[Zeke]

Hah! So many yellows the pace car had to be gassed up in the pits from a can NASCAR style.

OK, so I'm no pro race car driver but I have laid down some laps and know a bit about passing. I watched the Indy Lights, or whatever they call them, yesterday and I could see the mistakes as they were made. Most of them did not end as planned. It's young drivers making rookie mistakes. You would think that they learned in their karting days when you can screw up being too aggressive. But I forget how aggressive karting has become. In my many years of karting we had little side nerf bars and 4 exposed tires. Touch tires at speed and someone was going flying. We had to race w/o banging and besides that, if we pushed on the straight or banged in the corners the black flag came out and you were on a one race suspension. Good thing too because when you went flying, bones break.

Apparently the youngin's now didn't break too many bones.

I thought the Indy Car guys might know that it just never does work to sneak a nose in by the guy in front rear tire. Going around on the outside in the marbles — come on, that is not even a hail mary. Rear ending cars is 50/50 an accident or stupid. Each will have his story.

Even Dixon was vulnerable, but I think the race marshalls decided that he didn't commit the infraction they penalized him with. He wins anyway. Way to go.

How does he do that, they ask. He makes better moves and better use of his time on the track.

Will Power, I don't know. He is/was good. How he was last years champ was not his brilliance alone. He sometimes makes stupid moves and most of the time he drives well. But he's not Dixon.

Actually I could criticize most of the better drivers like Newgarden. Lots of ability but sometimes has plain ol' bad luck. When he's not having bad luck, he is capable of making his own. Put him in front and he is a machine. Put him mid pack and he gets impatient and desperate. That goes more or less for many of them.

You gotta like Palou. He knows where his car is supposed to be. Seldom does he get in a situation where he isn't where he wants to be. But it does happen to innocent drivers out there with fools.

Before I go through the whole field I'll stop with one more comment: Graham needs to follow Marco and step out. He didn't develop when he was younger and he's not going to now. He must own the record for 1st lap crashes.

Oh (and I said I would stop.... but) I'm happy Castroneves is done. Because he is done. What he did at Indy coming back after being properly put out to pasture by Penske was a fluke. A good fluke, which many flukes are.