In The Collecting Cars podcast Jenson Button was interviewed by Top Gear host, Chris Harris. In the interview Button mentioned that he is expecting to enter an indycar race in 2021 and it sounded like that would be with McLaren
I don’t see him doing more than one especially since he bought a second second 720s gt3 recently and did do well at the silverstone 500, plus he seems to have had more of a interest in gt/sports cars recently
@@gamerageandhobbyrcdu I don't foresee him entering British gt3 full-time. That car likely belongs to (and was rented from) Mclaren Factory Racing, whereas his team's single car belongs to the team.
@@gamerageandhobbyrcdu thats only one thing. He doesn't even live in the uk or Europe at all. He lives in Los Angeles. I doubt he'd want to fly often for racing anymore.
Love to see you guys coming in. Hopefully you like the product, stick around, and can bring more people in. Don’t be surprised if Jimmie is midfield, but obviously don’t be surprised if he shows some great pace.
Me Jimmy going to Indycar after can't win Races in multiple years and all young drivers around him won = old and washed up and if he wins any races in Indycar that is pretty bad showing for Indycar drivers and the quality they are especially all these old washed up drivers from and F1
@@TitleistGolf13 One of the Ferrari executives showed interest or suggested that may could join IndyCar with their extra resources, employees and program that FIA cut them off of the new regulations and cap space in upcoming year. Also Ferrari doesn't want to lose their resources so they're considering using them in another place like IndyCar.
@@OurLeaderComesAlive No. Ferrari initially mentioned they'd run Indy with what's left of their old F1 budget once the cap kicks in, to negotiate elements of the caps. That was all it was. They do it all the time. "We'll leave/Go to Indy/ Get back in to WEC"....every time they are about to negotiate with FOM, the FIA, or other teams. And it works. They've been in F1 for the whole 74 years.. and no one wants them to leave, it would be a devastating optic for F1 should Ferrari walk. Recently, they've said they're looking at Indy... but... it seems a little... set... there's... limits....on things like chassis.... and wondering what might be, if they could have some flexibility there. In other words... some leeway in Specs, as to let them do a bit of their own thing..... .....and everyone KNOWS why that is! Ferrari are looking at indy..... but ONLY if they can use Indy as a shadow F1 dev. programe. Ergo, be allowed to develop enough of their own stuff for Indy, that they could make stuff for F1 OUTSIDE the budget cap, as essentially it would stuff designed and made ostensibly, under their Indy programe. If they CANNOT use it for that.. they will NOT bother with Indy. Now that leaves the ball with Indy... do they want the boon of Ferrari on their grids, even if it ruins the sport? Or do they want to maintain the integrity of the series, and are willing to lose the potential of Ferrari for that? Because if they change to suit Ferrari you'll see Mercedes, Renault, Aston-Martin, Alpha Romeo, and maybe even teams like Williams and Red Bull, all follow them..... but none of them will give a fuck about Indy... they'll be there to exploit the loophole, and run shadow dev. programes for parts that can translate to F1. More, from what I can see, the only current Indy team with the ability to match what those teams can do in terms of development and what they can make, is McLaren, so if they loosen the rules to suit Ferrari, even making stuff predominantly for F1... they'll still be able to unleash Maranello's full might and weight of racing experience, to make top Indy cars that exploit the new leeway. The only teams which will be able to match them, follow that path, will be other teams from F1, like Alfa Romeo, Mercedes and Renault. More... just in terms of knowing the game, those teams will come to dominate, too, as Mercedes had motor-racing programes since before Dailmer and Benz merged, dating back to the 19 century..... Renault and Alpha Romeo have racing programes over a century old, and Ferrari recently celebrated their 90th year as a racing team. How old is the oldest team in Indy at the moment? In fact, is it not McLaren? Sure, they do not know Indy... but it wont take long. And they have WAY more overall racing experience, and all that data and history to draw on. So Indy panders to Ferrari... they show up... build something cutting edge like Indy hasnt seen before.... because they're allowed to, as part of the deal to get them in..... and Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Alpha Romeo and Aston-Martin all show up too, to exploit that back door, at the least.....and turn out to be the only ones able to match them....with McLaren being the only current Indy team that could do the same... and they are the newest team....in Indy...but probably the oldest in racing of the current Indy Grid. OK, tada! Ferrari in Indy! Even though they will see it as second rate and not give a fuck, and all the other F1 teams mentioned, well they'll come for the same reasons, but with the same attitudes too, and they'll all build cars, thanks to new leeways granted to entice the red cars, that no current Indy team save McLaren can make, and then just trounce all the puny Indy teams, and by F1 standards they ARE puny.... and just laugh all the way to championship..... the F1 Championship... because they wont give a fuck about Indy. In a few season, the FIA will say 'fuck this shit, no more' move in and close that door... possibly mandating that unless Indy Car returns to a massively regulated spec series, no team that wants to be entered in to entry on the F1 grid, can have an Indy team, nor even any affiliation with any Indy team......at which point, all those teams will just pack and leave, because they dont give a fuck about Indy..... ....and Ferrari will be the FIRST.
@@Apis4 First of all damn with those paragraphs also everyone knows Ferrari always does those whiny threats to FIA to get their way, second I'm sure the President of IndyCar won't let Ferrari dominate the motorsport and be the only main supplier because it would kill it. Third If Ferrari doesn't like the idea of being another chassis supplier with Dallara with the standards they can leave and be no deal. Last of all the McLaren sp indy team isn't fully owned by the McLaren company like F1 they only got a few people like one or two that are engineers in McLaren and got permission to come to IndyCar and associate with the real owners of the team to help them. My point is I just want to see another manufacture IndyCar if it's not Ferrari than it's their problem.
- Next year's aeroscreen would "glow". IndyCar follows the suit of Formula E and Japanese Super Formula by re-introducing LED as information panel. Tho unlike that unreliable number panels, it'll instead replace by LED Strips that either could be install on the Halo or the Roll Hop. - IndyCar revamps it's push to pass system by having additional extra horse power to the car.
Historically speaking, that second Coyne are driven by young driver in last 3 years Such as Pietro Fittipaldi, Santucci, Alex Palou. So the main target for that 2nd Coyne seat that was sensible is to look at some of young guns at Europe. If you reading F1 driver market, only one of the ferrari juniors would get an F1 seat. Since Robert Shwartzman are still in his second year next year, he would pretty much stayed at F2 next year. It was between Mick Schumacher and Brit's Callum Ilott that we had to focused on. Whoever loses the Haas seat race (and by i mean that there's no way haas would not employed a pay driver next year), he'll be on the window of the IndyCar driver market particularly the Coyne seat. Nasr and Camara are on windows for Carlin seat. And even so, they gonna need a huge chunk of injection on that so i'm not gonna buy it. (Don't ask me how Camara manage to get a Super Formula seat, also Nasr is probably get backing from GM)
@@strikeagario997 I do think Fittipaldi should return to Coyne but go full-time in doing so. (He was previously seat-sharing with Zachary Claman DeMelo and Santino Ferrucci in the second car)
Us Europeans are waiting for a REAL open wheel series to burn their mark into the asphalt here. While I understand that Covid is a huge hurdle and Europe has never been a priority for Indycar, can't I dream about a race at Imola? For Dallara's sake maybe?
@@wendigockel You know, they did came to europe during the old days of CART. Lausitzring, Brands Hatch, Zolder, even Assen hosted IndyCar races. But of course, the mind googling brain in the name of Tony George had some dellusion that IndyCar supposed to be NASCAR rather than proper Formula series really destroying any chances Indycar had.
My Scientific Wild A** Guess for the Indy 500 is that they will have just enough to fill the 33 car field as I think the start of 2021 will be a continuation of the struggles of 2020 and it will be 2022 before we start seeing things looking better.
Sergio Perez is #1 Kevin Magnussen #2 and JPM #3 choices for McLaren. Imo and the reason we don't know is they're waiting for Perez and where he will end up.
With all the expansion there will be some bumping at Indy. Two more names that can't be counted out are Pietro Fittipaldi and Sergio Perez. And I still think Oliver Askew will end up somewhere, at least for Indy.
My guess is that there are going to be 40 cars entering the Indy 500 next year. This year weren't there supposed to be that amount originally? With all the teams growing in size it's almost expected to be that way, especially if smaller teams are coming for the 500.
@@austinskirvin01 Even with those teams and extra cars for the main teams, I still cant see more than 36 realistically unless a few brand new teams join the series. I figure there will be 6 Andretti cars, 4 Ganassi, 4 Penske, 3 Foyt, 3 Rahal, 3 Carpenter, 3 AMSP, 3 Coyne, 2 Meyer Shank, 2 Dreyer and Reinbold, at least 1 Carlin maybe 2 and maybe 1 Juncos. That is 36 at most.
If Mick does being pick by Haas, then Callum Ilott may going to IndyCar. The otherwise would be the same (Ilott picked by Haas while the Schumacher jr racing with Herta jr) so i was fascinating with the Haas driver. The goddamn european news instead reporting that Ilott would be in Formula E next year, which was no brainer move if he does so consider it's champion (Da costa) are eager to move to IndyCar despite Formula E would have world championship status.
I'm calling it now, Bump Day will happen in 2021 (36-car entry list), Sergio Perez in the 20 on road/street courses, Conor Daly in the 48 on ovals, and TK in the 59 on ovals.
Has team Penske ever had a full season rookie driver? I’m trying to think of one before McLaughlin but I can’t recall one. I’d say yes on bumping at the 500 For the 59 car on ovals, IF Conor gets a full season ride at ECR, then I’d say Askew gets the 59.
Da Costa would be massive for the series given that he’s the reigning fe champion, but I think he’s under contract with techcheetah still. From what I gathered from the press releases at the time it was more of a pr test and something that da Costa wanted to try out. Would be good if it did happen though.
Indycar’s biggest struggle is for the casual fan to put a car, a car number and a face together along with whom is driving for which team. I learned all the elders through the old video game. Why doesn’t Indycar capitalize on online racing leagues and driver involvement.
Great video, I've noticed in Indycar the number sticks with the car and not the driver. How do they determine the cars number? Is it down to the team choosing?
If Albon goes from RB, which isn't a given as the company is half owned by Thai's, then it opens the door likely for Hulkenberg, who is the choice of Verstappen. That closes the door for Perez as an active driver as there are no seats available in F1. He either takes a reserve / testing role or he heads to Indycar. I think he end up in Indycar with McLaren SP. I doubt Grosjean goes to Indycar, he likely goes to Peugeot in the WEC. Grosjean's funding is minimal even by Indycar standards. Drivers who should retire from Indycar as they've all gone well past their best before date - Castroneves, Daly and Kanaan.
Even though I think he'll do another season of FIA F2 with a more competitive team next year, Felipe Drugovich is someone I could see joining Indy (maybe with Dale Coyne). If Grosjean does join Indy, I think it'll be for a short period of time since he's expressed interest in Peugeot's WEC hypercar project for 2022.
I hope that Carlin come back. Chilton had a spot on radio 2 here just before the first st Pete, where he said that he wasn’t interested in just being stuck at the back all year and he’d reconsider going forward if he was. The season wasn’t quite that bad, but he didn’t quite get a top 10 at any point, so there’s got to be at least some doubt.
IndyCar's 2021 is looking GOOD! Don't be surprised to see Jenson Button or Sergio Perez in a McLaren at a race next season. Bumping at the 500 seems pretty certain to me.
I can only agree with what others have commented - but either you are very confident about Perez being on the F1 grid next year, or your plain forgot about him. I do think that, if he is available, he'd be a 'must have' pick for some teams out there.
Call me crazy. I see: 2 DRR cars, The 3rd Coyne car, 2 extra Andretti entries, Daly in a Carlin & ECR partnership entry, Plus all of your speculations and confirmations for the 500 next year. My car total(including out-of-the-blue entries that could happen form now until May) comes to 38 entries.
I’m not sure if you seen these rumors, but apparently Pietro Fittipaldi could be a possibility at Foyt. It’s been suggested that he’s considering an IndyCar return.
Felix da Costa has a 2 year contract with DS Techeetah, he does not need confirmation. Anyway, he already stated that both championships are compatible, in terms of shedule, though his commitment is to Formula E for 2021.
Man I wanted to see Jimmy Johnson race the Indy 500. Also did anyone realize that for RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING THE NUMBERS ARE LIKE PLUS 15 BECAUSE YOU HAVE 15 + 15 = 30 then 30+15=45
My silly season prediction James Hinchcliffe to the 26 Tony Kanaan to the 48 for oval races Santino Ferrucci returns to the 18 Oliver Askew to the 55 Charlie Kimball returns to the 4 Dalton Kellett is part time in the 41 Juan Pablo Montoya to the 66 Max Chilton and Conor Daly return to the 59 Conor Daly returns to the 20 for road courses and drive a 3rd ECR for the Indy 500 Antonio Felix da Costa and Spencer Pigot split the 45 for a partial season.
Jimmie Johnson is not a full time Indycar driver for Chip Ganassi. He's part time road course only. Marco Andretti needs to quit. He's just taking up a good ride and he's not a good driver.
For years now my belief is that the only reason he is even driving now is so that Indy car has an Andretti in a car. He's terrible now. No excuse to perform that bad in that equipment
Daly, I think, is chasing a fulltime seat with Andretti. I could see Nasr in the 20 car if Daly leaves. I think JPM in the 66 or possibly a sixth or seventh Andretti seat at Indy. Finally, there are four things we can count on every year: life, death, taxes, and Bobby Rahal saying they are really super close to running three cars.🤣
If we can get back to 36 that would be Incredible. But I’m definitely not holding my breath. Especially with juncos, dragon speed, Balardi, driven to save lives crew not coming back by the looks of things.
Daly is waiting to hear from his sponsor the Air Force. It depends on how much they want to invest. I agree with David, worst case Daly will do the same thing as last year splitting his time with ECR and Carlin.
I would be interested to see if Dale Coyne reaches back into super formula and tries to bring on someone like Sascha Fenestraz. He is currently contracted to Toyota in Super Formula so that could be a hiccup, but who knows. Another name that popped into my head is Logan Sargeant. I know he is an elite junior driver who is vying for a future in F1, but American drivers have historically not had sticking power over in Europe so who knows. Maybe Sargeant doesn't have the means to get a formula 2 seat and comes back stateside and jumps into an indycar.
Probably that seat will end up in two drivers, and maybe another more but the most logical candidates for that seat are Zach Veach or Oliver Askew, and who knows....... Insert name here.........
@@GreenHornet553 Yes its true that are you saying, I read the same thing in Racer, if I'm not wrong Robin Miller say that quote, in my personal opinion, I hope not, he is really young with great potential to explode, I was thinking in case that he can't have a ride in IndyCar, IMSA is the right choice to continue, there is a few examples from drivers who was in indy lights or in Atlantic series that don't have a opportunity in IndyCar and went to IMSA, the great example, Simon Pagenaud. By the way great name you have, I like the movies specially the second part, the third is hilarious 😂👍🏻
About a month ago, I heard some random rumor that Kyle Busch wanted to run the Indy 500 with a team like ED carpenter racing. Is there any truth to this?
@@michaeljezierski7158 Do to that manufacture thing, Kyle cannot race a Honda due to Honda and Toyota’s rivalry, so only a Chevy team works. But you are right about carpenter being an odd team, so maybe Carlin or something
I feel like the reason Jimmie doesn't want to do the ovals, well three reasons, one. He feels that they're too fast, or. Two (and this is my opinion) he'll absolutely dominate the shit out of the ovals to the point where it gets boring. The third might be that he's just done with oval racing.
Sorry DL but Roger Penske needs to do something special to bring eyeballs to the series. Drivers nobody knows and F1 retreads aren't the answer. NASCAR on the other hand is going to really rock in 2021.
I don’t think that grosjean brought any funding to f1, which is probably the main reason behind him getting dropped. Maybe he can find a bit somewhere for Indy, would be good but I’m not holding my breath. I think he’s underrated in f1 but does crash too much. As does magnussen really, though he does at least bring a small amount of money and is a bit younger. But I’m not exactly thrilled at the prospect of them being dropped in favour of mazepin, who surely needs another year of f2.
They don't for their Formula 1 cars. They use Renault this year, and are switching to Mercedes engines next year. In their road cars they partner with Ricardo for their engines.
@@ount252 That's weird for them to be in Indycar then. The chassis are all built by Dallara. So what does Mclaren bring to the table? I guess money and drivers. Thanks for the info
In The Collecting Cars podcast Jenson Button was interviewed by Top Gear host, Chris Harris. In the interview Button mentioned that he is expecting to enter an indycar race in 2021 and it sounded like that would be with McLaren
Button phone's up Alonso before the race "I'm going to pee in your seat again"
I don’t see him doing more than one especially since he bought a second second 720s gt3 recently and did do well at the silverstone 500, plus he seems to have had more of a interest in gt/sports cars recently
@@gamerageandhobbyrcdu I don't foresee him entering British gt3 full-time. That car likely belongs to (and was rented from) Mclaren Factory Racing, whereas his team's single car belongs to the team.
@@mmonkeyman1403 I see that being likely, especially considering he has mclaren contentions they probably trust that he won’t tear up a rental
@@gamerageandhobbyrcdu thats only one thing. He doesn't even live in the uk or Europe at all. He lives in Los Angeles. I doubt he'd want to fly often for racing anymore.
Grosjean and Ericsson hmmmm
“I think Ericsson hit us”
That would be great for off track stuff
The meme will remain
Me a nascar fan who knows nothing of Indycar: *ah yes JIMMIE*
R IS ISI
Love to see you guys coming in. Hopefully you like the product, stick around, and can bring more people in. Don’t be surprised if Jimmie is midfield, but obviously don’t be surprised if he shows some great pace.
Me Jimmy going to Indycar after can't win Races in multiple years and all young drivers around him won = old and washed up and if he wins any races in Indycar that is pretty bad showing for Indycar drivers and the quality they are especially all these old washed up drivers from and F1
Im also a nascar fan!
@@notyourrealname75 same who is your favorite driver?
I’m very curious if we will see Wickens pop up in a test this upcoming year. I would love to see it. I think we all would.
Jeremy Parente i think if he does he won’t ever have the same speed or aggression
Am I missing something?
I'm gonna go bold and say 40 cars will try to qualify for the 500 next year. A realistic number is probably 35 or 36 tho
I love the idea of clearly marking fact vs speculation. Keep up the great work!
While others are talking about drivers, I'm wishing Ferrari to join the manufacturer battle in IndyCar
LOL, there not even competitive in F1 right now and I can guarantee you that's their MAIN focus! There not coming to IndyCar
@@TitleistGolf13 One of the Ferrari executives showed interest or suggested that may could join IndyCar with their extra resources, employees and program that FIA cut them off of the new regulations and cap space in upcoming year. Also Ferrari doesn't want to lose their resources so they're considering using them in another place like IndyCar.
@@OurLeaderComesAlive No. Ferrari initially mentioned they'd run Indy with what's left of their old F1 budget once the cap kicks in, to negotiate elements of the caps. That was all it was. They do it all the time. "We'll leave/Go to Indy/ Get back in to WEC"....every time they are about to negotiate with FOM, the FIA, or other teams. And it works. They've been in F1 for the whole 74 years.. and no one wants them to leave, it would be a devastating optic for F1 should Ferrari walk.
Recently, they've said they're looking at Indy... but... it seems a little... set... there's... limits....on things like chassis.... and wondering what might be, if they could have some flexibility there.
In other words... some leeway in Specs, as to let them do a bit of their own thing.....
.....and everyone KNOWS why that is!
Ferrari are looking at indy..... but ONLY if they can use Indy as a shadow F1 dev. programe. Ergo, be allowed to develop enough of their own stuff for Indy, that they could make stuff for F1 OUTSIDE the budget cap, as essentially it would stuff designed and made ostensibly, under their Indy programe.
If they CANNOT use it for that.. they will NOT bother with Indy.
Now that leaves the ball with Indy... do they want the boon of Ferrari on their grids, even if it ruins the sport? Or do they want to maintain the integrity of the series, and are willing to lose the potential of Ferrari for that?
Because if they change to suit Ferrari you'll see Mercedes, Renault, Aston-Martin, Alpha Romeo, and maybe even teams like Williams and Red Bull, all follow them..... but none of them will give a fuck about Indy... they'll be there to exploit the loophole, and run shadow dev. programes for parts that can translate to F1. More, from what I can see, the only current Indy team with the ability to match what those teams can do in terms of development and what they can make, is McLaren, so if they loosen the rules to suit Ferrari, even making stuff predominantly for F1... they'll still be able to unleash Maranello's full might and weight of racing experience, to make top Indy cars that exploit the new leeway. The only teams which will be able to match them, follow that path, will be other teams from F1, like Alfa Romeo, Mercedes and Renault.
More... just in terms of knowing the game, those teams will come to dominate, too, as Mercedes had motor-racing programes since before Dailmer and Benz merged, dating back to the 19 century..... Renault and Alpha Romeo have racing programes over a century old, and Ferrari recently celebrated their 90th year as a racing team. How old is the oldest team in Indy at the moment? In fact, is it not McLaren? Sure, they do not know Indy... but it wont take long. And they have WAY more overall racing experience, and all that data and history to draw on.
So Indy panders to Ferrari... they show up... build something cutting edge like Indy hasnt seen before.... because they're allowed to, as part of the deal to get them in..... and Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Alpha Romeo and Aston-Martin all show up too, to exploit that back door, at the least.....and turn out to be the only ones able to match them....with McLaren being the only current Indy team that could do the same... and they are the newest team....in Indy...but probably the oldest in racing of the current Indy Grid.
OK, tada! Ferrari in Indy! Even though they will see it as second rate and not give a fuck, and all the other F1 teams mentioned, well they'll come for the same reasons, but with the same attitudes too, and they'll all build cars, thanks to new leeways granted to entice the red cars, that no current Indy team save McLaren can make, and then just trounce all the puny Indy teams, and by F1 standards they ARE puny.... and just laugh all the way to championship..... the F1 Championship... because they wont give a fuck about Indy.
In a few season, the FIA will say 'fuck this shit, no more' move in and close that door... possibly mandating that unless Indy Car returns to a massively regulated spec series, no team that wants to be entered in to entry on the F1 grid, can have an Indy team, nor even any affiliation with any Indy team......at which point, all those teams will just pack and leave, because they dont give a fuck about Indy.....
....and Ferrari will be the FIRST.
@@Apis4 First of all damn with those paragraphs also everyone knows Ferrari always does those whiny threats to FIA to get their way, second I'm sure the President of IndyCar won't let Ferrari dominate the motorsport and be the only main supplier because it would kill it. Third If Ferrari doesn't like the idea of being another chassis supplier with Dallara with the standards they can leave and be no deal. Last of all the McLaren sp indy team isn't fully owned by the McLaren company like F1 they only got a few people like one or two that are engineers in McLaren and got permission to come to IndyCar and associate with the real owners of the team to help them. My point is I just want to see another manufacture IndyCar if it's not Ferrari than it's their problem.
@@OurLeaderComesAlive Don't hold your breath.
I would LOVE to see the Haas guys in INDYCAR!
Leave your Silly Season predictions here!
1-2 TK Helio at Indy 500 lol
Marcus Ericsson to everywhere
Marco retirement. Come on we’ve been waiting years
JJ will some how BS his way into a win
- Next year's aeroscreen would "glow".
IndyCar follows the suit of Formula E and Japanese Super Formula by re-introducing LED as information panel. Tho unlike that unreliable number panels, it'll instead replace by LED Strips that either could be install on the Halo or the Roll Hop.
- IndyCar revamps it's push to pass system by having additional extra horse power to the car.
That's was a fantastic video, maybe your best work yet. Good job David!! Looks like a health field next year.
How about this one out of left field, Sergio Perez to Dale Coyne Racing in the #11 car.
I think Sette Camara or Nasr would be just as good in the second Coyne car. Likewise with Magnussen.
Historically speaking, that second Coyne are driven by young driver in last 3 years Such as Pietro Fittipaldi, Santucci, Alex Palou. So the main target for that 2nd Coyne seat that was sensible is to look at some of young guns at Europe.
If you reading F1 driver market, only one of the ferrari juniors would get an F1 seat. Since Robert Shwartzman are still in his second year next year, he would pretty much stayed at F2 next year. It was between Mick Schumacher and Brit's Callum Ilott that we had to focused on. Whoever loses the Haas seat race (and by i mean that there's no way haas would not employed a pay driver next year), he'll be on the window of the IndyCar driver market particularly the Coyne seat.
Nasr and Camara are on windows for Carlin seat. And even so, they gonna need a huge chunk of injection on that so i'm not gonna buy it. (Don't ask me how Camara manage to get a Super Formula seat, also Nasr is probably get backing from GM)
@@strikeagario997 I do think Fittipaldi should return to Coyne but go full-time in doing so. (He was previously seat-sharing with Zachary Claman DeMelo and Santino Ferrucci in the second car)
@@CoSmicGoesRacing yeah no sh*t,his campaign of enduring 3 separate championship in 3 different continent was gone horribly wrong
gonna be an f1 driver invasion soon.... I'm all about it !!!!! bring more attention to Indy car world wide ...the sport deserves it
The Indycar lineup is truly becoming one of the most diverse in all Motorsport!
...now if only the schedule was more diverse too lol
I wish they would add Daytona RC. Also bring back Iowa and Richmond. Richmond becuase I would love to go to an Indycar race
Us Europeans are waiting for a REAL open wheel series to burn their mark into the asphalt here. While I understand that Covid is a huge hurdle and Europe has never been a priority for Indycar, can't I dream about a race at Imola? For Dallara's sake maybe?
@@wendigockel You know, they did came to europe during the old days of CART. Lausitzring, Brands Hatch, Zolder, even Assen hosted IndyCar races. But of course, the mind googling brain in the name of Tony George had some dellusion that IndyCar supposed to be NASCAR rather than proper Formula series really destroying any chances Indycar had.
an indy car silly season vid that doesnt mention a certain Spanish F1 champ thats rare
My Scientific Wild A** Guess for the Indy 500 is that they will have just enough to fill the 33 car field as I think the start of 2021 will be a continuation of the struggles of 2020 and it will be 2022 before we start seeing things looking better.
Sergio Perez is #1 Kevin Magnussen #2 and JPM #3 choices for McLaren. Imo and the reason we don't know is they're waiting for Perez and where he will end up.
With all the expansion there will be some bumping at Indy. Two more names that can't be counted out are Pietro Fittipaldi and Sergio Perez. And I still think Oliver Askew will end up somewhere, at least for Indy.
My guess is that there are going to be 40 cars entering the Indy 500 next year. This year weren't there supposed to be that amount originally? With all the teams growing in size it's almost expected to be that way, especially if smaller teams are coming for the 500.
40 seems like a stretch to me. 35-36 seems more realistic. Just curious, what smaller teams are you referring to?
@@tommythetreat000 Dreyer and Reinbold, Juncos, and the additional cars for the main teams
@@austinskirvin01 Even with those teams and extra cars for the main teams, I still cant see more than 36 realistically unless a few brand new teams join the series. I figure there will be 6 Andretti cars, 4 Ganassi, 4 Penske, 3 Foyt, 3 Rahal, 3 Carpenter, 3 AMSP, 3 Coyne, 2 Meyer Shank, 2 Dreyer and Reinbold, at least 1 Carlin maybe 2 and maybe 1 Juncos. That is 36 at most.
Any speculation on extra part time or Indy teams?
Oh boy, Santucci and Gro in the same team, that'll be interesting.
Well, if they play their hand right, they make some money out of a bad boy reputation.
I guess the only other name to keep an eye would be Sergio Perez but I think he will find an F1 ride
Sergio Perez and Mick Schumacher at Haas would be such a good pairing
@@natelecarde962 it would but rumor has it that Nikita Mazepin is in line for one of the seats
I think it's down to Red Bull deciding between Albon, Hulkenberg or Perez. If Perez doesn't get that seat I don't think he will stay in F1.
@@Zalliee he may not should he not find a seat unless maybe a team like Mercedes offers him a reserve driver role.
If Mick does being pick by Haas, then Callum Ilott may going to IndyCar. The otherwise would be the same (Ilott picked by Haas while the Schumacher jr racing with Herta jr) so i was fascinating with the Haas driver. The goddamn european news instead reporting that Ilott would be in Formula E next year, which was no brainer move if he does so consider it's champion (Da costa) are eager to move to IndyCar despite Formula E would have world championship status.
I'm calling it now, Bump Day will happen in 2021 (36-car entry list), Sergio Perez in the 20 on road/street courses, Conor Daly in the 48 on ovals, and TK in the 59 on ovals.
Even as a Ericsson fan, I dread the day when I see Ericsson, Sato and Grosjean 3 wide at an oval...
So you've chosen death.....
They could crash three wide on a drag strip.
One thing I had thought about, though highly unlikely, is Daly in the 48 for the ovals and TK doing a one off at the 500 for ECR.
Jimmie Johnson will take his true fans with him! The fact that he will bring the # 48 to his new seat in INDY made us all very happy ‼️
Has team Penske ever had a full season rookie driver? I’m trying to think of one before McLaughlin but I can’t recall one.
I’d say yes on bumping at the 500
For the 59 car on ovals, IF Conor gets a full season ride at ECR, then I’d say Askew gets the 59.
I dont know Indycar. How would you all rank teams from strongest to weakest? And what's the strongest car of each team?
Da Costa would be massive for the series given that he’s the reigning fe champion, but I think he’s under contract with techcheetah still. From what I gathered from the press releases at the time it was more of a pr test and something that da Costa wanted to try out. Would be good if it did happen though.
I like Grojean to Dayle Coyne as well.
Indycar’s biggest struggle is for the casual fan to put a car, a car number and a face together along with whom is driving for which team. I learned all the elders through the old video game. Why doesn’t Indycar capitalize on online racing leagues and driver involvement.
Great video, I've noticed in Indycar the number sticks with the car and not the driver. How do they determine the cars number? Is it down to the team choosing?
If Albon goes from RB, which isn't a given as the company is half owned by Thai's, then it opens the door likely for Hulkenberg, who is the choice of Verstappen. That closes the door for Perez as an active driver as there are no seats available in F1. He either takes a reserve / testing role or he heads to Indycar. I think he end up in Indycar with McLaren SP. I doubt Grosjean goes to Indycar, he likely goes to Peugeot in the WEC. Grosjean's funding is minimal even by Indycar standards. Drivers who should retire from Indycar as they've all gone well past their best before date - Castroneves, Daly and Kanaan.
This 100%. I think KMag would be a good fit in Indy unless he got confirmed somewhere else.
I can also see Grosjean in Formula E but I agree with everything else you said!
Andretti: #26 Hinchcliffe, #27 Rossi, #28 Hunter-Reay, #88 Herta, #98 Andretti, hopefully a part-time #29 for Kirkwood e.g.
Penske: #2 Newgarden, #12 Power, #17 McLaughlin, #22 Pagenaud
Ganassi: #8 Ericsson, #9 Dixon, #10 Palou, #48 Johnson/Kanaan
McLaren: #5 O'Ward, #7 Rosenqvist, #66 Magnussen
D. Coyne: #18 Ferucci, #19 Grosjean
E. Carpenter: #20 Carpenter/Daly, #21 van Kalmthout
Meyer/Shank: #06 Castroneves, #60 Harvey
RLL: #15 Rahal, #30 Sato, #45 Delétraz (with Citrone-Buhl)
Foyt: #4Fittipaldi, #14 Bourdais, #41 Askew
Carlin: #31 Nasr, #59 Sette Camara
Part-time entries: Dreyer/Reinbold, Juncos, Top Gun, Castroneves 2nd Meyer/Shank
29 Full-time entries, 4 Part-time
Even though I think he'll do another season of FIA F2 with a more competitive team next year, Felipe Drugovich is someone I could see joining Indy (maybe with Dale Coyne). If Grosjean does join Indy, I think it'll be for a short period of time since he's expressed interest in Peugeot's WEC hypercar project for 2022.
I hope that Carlin come back. Chilton had a spot on radio 2 here just before the first st Pete, where he said that he wasn’t interested in just being stuck at the back all year and he’d reconsider going forward if he was. The season wasn’t quite that bad, but he didn’t quite get a top 10 at any point, so there’s got to be at least some doubt.
Why do teams have more than 2 cars A? B, why the cars in the same teams dont match color or anything like it is in F1?
The factory perfectly predicted grosjean to Dale coyne
Great report!
IndyCar's 2021 is looking GOOD!
Don't be surprised to see Jenson Button or Sergio Perez in a McLaren at a race next season.
Bumping at the 500 seems pretty certain to me.
I can only agree with what others have commented - but either you are very confident about Perez being on the F1 grid next year, or your plain forgot about him.
I do think that, if he is available, he'd be a 'must have' pick for some teams out there.
Call me crazy.
I see:
2 DRR cars,
The 3rd Coyne car,
2 extra Andretti entries,
Daly in a Carlin & ECR partnership entry,
Plus all of your speculations and confirmations for the 500 next year. My car total(including out-of-the-blue entries that could happen form now until May) comes to 38 entries.
I’m not sure if you seen these rumors, but apparently Pietro Fittipaldi could be a possibility at Foyt. It’s been suggested that he’s considering an IndyCar return.
7:00 isn’t da costa confirmed at Techeetah for Formula E Season 7?
not yet. I follow FE also and the spot is still unconfirmed.
no confirmation from either Da Costa and Techeetah just yet
Felix da Costa has a 2 year contract with DS Techeetah, he does not need confirmation. Anyway, he already stated that both championships are compatible, in terms of shedule, though his commitment is to Formula E for 2021.
Whatever happened to Juncos??
What’s, can JJ not drive ovals in Indy cars? Doesn’t make sense to me...
Felipe Nasr is running in the IMSA with Pipo next year
in the 48 is jj and tony kaned
Man I wanted to see Jimmy Johnson race the Indy 500. Also did anyone realize that for RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING THE NUMBERS ARE LIKE PLUS 15 BECAUSE YOU HAVE 15 + 15 = 30 then 30+15=45
Give me Askew or give me death
As you wish sir
Should there be a second McLaren team with Peterson is the owner
My silly season prediction
James Hinchcliffe to the 26
Tony Kanaan to the 48 for oval races
Santino Ferrucci returns to the 18
Oliver Askew to the 55
Charlie Kimball returns to the 4
Dalton Kellett is part time in the 41
Juan Pablo Montoya to the 66
Max Chilton and Conor Daly return to the 59
Conor Daly returns to the 20 for road courses and drive a 3rd ECR for the Indy 500
Antonio Felix da Costa and Spencer Pigot split the 45 for a partial season.
Cant wait to see Jimmie run those open wheelers next year at Chip Ganassi Racing for Honda-Dallara Carvana Racing
I hope Kimball and Pigot get rides. They’re both underrated imo
Kimball suks all day and night. That moron can’t keep it on the track
Jimmie Johnson is not a full time Indycar driver for Chip Ganassi. He's part time road course only. Marco Andretti needs to quit. He's just taking up a good ride and he's not a good driver.
For years now my belief is that the only reason he is even driving now is so that Indy car has an Andretti in a car. He's terrible now. No excuse to perform that bad in that equipment
Marco is quite literally the Austin Dillon of IndyCar
With Peugeot coming back to Le Mans id be surprised if Grosjean doesn't end up in WEC
But Peugeot will come to WEC in 2022
Here’s a question what will mr backofthepack Zach veach end up or even at all
What about that new partnership with andretti sponsoring the team
Johnson isn't racing the ovals..how can you call him a fulltime driver?
Daly, I think, is chasing a fulltime seat with Andretti. I could see Nasr in the 20 car if Daly leaves.
I think JPM in the 66 or possibly a sixth or seventh Andretti seat at Indy.
Finally, there are four things we can count on every year: life, death, taxes, and Bobby Rahal saying they are really super close to running three cars.🤣
What is your outro music
Will be cool to see Jimmie in the Indy car series, but no ovals, he is really good at oval races obviously, so not sure why not a full time seat.
If we can get back to 36 that would be Incredible. But I’m definitely not holding my breath. Especially with juncos, dragon speed, Balardi, driven to save lives crew not coming back by the looks of things.
Why isn't indycar racing in Australia.
What about Citron Buhl and Dreyer Reinbold?
I forgot about them too...Sage Karam ? Are they going to run 2 cars?
Jimmy Johnson in indycar lets gooooo poggggg i love indycar racing
he should be on the Ovals.
David do you think Oliver ends up anywhere ?
Great video as usual.😃
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
I thought there was talk of Conor Daly getting a full third time car at ECR and someone else on ovals, maybe Askew?
Daly is waiting to hear from his sponsor the Air Force. It depends on how much they want to invest. I agree with David, worst case Daly will do the same thing as last year splitting his time with ECR and Carlin.
Can you do a NASCAR fans guide to Indy car and Sports cars fans guide to Indy car
isnt jimmie confirmed for the indy 500 too?
What about Askew?
So Jimmy is going to be full time now?
If I understood the video correctly Jimmie was going to drive the road courses and someone else would drive the 48 on the ovals and in the Indy 500.
Great content
Didn't JPM leave McLaren in the middle of an F1 season to go to Ganassi NASCAR?
Yes, but Ron Dennis ran the team back then and a falling out happened between those two prompting Montoya to leave mid-season.
I would be interested to see if Dale Coyne reaches back into super formula and tries to bring on someone like Sascha Fenestraz. He is currently contracted to Toyota in Super Formula so that could be a hiccup, but who knows. Another name that popped into my head is Logan Sargeant. I know he is an elite junior driver who is vying for a future in F1, but American drivers have historically not had sticking power over in Europe so who knows. Maybe Sargeant doesn't have the means to get a formula 2 seat and comes back stateside and jumps into an indycar.
Probably that seat will end up in two drivers, and maybe another more but the most logical candidates for that seat are Zach Veach or Oliver Askew, and who knows....... Insert name here.........
@@DrColoso True. That said, Askew is allegedly floating around the idea of hanging it up early according to some racing news sites.
@@GreenHornet553 Yes its true that are you saying, I read the same thing in Racer, if I'm not wrong Robin Miller say that quote, in my personal opinion, I hope not, he is really young with great potential to explode, I was thinking in case that he can't have a ride in IndyCar, IMSA is the right choice to continue, there is a few examples from drivers who was in indy lights or in Atlantic series that don't have a opportunity in IndyCar and went to IMSA, the great example, Simon Pagenaud. By the way great name you have, I like the movies specially the second part, the third is hilarious 😂👍🏻
The graphics look nice
About a month ago, I heard some random rumor that Kyle Busch wanted to run the Indy 500 with a team like ED carpenter racing. Is there any truth to this?
Manufacturer conflict. Toyota in NASCAR, Chevy in IndyCar. Besides I can’t imagine Ed putting up with a lightning rod personality like KyBusch.
@@michaeljezierski7158 Do to that manufacture thing, Kyle cannot race a Honda due to Honda and Toyota’s rivalry, so only a Chevy team works. But you are right about carpenter being an odd team, so maybe Carlin or something
I'm guessing that next year's indy 500 ends up with 34 or 35 entries
RIP Oliver Askew
Where does Oliver Askew end up?
I’m going 38 to show up in May
I feel like the reason Jimmie doesn't want to do the ovals, well three reasons, one. He feels that they're too fast, or.
Two (and this is my opinion) he'll absolutely dominate the shit out of the ovals to the point where it gets boring. The third might be that he's just done with oval racing.
I could see Askew landing at Carlin tbh, but only if Nasr or Daly doesn't return
Any speculation about Sergio Perez , he has plenty of backers , teams needing money could do worse than give him a trial
Sorry DL but Roger Penske needs to do something special to bring eyeballs to the series. Drivers nobody knows and F1 retreads aren't the answer. NASCAR on the other hand is going to really rock in 2021.
I don’t think that grosjean brought any funding to f1, which is probably the main reason behind him getting dropped. Maybe he can find a bit somewhere for Indy, would be good but I’m not holding my breath. I think he’s underrated in f1 but does crash too much. As does magnussen really, though he does at least bring a small amount of money and is a bit younger. But I’m not exactly thrilled at the prospect of them being dropped in favour of mazepin, who surely needs another year of f2.
We are at 52.8k subs. Let's get him to 100k Day 4
What is this Jimmy Johnson didn't do diddley this year what makes you think he is so wonderful it's just like what was her name ?.
Why isn't Jimmy Johnson running the ovals why is he only running the road courses can someone answer that please
Safety
Could hass racing form a IndyCar team
I would like to see Perez in the 66 McLaren
ECR Needs to expand to three cars just saying
So O'Ward is signed and definitely confirmed for McLaren in 2021. That means he's going to get fired a week before St. Pete.
Grosjean: I think Ericsson hit us
Whatever happened to Top Gun Racing?
$$$$$$$$
Does Mclaren build engines?I know they are using Chevy engines now. I was curious to know if they planned to use ones build by them at some point.
They don't for their Formula 1 cars. They use Renault this year, and are switching to Mercedes engines next year. In their road cars they partner with Ricardo for their engines.
@@ount252 That's weird for them to be in Indycar then. The chassis are all built by Dallara. So what does Mclaren bring to the table? I guess money and drivers. Thanks for the info
A name that nobody is thinking about to watch out for is Alex Albon
I think they will have at least 34 cars
I cant lestwn to the coyne one cause i know stuff thats no publicand therefore can't sat
wot, no Checo?
Sadly no, I think they will struggle to get 33