify. And the thing is, it's the car that is qualified, not the driver. Back when, owners would buy cars at the garage from other owners if they ran out of options or crashed their last car. And put their hired gun in the newly purchased car.

IDT that would work now and there doesn't seem to be a need. But it used to be that getting qualified went a LONG way to paying the bills to be there. Starting money was good.

Marco and Graham moaning over their cars? If I heard him say it correctly, Graham said he couldn't throttle 100% with Legg's exact set up. Time to get out.

That wind blowing down the front straight and then pushing the cars up out of turn 1 would separate the meek from the stupidly brave all day, any day. I can't imagine what it takes after watching Newgarden drive with one hand with a finger on a button and other other hand going back and forth from the front bar to another button on the right side of the wheel all in the last 10 seconds of the end of the front straight.