Indycar 2025.Round 3. Long Beach. Race Part 2
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00:00:00Start it on the heart, change to the heart
00:00:02They won't have to come in for some time
00:00:04Stingray Rob leads
00:00:05Yeah, Stingray Rob and Robert Schwartzman
00:00:13It's 16 laps since they last stopped
00:00:16They've not used the greens yet
00:00:18So the race now, Karl Kirkwood, Alex Polov, Felix Rosenquist
00:00:23You're effective first, second and third
00:00:26And what's interesting with the alternate and the primary strategy
00:00:30The two different strategies there
00:00:31They've kind of reached the status quo
00:00:33Because they've both dumped the greens
00:00:36They've both stopped twice
00:00:38And they've now got that run of whether or not they can do it on fuel to the end
00:00:45Because they won't be on the green tyre
00:00:47Any of those two strategies for that last stop
00:00:51So there won't be any query there
00:00:5241 laps completed of the 90
00:00:57And in terms of fuel save
00:00:59Kirkwood and Polov pitted six and seven laps ago respectively
00:01:03Felix Rosenquist, eight
00:01:05Christian Lungard there just behind Rosenquist
00:01:08Only stopped a lap ago
00:01:10So he's going to have more fuel in that car
00:01:13Which means obviously he's going to have less of a fuel save
00:01:16So keep that in mind as the race progresses
00:01:20And also in that sort of stratosphere
00:01:25Is the likes of Scott Dixon
00:01:28But he's a bit further back now
00:01:30Because behind Christian Lungard
00:01:32You've got Scotty Mack and Joseph Newgarden
00:01:34Then Colton Herter
00:01:35You know, Colton Herter down in ninth place now
00:01:39Still holed up behind those two Chevrolets
00:01:43I mean, the only sort of question mark then
00:01:47Is can, you know, Honda versus Chevrolet
00:01:51In terms of fuel save
00:01:52We know the Honda's more drivable around here
00:01:55Chevrolet have that peak
00:01:57In terms of performance
00:01:59Maybe more horsepower
00:02:00Will that mean that that Chevrolet is more thirsty?
00:02:04Will that benefit the likes of Colton Herter?
00:02:06We're on board with Stingray Robb
00:02:08He continues to lead here at Long Beach
00:02:12As filtering back now
00:02:14We've found Colton Herter
00:02:16Now Colton Herter was behind
00:02:19Joseph Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin
00:02:22Listen to that fuel save
00:02:24Big, big fuel save
00:02:25He's definitely trying to hit a number
00:02:27And will that be the benefit of him?
00:02:32Or is he just not with that mileage
00:02:35That the Chevrolet has in front of him
00:02:37These are all the question marks
00:02:38That we don't know yet
00:02:39That will start to play out
00:02:41Over the next 40-odd laps
00:02:45Around this Long Beach circuit
00:02:47This is starting to bubble up
00:02:49In terms of the strategy
00:02:52But one thing is for sure
00:02:54And Kyle Kirkwood
00:02:55In that Andretti Global car
00:02:57Is looking very, very good
00:02:59No mean feat
00:03:01Keeping Alex Pillow behind
00:03:03This Easter
00:03:07The UFL takes over
00:03:08Spring's biggest weekend
00:03:10With the Fox Football Extravaganza
00:03:12First Friday at 8 Eastern
00:03:14Memphis takes on Michigan
00:03:15Then Saturday at 7
00:03:17Birmingham battles Houston
00:03:19And next Sunday at 5
00:03:20It's San Antonio
00:03:21Versus DC
00:03:22It's all next weekend
00:03:24On Fox
00:03:25Now Stingray Robb
00:03:28Still leads
00:03:29The Grand Prix of Long Beach
00:03:30A nice little moment
00:03:31On board
00:03:32Courtesy of Goodheart
00:03:33As he says
00:03:34Thank you very much
00:03:35To his teammate
00:03:35Connor Daly
00:03:36Who graciously
00:03:37Allows him to
00:03:39Swing through
00:03:39And maintain that lead
00:03:40Without losing any time
00:03:42Robert Schwartzman
00:03:439.8 seconds behind him
00:03:45And guys
00:03:45These two drivers
00:03:46Started on the hard
00:03:48But while everybody else
00:03:48Who started on the hard
00:03:49Like Lundberg
00:03:50And like Dixon
00:03:51Changed onto the soft
00:03:52They decided
00:03:53To stay on that hard tyre
00:03:55That's why they're up the front
00:03:56And in the lead of this race
00:03:57And running competitive lap time
00:03:59Stingray
00:04:00A 1 minute 9.1
00:04:01Last time around
00:04:02It's good pace
00:04:03From them both
00:04:03It's going great
00:04:04I mean last lap
00:04:05For Kyle Kirkwood
00:04:06Was a 1.09.5
00:04:07So again
00:04:08Clean air is king
00:04:09It's going well
00:04:10But we're hearing now
00:04:11That maybe there's a problem
00:04:12With Alex Pillow
00:04:14Kev
00:04:14What do you know
00:04:14Well he's trying to
00:04:16Become the sixth
00:04:17To win the first three races
00:04:19In a season
00:04:20Other than his teammate
00:04:21Scott Dixon
00:04:21It had to happen
00:04:22Since 2006
00:04:23But he said
00:04:24Right now
00:04:24I can't turn
00:04:25I'm struggling
00:04:26Just a little bit
00:04:27So see what you guys
00:04:28Can see
00:04:29How is the car
00:04:29Handling for Pillow
00:04:30This has been a
00:04:32Common thread
00:04:33With most of the drivers
00:04:34I've talked to
00:04:35This weekend
00:04:35Is understeer
00:04:37Especially right here
00:04:38In the hairpin
00:04:39Getting the front to work
00:04:40We heard some radio
00:04:42Communication earlier
00:04:43About stiffening
00:04:44The rear bar
00:04:45Brian Barnhart
00:04:46Talking to Lungard
00:04:48About trying to
00:04:49Get the back of the car
00:04:50To stand up more
00:04:51And help it turn
00:04:52Help the front end
00:04:53Be a little bit sharper
00:04:54But it's not
00:04:55Just Alex Pillow
00:04:56We understand
00:04:57Colton heard it
00:04:57With some issues
00:04:58Let's listen
00:04:58So that's Colton
00:05:09Talking about
00:05:09A handling imbalance
00:05:11He said
00:05:11It's so loose
00:05:12In the right handers
00:05:13In the understeer
00:05:13In the left
00:05:14Or is it the other way around
00:05:15I forget already
00:05:15That's what he said
00:05:16But that's a tough situation
00:05:18So he was asking
00:05:19If one of the dampers
00:05:20Had failed
00:05:20That's something that can
00:05:21Sometimes happen
00:05:22In these bumpy street tracks
00:05:23Especially when you've got
00:05:24Big curb strikes
00:05:24Like right there
00:05:25In turn five
00:05:27But when you have
00:05:27An inconsistent balance
00:05:28Left to right
00:05:29That's one of the biggest
00:05:30Challenges for a driver
00:05:31Colton Hurta got into the wall
00:05:33With his race car
00:05:34Early on in the weekend
00:05:35So they were able
00:05:37To make some quick repairs
00:05:38And then he got into the back
00:05:39Of Jacob Abel
00:05:41This morning in the warm up
00:05:42So the Gainbridge Honda
00:05:43Has seen some wall banging
00:05:46So far this weekend
00:05:48Hopefully he's able
00:05:50To drag this thing
00:05:52To the finish
00:05:52But Colton Hurta
00:05:53Not the kind of day
00:05:54So far he was expecting
00:05:55After starting
00:05:56On the front row
00:05:56Yeah they started
00:05:57First, second, and fifth
00:05:59They run at the moment
00:06:00Third, ninth, and fourteenth
00:06:03The three Andretti global cars
00:06:05But it's Stingray Rob
00:06:06Who still leads
00:06:07From Robert Swartzman
00:06:08A word for Rob
00:06:09Who's moved to Hunkos
00:06:10This year
00:06:11Feels much more at home
00:06:12Really enjoying his time
00:06:13There
00:06:14They brought on
00:06:16Adam Carroll
00:06:17Former racer
00:06:18As we sit on board
00:06:19Courtesy of Goodheart
00:06:20Once again
00:06:21Adam Carroll
00:06:22Brilliant racing driver
00:06:23Won the A1GP title
00:06:25For Ireland
00:06:26Raced in Formula 3
00:06:27Nice move again
00:06:28From Stingray Rob
00:06:29As he now sides
00:06:30His way through
00:06:31The lapped cars
00:06:32And Adam's been brought
00:06:34On as a driver
00:06:35Coach
00:06:36For Stingray Rob
00:06:37Helping him
00:06:37To just put things
00:06:38Together
00:06:39This season
00:06:40Still so young
00:06:41In his career
00:06:42Conor Daly
00:06:43Of course
00:06:43His teammate
00:06:43Son of Formula 1
00:06:44And IndyCar
00:06:45Driver
00:06:45Derek Daly
00:06:46And there is
00:06:48Stingray Rob
00:06:48His first season
00:06:49With Hunkos
00:06:50Hollinger
00:06:51Named after
00:06:51To the Chevy Corvette
00:06:53Stingray
00:06:54There you go
00:06:56Not after the
00:06:58Gerry Anderson
00:06:59Series
00:06:59Of the same name
00:07:00Which I thought
00:07:02He should have
00:07:02Always liveried
00:07:03His cars like that
00:07:03Anyway
00:07:04Leaving the race
00:07:04Doing a fantastic job
00:07:06Right now
00:07:06Stingray Rob
00:07:07The fourth IndyCar race
00:07:09He has led
00:07:09In his career
00:07:10And doing so
00:07:11With some aplomb
00:07:12Still in the mid
00:07:13One minute nines
00:07:14Very tidy job
00:07:16Looking at control
00:07:17And I don't think
00:07:17Guys
00:07:18He needs to come in
00:07:18For at least
00:07:19Another seven
00:07:19Or eight laps
00:07:20That sun really
00:07:27Has come out
00:07:28It's
00:07:28It's
00:07:29Pouring and shining
00:07:30On this racetrack
00:07:31Now
00:07:31Just making that
00:07:32Perfect
00:07:32Southern California
00:07:34Afternoon
00:07:34For a motor race
00:07:35Through the streets
00:07:36Guy who's on a
00:07:38Really solid drive
00:07:40And potentially
00:07:40His best ever
00:07:41Career finish
00:07:42Kiffin Simpson
00:07:43Runs in tenth
00:07:44Right now
00:07:44But on the same
00:07:45Strategy as the
00:07:46Leaders
00:07:46His previous best
00:07:48Twelfth
00:07:49As Felix Rosenquist
00:07:51Been chatting with
00:07:51His team on pit lane
00:07:52Let's listen
00:07:53Alright Felix
00:07:54No more push to pass
00:07:55We'd like to go to
00:07:56Red three
00:07:56Red three
00:07:57Be smart with your tires
00:07:59And we need an average
00:08:00Of fuel 93
00:08:01So that's the team
00:08:03Telling Felix
00:08:04Hey
00:08:04Stay off the push
00:08:06To pass
00:08:06Because when you
00:08:07Use it
00:08:07We're burning
00:08:07Too much fuel
00:08:08So they're starting
00:08:09To calculate
00:08:12What it's going to
00:08:13Take to make it
00:08:14To the end
00:08:14On one more stop
00:08:15And that's interesting
00:08:19He's saying
00:08:19No more push to pass
00:08:21Felix right now
00:08:21Sitting at 63 seconds
00:08:23Remaining
00:08:23To keep that
00:08:24Into perspective
00:08:25The Kyle Kirkwood car
00:08:27125 seconds
00:08:29Still remaining
00:08:30So it's definitely
00:08:33Been a trigger
00:08:33Happy afternoon
00:08:34So far for Rosie
00:08:35As he's been
00:08:35Trying to maintain
00:08:36That position
00:08:37Keep that good streak
00:08:37Here at Long Beach
00:08:39Alive
00:08:40But let's take a look
00:08:41Back further in the grid
00:08:42Newgarden
00:08:42First guy to get off
00:08:43Those softs
00:08:44And how's progress
00:08:46Going for the number
00:08:46Two
00:08:47The team
00:08:48Are very happy
00:08:48Kind of carrying
00:08:49On the conversation
00:08:50About fuel
00:08:51They were the first
00:08:52People to blink
00:08:53They pit very early
00:08:54They do have to save
00:08:56A little bit
00:08:57Tim told me
00:08:58That they're happy
00:08:58With the car
00:08:59They're happy
00:08:59With what they've
00:09:00Got to do
00:09:00And also
00:09:01Just fun fact
00:09:02Joseph's on a run
00:09:03Of nine straight
00:09:04Top tens
00:09:05At this track
00:09:06So pretty nice
00:09:07Recovery
00:09:08From him and his team
00:09:08So far today
00:09:09Don't you jinx him
00:09:12Jack Harvey
00:09:12Don't you jinx him
00:09:14Joseph Newgarden
00:09:15Who won this race
00:09:16Back in 2022
00:09:18There he is
00:09:20In the
00:09:21Aztimo Chevy
00:09:22Colton Herder
00:09:24Behind him
00:09:24Laying down
00:09:25The laps
00:09:26Here on the streets
00:09:27Of Long Beach
00:09:27Stingray
00:09:27Robb still leaves
00:09:28Robert Schwartzman
00:09:29Yeah when we talk
00:09:34About team Penske
00:09:36And Joseph Newgarden
00:09:37Having a solid afternoon
00:09:38I mentioned it
00:09:39In the last break
00:09:40But just looking down
00:09:41The timings
00:09:41Marcus Ericsson
00:09:42Pato Award
00:09:43Alexander Rossi
00:09:44All drivers
00:09:45That we've seen
00:09:46Challenging much further
00:09:48Up today
00:09:49As Joe New
00:09:51Having a little
00:09:52Look there
00:09:53Down into
00:09:55That was Will Power
00:09:56Sorry
00:09:56Having a
00:09:57A little look
00:09:58A little look at
00:09:58Kiffin Simpson
00:09:59Into turn one
00:10:00Scott Dixon
00:10:00Now trying to have
00:10:01A look through
00:10:02As well
00:10:03Kiffin Simpson
00:10:04Further up on good merit
00:10:07But dropping back
00:10:08But dropping back
00:10:08Now but the likes of
00:10:10Pato Award
00:10:41Didn't work for them
00:10:41Didn't work for them
00:10:42And we've seen the
00:10:44And we've seen the overcut
00:10:44And we've seen the overcut work
00:10:45And we've seen the overcut work on the road
00:10:47And we've seen the overcut work on the road
00:10:47And we've seen the overcut work on the road
00:10:49And we've seen the overcut work on the road
00:10:52definitely want to get to lap 60 to make it to the end probably into the early 60s before we
00:11:01see the flurry of pit stops it'll be the final stop of this three-stop race so it has been a
00:11:08three-stop race in the end two more stops after the very early stoppers on the greens and it is
00:11:17who continues to look strong from Alex Fuller and Felix Rosenquist, Stingray Rob, Robert Schwarzman
00:11:25they last stopped 25 laps ago so they will be in very very soon now Will Power we've seen him
00:11:33making hay whilst the sun shines getting away past Kiffin Simpson he's now trying to get past and
00:11:41this is lapped traffic Jacob Abel in the Dale Coyne car ahead of him the next position up the road
00:11:49for Will Power will be Colton Herter you can see Colton Herter's machine there he goes Colton Herter
00:11:57complaining about a balance on his car that he's just not happy with Jacob Abel getting out of the
00:12:03way on shoreline drive is he don't forget Will Power's trying to hit a number Kiffin Simpson wants
00:12:08the following through and yes they make it through up into turn one Scott Dixon now staring at the real
00:12:15wing of that Dale Coyne machine and all the while he has got Santino Ferrucci behind him
00:12:26welcome back to the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where the drivers of the NTT IndyCar series are
00:12:31sharpening their elbows and going out to fight strategies converging drivers getting lapped it is
00:12:38non-stop action corner by corner lap by lap but Scott Dixon uh tries to fend off Santino Ferrucci
00:12:45behind him his teammate uh Kiffin Simpson having a great day at the races as Dixon now tries to make
00:12:52the move on the 51 car they both get through that's nice to put him a lap down now Stingray Robdo from the
00:12:58the lead of the race comes into the pit lane meaning that rookie Robert Schwartzman is our new
00:13:03race leader in the prema and we kind of were chatting in the break about what you would do if
00:13:09you were Schwartzman or robbed a pit and go hearts again they're the only two drivers that haven't
00:13:14satisfied the tire rule and if it's me i want to put hearts on again save the sauce for the end in case
00:13:19there's a yellow and there's a restart you have that extra grip yeah could be helpful but if that yellow
00:13:23comes you're gonna have to pit to put the softs on everybody else will have made their stop you will
00:13:28cycle to the back but for Schwartzman why not risk it give him a chance to lead some laps
00:13:32rough start to the season for the driver out of Tel Aviv but problem free so far this weekend
00:13:38they've done a really good job tell you what who's had a really good day Santino Ferrucci started dead
00:13:44last stick the words out of my mouth he is up 14 spots on the lead strategy right now doing one
00:13:50heck of a job for A.J. Foyt and there comes Schwartzman now lap 52 he still will have to stop
00:13:56another time no matter what fuel or tires Hunkas have sent Rob back out on the soft tire be interested
00:14:03to see what Prema do with Schwartzman of course the team in only their third NTT IndyCar series race
00:14:09as we ride on board with the man who started on pole with the man who is now your race leader once again
00:14:15Carl Kirkwood courtesy of prefab so it's Kirkwood's ahead of pillow and Rosenquist it's back to as you
00:14:23were but these strategies are ebbing and flowing and still no clear winner
00:14:35right we've got rid of two outliers out front stingray Rob and Robert Schwartzman in the end stingray
00:14:43Rob actually doing a good job ran a lot of his laps at the same speed as kirkwood and pillow i know
00:14:49kirkwood and pillow are on a big fuel save and stingrays not because they're gonna have to stop again
00:14:55they just can't make it on one more stop to the end but still nevertheless strong performance from him
00:15:01so the big question mark is one more set of pit stops what will work the undercut all the overcuts and
00:15:09who has got some fuel in their car because of course the pit stop length will be interesting
00:15:18so whoever's done a good job with the fuel save probably will have used all the fuel
00:15:22but if you can go longer and have a shorter pit stop because you don't have to put as much fuel in the car
00:15:29that is also something that's going to play into your hands on board with car purple i love this in
00:15:37car by fox drivers eye view here you can really see the nature of how bumpy this circuit is and how
00:15:46physical it is and how little you can see as well how far through the corners you've got to sit and the
00:15:52drivers do change how high they sit in the car for these street tracks i saw robert schwartzman sitting
00:15:58so high in his premier car so he could just see more and that changes a bit like changing your golf grip
00:16:06for those watching the golf at the moment is it on um it feels different when you change where you sit in
00:16:13the car but it can be a real benefit because you're less likely to make a mistake and tag a wall as we ride
00:16:19on board with colton hurter and i feel it's a bit of a scrappy weekend for colton hurter
00:16:26didn't quite get the pole done tagged the wall in the group stages broke the toe link it was carl
00:16:32kirkwood who had a better strategy in the fast six got that extra prep lap colton hurter couldn't get it
00:16:40done he tagged the wall earlier on in the weekend as well as hitting jacob abel in warm-up earlier on and
00:16:47you know that may be one of the reasons why he's struggling with the balance of that car he's been
00:16:53in the walls it's been a little bit scrappy and carl kirkwood is the andretti driver who's flying
00:16:59the flag at the moment as colton hurter continues to wrestle that machine around the streets of long
00:17:07beach he's in seventh place at the moment and he's got the two penskis and scott mclaughlin and joseph
00:17:14newgarden ahead of him with christian lungard in fourth chasing down phedix rosenquist we're about
00:17:20five six laps from the pit stops
00:17:26welcome back to the ntt indy car series on fox live from long beach we ride on board with kyle kirkwood the
00:17:33pole sitter who leads 26 year old from jupiter florida doing a stunning job just as he did the
00:17:39last time he took pole here where he took it to the victory he's having a tough time of it though today
00:17:44he has a three-time champion in his mirrors and is trying to make a very different strategy work out
00:17:52there on track started on the soft got rid of them
00:18:01running the rest of the race on the hard tire there is below you can see that gap it's ebbing and
00:18:06flowing between about one and a half and two seconds below who'd had a little bit of difficulty turning
00:18:11the car a few laps ago that appears to have settled itself down but uh as we move into the 57th lap
00:18:18here we welcome uh fans who are joining us after a very emotional day in bristol kyle larson dominant
00:18:27uh on a day of course where we recognized on on this broadcast the loss of john edwards who was so
00:18:33important to kyle larson and his team guys a recap of this race it was an old andretti front row and a
00:18:41great race that followed from there well kyle kirkwood just simply took ownership of this race at the
00:18:45beginning joseph newgarden pitting super early to get rid of those soft tires colton hurt it would
00:18:50follow suit just a few laps later the gainbridge team getting it done on pit lane so does scott dixon
00:18:57a little different strategy there he went longer on the hard tires little issue on his right rear
00:19:02those are the converging strategies as we get down the stretch and here it is you're going to see
00:19:05christian lingard emerging from the pit lane behind kirkwood and polo he was the leader on that
00:19:11alternate strategy he's done a great job right now running in fourth having started all the way back
00:19:16in 12. we sit on board with kyle kirkwood driver's eye camera
00:19:25hear that little lift little fuel save on the back straightaway we're at lap 57 that's 33 laps to the
00:19:32finish we expect the final stint if you're really pushing you might want to leave yourself 28 laps to
00:19:39get it done so maybe four or five more laps before these leaders start to pit that's where the
00:19:44gamesmanship comes in who tries to do it by undercutting or overcutting saving gas to the end
00:19:49or pushing hard all the way that's what determines when you come this is perfect keep doing what you're
00:19:54doing and here's the thing guys we thought we were going to have two strategies today start on the soft
00:19:59get rid of them run the rest of the race on hard or start on the heart and then figure out when you run
00:20:04the soft maybe as as early as possible two drivers have done something very different they started on
00:20:09the hard move to hard and have moved on to soft for now one of those drivers is stingray rob who sits
00:20:15ninth if you can make these softs last to when everybody has to pin for their last stop takes his
00:20:20stop around that time that could be a top 10 for hung cost which would be a massive result for that team
00:20:25it would be huge and a career best ties the career best finish for stingray rob of ninth and for kiffin
00:20:31simpson their intent that would be a career best finish so some good days on order as alex polo
00:20:38starts to reel in kyle kirkwood ever so slightly let's hear some radio with the run fast last again
00:20:44right now that was quick radio so polo starting to get the hammer down we know and it was kyle kirkwood
00:20:55who told us earlier this season that the laps he spent behind alex polo in st pete the season opener
00:21:01opened his mind to how alex polo runs these races how in the zone he gets how completely to a different
00:21:09galaxy he's able to push his car in those laps leading up to a pit stop is he perhaps taking a
00:21:16leaf out of his book having learned from the master just a few races ago have a look on the left hand side
00:21:21of the pylon or so right hand side of the pylon right there push the last seconds remaining
00:21:25impressive that kyle kirkwood huge has almost 30 seconds more we always talk about alex polo's
00:21:32discipline his methodical approach but for young kyle kirkwood to out discipline the surgeon in the
00:21:40closing laps of long beach very impressive that's going to be important as we get to the final stages
00:21:46i tell you what i look at robert schwartzman who's rookie making his debut in the championship this
00:21:50year 179 seconds of push to pass left to go he's come over from european racing this year i wonder
00:21:58if anyone's told him that he has a push to pass because he doesn't appear to use it in any of the
00:22:03races you'd see there that graphic the battle for the lead it's been just ebbing and flowing this man
00:22:09kyle kirkwood in the 27 is controlling the pace right now jack what are they saying on the stand down
00:22:14there literally they just want to keep everything as is they have so zoned in not a lot of communication
00:22:20actually i've been listening the scanning the whole time and they're really not talking about the lock
00:22:24the overcoat is so powerful here i think their strategy they're just going to go one lap after
00:22:28alex polo easier said than done you have no idea how much alex polo is saving fuel behind you there i
00:22:35mean that could be part of the reason that gap isn't changing as we see joseph newt garden coming in for
00:22:40his final stop a little bit of that alternate strategy first guy in the pits first guy to do
00:22:45his last stop as well might have to save a bit of fuel too 30 laps to go to the close that's not
00:22:50going to be an easy number but what this does is it puts joseph newgarden in the position to danger
00:22:55zone the rest of the field by that i mean if a caution came out because of a crash all of a sudden
00:23:00joseph newgarden would be in the sweet spot everybody else would pit under caution as newgarden is back
00:23:06out hoping to get ahead of this prema car that's coming don't know if it's going to stay that way
00:23:11he's got position high percentage move there from newgarden to back out with schwartz excuse me
00:23:17callum eilat in the prema car coming through
00:23:23so something interesting here on the pit stop look at joseph newgarden waving frantically there's an issue
00:23:28seat belt perhaps is it possible that newgarden had a seat belt coming loose like his teammate will
00:23:37power did at the end of last season in nashville i can't see that based on how they were uh how they
00:23:42were reaching in there but kev seven's in kristen moongard making his final stop by the way the last
00:23:48to win a race for this team other than potter award is you james hinchcliffe
00:23:53that is true that is true some years ago kev but we did it here once back in 2017
00:24:02and i really like the strategy these guys did christian was quick all weekend long
00:24:06you know i i've been i've been really harping on how impressed i've been with his transition to
00:24:11mclaren this is a car that has been a struggle for other guys to drive other than pato award this
00:24:17team's been built around him the setup's been built around him as we see more trouble for joseph
00:24:22newgarden you might be right t bell that might be a a seat belt issue it's it's easy to do here
00:24:27because of the hairpin you do such a big crossover with your hands and arms sometimes you can just
00:24:32catch the release this is bizarre i i mean we don't hear about seat belts coming loose but for the same
00:24:38team to have that issue after will power had it i am just really shocked as felix rosenquist makes his
00:24:45final stop and this is key for the last step on that podium because we saw lungard come in he was trying
00:24:51to get that stop get out on track and hopefully make the time up but as we've seen today the
00:24:55overcut traditionally is the one that works where does rosie come out in relation to lungard we're
00:25:02moments away from finding out lungard's tires will be up to temperature rosenquist will have to push on
00:25:07regardless
00:25:08and so far there goes rosie the seven is behind him so lungard's still back there by a good chunk
00:25:16you see it up there on the map and he's now got two cars in between them so just advantage to
00:25:21rosenquist so easy for new garden to lose a lap now and basically be totally taken out of it
00:25:28was doing such a great job it advanced so many positions the gambles appear to be working he was
00:25:33doing everything right behind the wheel frustrating way and ultimately the man who determined pretty
00:25:40much every strategy we've seen today by taking that decision to pit as early as humanly possible
00:25:45as we ride on board thanks to siriusxm on the number 60 with felix rosenquist having a great start
00:25:51to the season uh is rosenquist sits fifth in the championship as things stand with maya shank
00:25:57just wanting to convert get themselves up into those top three positions they've had the pace
00:26:02all the way through i'm hearing it was a seat belt issue it certainly looked that way from the on
00:26:06board for new garden i've had that happen guys it's a terrible feeling inside a race car you've got a
00:26:10six point safety harness in an indy car you have that thing strapped down as tight as you can and when
00:26:15one pops it is so so uncomfortable and incredibly dangerous six points one lock right that's the issue
00:26:22is that lock releases and you can't get it yourself there's no way to get that back on
00:26:28especially a guy new garden size with his elbows hitting the side of the tub i'm sure he tried but
00:26:33it was probably pointless and that's one of those tough calls for a driver i mean you never want to pit
00:26:40like that if you don't have to but safety has to come first you have to be able to make that call
00:26:45yourself not if you're paul tracy i think he famously for team penske had an undone seat belt
00:26:50and did about 25 laps i think it was at laguna seca to hang on and win but he's a different breed will
00:26:56pillow is in final stop for alex blow up near the end of pit lane looking for a flawless stop these are
00:27:03the hard fire stones once again one more lap we think for kyle kirkwood pillow is away and pillow
00:27:10pushing for a third win on the bounce to take three wins in a row to open the season this is where he will
00:27:18push and he pushed on his in lap he got that gap down to under half a second to kyle kirkwood the
00:27:23race leader now has to put it all on the line and push with everything he's got as pillow has to do the
00:27:30same and importantly for pillow he has no traffic to deal with but not the case for kyle kirkwood
00:27:35he has now caught the back of the pack and he is losing precious time right now he's got to come to the box
00:27:42ought to come in that was devastating result he now he really has to hope that the team can get
00:27:47the job done that maybe pillow has a bit of a bobble but that's not exactly what we know alex pillow to
00:27:53do is jack he comes to you now yeah he's literally just about to hit his marks the most important two
00:27:58laps of the entire weekend now for kyle kirkwood and the andretti team are literally happening that in
00:28:03lap this outlap slide hiccup there i would say pretty smooth he's gonna hustle as hard as he can
00:28:08down to turn one and hopefully get ahead of the pillow slight delay getting away for kyle kirkwood
00:28:13the gap was half a second that kirkwood led pillow when pillow came into the pits keep your eyes on
00:28:20your race leader exiting pete ling keep your eye on that number 10 on the track map and you'll see the
00:28:25yellow and red dhl car envision any moment running down into turn one who will have the lead of this race
00:28:32kirkwood exits there's pillow but we've seen how long it takes these hard tires to come up to
00:28:37temperature below now through turn one he's got the bit between his feet jack talked about the
00:28:42overcut is usually the play here because of this because it's so narrow even if pillow gets to kirkwood
00:28:47right here there's really nowhere to get by kirkwood has to make sure he doesn't make a mistake
00:28:52right here exiting turn five it looked good it's the highest pressure situation for a driver you're
00:28:58leading the race you've got almost no grip on those cold tires but you have to push
00:29:02because there's a three-time champion breathing down your neck kirkwood being flauntless so far
00:29:08can he hold it down into turn nine brilliant job through five corners with kyle kirkwood not making
00:29:14a single mistake his mirrors full of yellow and red into the breaking zone at night he's done a wonderful
00:29:19job to keep him behind at the moment because that is not an easy thing to do we've seen how fast and
00:29:25pacey and racy alex pillow can be in these kind of scenarios what kind of an exit has he got out of
00:29:31down shoreline drive it's kirkwood and pillow for the lead of the accurate grand prix of long beach
00:29:37both drivers on a hundred percent button and look at the launch that kirkwood got that's a nice safe
00:29:43buffer heading into turn one but look at the 40 second push to pass advantage that's what i talked about
00:29:48earlier kyle kirkwood sitting pretty with horsepower to burn and maintain the lead he's just driving
00:29:55absolutely to perfection here great great execution hitting his marks not getting flustered in a high
00:30:02pressure situation very alex pillow like performance it is he's out pillowing pillow right now
00:30:09and you'll love to see it how pillow you how dare you how dare you suggest anybody can match the
00:30:15master uh kyle kirkwood absolutely do it i'm sorry it's blasphemous of me to say that i would never
00:30:20never do it again the chat is about below and kirkwood it's pillow's teammate kiffin simpson
00:30:26who leads the race right now in the number eight journey rewards honda great run from the guy from the
00:30:32in the cayman islands
00:30:39such a bizarre incident for joseph newgarden colton herter is the game there he's moved up behind
00:30:46scott mclaughlin as we watch the battle for the race lead and you can call kyle kirkwood the sponge
00:30:52there because he just soaked up so much pressure from alex pillow and we were all on the edge of our seats
00:31:01there if anyone can below camp but kyle kirkwood drove uh a sensational outlap there very very easy
00:31:11to make a mistake but he is in the groove and there's nothing alex pillow can do at the moment
00:31:19because that andretti car of kyle kirkwood in the mood that he's in now is looking very very good but
00:31:26without putting the commentator's curse on him there's 23 laps to go but you gotta feel it was all
00:31:34in that final stop can pillow find something up his sleeve to raid back kyle kirkwood and that andretti
00:31:45car there's not going to be too much in the way of fuel saving in this last stint they've done the
00:31:51majority of that in that middle stint so now it's kirkwood with pillow six seconds back felix rosenquist
00:32:00he's got a sort of six second buffer on lungard what a fantastic job lungard's done started 12
00:32:08after the disappointment of his shot yesterday in that fast six session and well christian lungard in that
00:32:17fast 12 session sorry that stopped him going through to the fast six and that now uh is a distant memory
00:32:26as he's looking very very good leading that arrow mclaren team as he has really since he's come in he's
00:32:34looked very very good and it's pato award that's looked a little bit out of source a little bit on
00:32:41the back foot a little bit like he's feeding the pressure whilst christian lungard is just looking
00:32:46very very comfortable very very calm and he's just learning all the while making that car suit his
00:32:55driving style he said at the opening round at st pete they went there with the base setup the pato award
00:33:01is built around him over the last few seasons but thermally took a step in his direction they went with
00:33:08with a base setup that suited him they've done the same thing here at long beach and christian
00:33:14lungard looking very very good he's got scott mclaughlin there about five seconds behind him and then
00:33:21behind scotty mack is colton hurt a colton hurt a still hold up behind those teeth well that team
00:33:29petsky rear wing as we look now 21 laps to go here at long beach
00:33:42welcome back to long beach let's take a look at the moment of the race sponsored by pens oil
00:33:48and it was the moment that kirkwood knew he had to defend with everything he's got hello coming fast on
00:33:58on the the faster tire and kirkwood having to do absolutely everything to hold him behind in a
00:34:04beautiful perfect outlet yeah he was getting out ahead but even more impressive i think was mistake
00:34:10free on those cold tires with full fuel in the first five corners at long beach as alex pillow now
00:34:18seeing a pretty big gap start to grow almost two seconds to kirkwood up ahead
00:34:23and kyle is just so in control of this race he's done it before he knows what it takes to get it
00:34:31done here and he is just in a mindset now in that zone just all about hitting your marks every break
00:34:38zone every turn in point every throttle application just needs to be rhythmic just needs to be controlled
00:34:46keep up the repetition because it is going his way just driving so smoothly and you know
00:34:50we would have speculated that there'd be more anxiety with kyle kirkwood a couple years ago but
00:34:56having one at nashville one on the streets here at long beach in a very similar like performance on
00:35:02both of those days starting up front pristine with the execution no mistakes this guy has won at every
00:35:10single level all through the junior formulas race winner championship championship championship to earn
00:35:16an opportunity in indycar and it hasn't slowed down at the top level it's what impresses me the most
00:35:23about him he hasn't had the big sponsors he hasn't had the opportunities handed to him on a platter as
00:35:29you can see the fox driver's eye view that we have courtesy of prefab he's had to earn it he's had to win
00:35:36a championship every year in order to get the winner's money the winner's purse to afford to move up to
00:35:43the next level he's just so impressive this is a guy that likes spending his overflow you're pulling him
00:35:51about two tenths the lap right now oh that's music to the ears of kyle kirkwood from brian hurda you're
00:35:57pulling him two tenths a lap 19 to go just cruise this thing home you know this is a guy that as you
00:36:03know t bell just likes to spend his tuesdays and thursdays chilling on the water down in florida
00:36:08on his boat fishing surfing he's as calm as can be outside the race car but when he needs to that
00:36:14killer instinct comes out he's a water man so long beach oceanside nashville riverside
00:36:21this as long as he's near water kyle kirkwood is untouchable seemingly yeah he must hate indianapolis
00:36:26there's a there's a lake there's a river uh nicknamed woody because he looks a little bit
00:36:33like the character from toy story he is riding like the wind bullseye 18 to go in long beach that's the
00:36:41first time i've heard that one i won't lie but so troubles with joseph newgarden with the seat belt
00:36:48and troubles continue way wide in turn five just tickles the tire barrier and keeps it out of the
00:36:58wall knocks the cap off that modello he's had such a day he's trying to get to the get to the bruise a
00:37:05little early yeah stick a lime in it kirkwood doing everything right pulling out over a two second
00:37:15advantage from the man who has won every race so far this season so far so good it's kirkwood's day
00:37:22here in long beach
00:37:27one is in the lights championship in 21 he came into indycar in 22 with foite then came to andretti
00:37:37with great expectation he delivered two wins in his opening season but it went away from him
00:37:45a bit in 24 here we are three races into 2025 and already kirkwood looking very solid here at long
00:37:56beach still 17 to go though but both himself and colton herter are talking about the culture in that
00:38:06andretti global team now there's no egos there's no inter team battling they're working together they're
00:38:14driving each other forward there's a harmony there's a rhythm there's a confidence about what
00:38:20it is that they're doing there's been one or two mistakes that we've seen from team and driver already
00:38:27in the first two races you can't afford to make mistakes as the year goes on especially if you're
00:38:35going to beat alex pelo i've talked about colton herter in the wars a bit of a scrappy weekend so far
00:38:42but for carl kirkwood he has delivered every single time he's got in the car he's been super clean
00:38:49he's been super calm he did the lap when he needed to and so far in this race here he has not put a
00:38:56foot wrong and even when alex pelo was crawling all over the back of him on cold tires he didn't look
00:39:03like he was flustered there he knew exactly where to position his car he is in the bubble
00:39:10and it is all going his way as i say that he's about to catch lapped traffic and that is probably not
00:39:19what he wanted to see
00:39:24excuse me carl kirkwood coming up behind it looks like one of the prema cars and it looks like that
00:39:33could be one of the coin cars jacob abel again i'm not entirely sure who that is in front but either way
00:39:41we have caught the back of the snake in terms of the lap cars alex pelo will be looking with intent now
00:39:50looking at their overtake pelo has 32 seconds left 88 or 66 seconds sorry for carl kirkwood he is going
00:40:00to make his way past jacob abel so he's passed one of those lapsed cars and alex pelo's turn next
00:40:16welcome back to long beach coming up on fox nascar from talladega sunday april 27th 2pm eastern on fox nhra
00:40:24from charlotte uh that's sunday april 27th 7 pm eastern on fs1 and indycar from barbell motorsports
00:40:32park sunday may 4th 1 30 eastern on fox we ride on board with graham rahal and uh courtesy of fleet
00:40:39cost and care it's been a tricky day graham looking racy in the early laps but so far is his teammate
00:40:45louis foster up in 16th who's the best rll of the day it's been a pretty anonymous race for the team
00:40:51saturday yeah it's a bit of a struggle i mean we talk a lot about graham's ability on a sunday to
00:40:56kind of pull a result out of nowhere but i mean if the car is just not behaving not responding the
00:41:02way you want it to there's only so many strategy options you can pull off on something like this
00:41:07only 36 years old but man he's a veteran in the series 294 career starts for him as we see pelo now
00:41:14clearing the lap car of jacob abel in pursuit of kirkwood but that gap is growing
00:41:18let's listen to a little radio from the race leader kyle kirkwood uh we can do a little bit of
00:41:26overtake efficient overtake for lap time and then maybe just save save the tires a little bit i'm
00:41:32just gonna save the overtake kirkwood hey son spend your allowance no i'm saving dad i'm saving i'm going
00:41:42straight into those bonds you know i'm just gonna play uh play slow and boring it's usually the opposite
00:41:48right strategist saying lay off the button yeah in this case kirkwood quite happy to keep that in
00:41:53his pocket which i think is smart he knows that the only thing that stands between him and victory
00:41:58lane right now at long beach is lap traffic so wait until you absolutely need it you don't want
00:42:03to be in a position where you allow alex pillow to close up on you and you're trapped behind the lap
00:42:08card coming up to the back of callum eyelott uh couple of guys i want to shout out right now
00:42:14this guy kiffin simpson currently sitting in p10 ahead of him stingray rob in a p9 this would be
00:42:21a career best result for both these two drivers today and what about santino ferrucci just behind
00:42:27them in 11th started plum last and you you said earlier today townsend he was your guy to watch
00:42:33yeah right they uh they asked us who to watch you guys looked at me funny because ferrucci coming from
00:42:3727th but he's a racer he's proven that for the last several seasons and if you look at the last
00:42:44three laps for that battle for 10th place he's quick kevin simpson doing a great job like you
00:42:50say that stingray rob that's going to match his best he's done it on an oval before
00:42:54at gateway plus 16 on the day though for santino ferrucci on board now dex imaging chevy of
00:43:0212. scott mclaughlin looking back now at colton hurda rather as you guys you can see down four
00:43:08places well colton hurda has a broken car he's certainly figured out how to steer it around the
00:43:14track he complained earlier of inconsistent handling between left-handers and right-handers
00:43:19but hurda has settled in nicely he sits between mclaughlin and his teammate verizon car willpower
00:43:26and scott dixon hanging in there running in eighth and you know what every single driver on
00:43:33their up or down positions on where they started the only one that hasn't changed for is kyle kirkwood
00:43:38and that's not something we've been able to say this season we haven't had a win from pole all the
00:43:42way through this year shows the job that kyle kirkwood has done thus far today in particular when you
00:43:47think about the man that he's had to keep behind him for the majority of this race alex polo now over two
00:43:54and a half seconds behind the pole center and we talked earlier about kyle kirkwood driving like
00:44:01polo in terms of championship execution and if kirkwood can keep this up he'll be second in
00:44:07championship points coming out of long beach pretty impressive stuff polo probably thinking this could
00:44:12be my new foe down the stretch 12 to go with the accurate grand prix of long beach we will be back for
00:44:20long beach the good news is alex polo is not winning that's for the championship the bad news is
00:44:33he's still in second place where you finish when you're not winning is what wins you championships
00:44:40and alex polo he's just so difficult to take points away from his closest rival heading into
00:44:47this weekend pato award well statistically this is his worst track on the calendar and that continues
00:44:55to play out he just cannot get the rubber degree you see what i did there golf analogy and now scott
00:45:03dixon as well 30 points obviously heading in not quite gone his way but for alex polo he will take
00:45:12lots of points away from them obviously for kyle kirkwood he's going to benefit from pato and scott not
00:45:19having the best of days in the office but for the championship it's a strong day for alex polo down in
00:45:27southern california that said could this spell a bit of a revival for andretti global in terms of
00:45:36their pace we know they're good on the ovals with the hybrid unit we saw how strong they were at the
00:45:42end of last year on the ovals that's been their achilles heel over the last few years when the aero
00:45:48screen came in the andretti global car just didn't look the same on the ovals we know they're quick on
00:45:54street tracks can they eliminate the mistakes on the road courses they'll be right in it but how
00:46:01do the drivers and teams start pulling points back from alex polo is the million dollar question
00:46:08because if a bad day in the office for him in terms of not winning is second then that is pretty ominous we
00:46:16are witnessing something very special when we talk about alex polo and chip ganassi chip ganassi
00:46:24look very very strong in terms of their technical background in terms of their simulation that
00:46:30side of things they've really stepped things up and i was listening to marshall pruitt actually on
00:46:35the simulation side and he was saying that arrow mclaren have a lot of engineers back at base in
00:46:41woking in the uk that they sent all the data and information back to them when they wake up every
00:46:47morning in long beach california they have information and data packs and all kinds of
00:46:53different things sent back from the uk to the arrow mclaren squad for the air their engineers on the
00:47:00torch to look through hasn't helped them though this weekend that said christian lungard the shining
00:47:06light in papaya as kirkwood continues to lead
00:47:16under 10 laps left to go here at the grand prix of long beach welcome back uh to all of those of
00:47:23you who've been with us from the style and those of you who have joined from nascar karl kirkwood
00:47:28leads by almost four seconds from alex polo yes he's led from pole position but it hasn't been quite
00:47:35that easy he has come under massive pressure from alex polo we've had only one call believe it or not
00:47:41in the first three races which would be the fewest since 1970 let's not jinx it yet guys what is going on
00:47:48where did all this good behavior come from it's just elite racing drivers doing what they do
00:47:54you see that push to pass remaining for your leaders in the top five there
00:47:59and let's head down to pit lane to get a little bit of information on our leader jack yeah one of
00:48:05the things i just wanted to bring attention to there is so much talent on the timing stand at the
00:48:10number 27 for kyle kirkwood you hear a lot the voice of brian herter he's a strategist a fantastic
00:48:16racing driver they also have another fantastic racing driver and that's robert wickens he made
00:48:21his uh he got back to racing at the elite level in imsy yesterday essentially he's the driver coach
00:48:27that is not doing justice to his contribution and his impact to the entire team he's there to try and
00:48:34help the drivers just find those final half attempts those few hundreds which in indycar racing
00:48:39can be the difference between being on pole and being off he is having such an impact shout out to
00:48:45robbie hopefully they see this route only eight laps to go that's a great point jack and you also just
00:48:52look at the incredible balance and dominance of this race car and huge credit to jeremy millis and
00:49:00his engineering team on the 27 program they did it with alexander rossi for several years on this team
00:49:06that led to two dominant wins at long beach and this today is truly impressive alex pelot 3.9 back
00:49:16pushing on and kevin it's been a good drive from him today it has it won't be three in a row it appears
00:49:22but i think most would be interested in first first and second and alex blow like a lot of european drivers
00:49:28had his sights set on f1 he was in that ladder system but very early on he was targeting indycard
00:49:34in fact in one of the several situations where he had no budget he's never had budget he's always
00:49:40been hired going back to go-karts he reached out to ricardo rucos rucos hallimer racing who owned an
00:49:46indy lights now in the next team and asked can i drive for you i don't have anything other than my helmet
00:49:52he got a nice polite response from ricardo and said
00:49:57said nothing said nothing said nothing this is a short conversation it's like it's like the guy who
00:50:03failed to sign the beatles but alex took that rejection and kept pushing and here he is now
00:50:12kirkwood doing the job seven to go there is alex below what a brilliant start to the season though
00:50:17alex below has had those two race wins in st pete and thermal both of them not from the front row of
00:50:23the grid but having to fight his way through but today has been bested at every turn by kyle kirkwood
00:50:30going hurt it now running around a little bit further down than he would have liked to have seen
00:50:36seventh right now after starting on the front row dixon on that alternate strategy doing a great job
00:50:40behind him to keep up in eighth place up from 14th for scotty d and this might become a little bit
00:50:48of an issue down here in turn one it looks like scott was on the push to pass not quite close enough
00:50:52to make it happen kornherger and scott dixon both winners here in the past not going to be there day
00:50:59today dixon and lungard of course both of them on a very different strategy to everybody else lungard
00:51:05running fourth dixon running eight they started on the hard run long until they came into the pits for
00:51:10their first stop not just for fresh tires of course but for shell 100 renewable fuel
00:51:16and the battle remains for this final spot on the podium we ride on board on the sirius xm
00:51:23car of rosenquist looking back at lungard and lungard is coming for him the gap has been cut
00:51:30right down it's under half a second between the mclaren driver and the meyer shank driver ahead of him
00:51:36this for the final spot on the podium oh boy god love to make it back to that podium look really
00:51:41really good coming out of turn 11 but he just doesn't have much push to pass left neither does
00:51:45rosenquist as it goes to zero so nothing left to defend with here comes lungard shaping him up goes
00:51:52to the inside had to do it there had to get it done and he executed rosie tried to fight it but just
00:51:59gave him enough room heads up driving as both drivers exhausted their push to pass on that final
00:52:06attempt there this is like a video game when you're simply out of ammo at this point both guys it's now
00:52:11hand-to-hand combat with five to go but man again great comeback drive from christian lingard you hear
00:52:19that lift from rosenquist he's having to save a little bit of fuel not able to fight as much in the
00:52:23mclaren team jacked that's a nice way to thank your team after having to rebuild a brand new race car
00:52:29and this is a guy this is a guy who has shown up he has turned up since getting to that team getting
00:52:36his feet very much underneath that desk straight away he turned up to a team which is built around
00:52:41pato award a car which is really set up to pato's liking and lungard saying i'm still getting to grips
00:52:48with this car he's performed sensationally and let's think about that since pato really took over
00:52:53that role at that team and started developing it you've had felix rosenquist in that car couldn't make
00:52:58it work i'll be right on board with him now in this replay i loved how he kind of went then held up
00:53:04and then fired in with authority kind of kept rosenquist guessing i think rosenquist a little unsure
00:53:09whether or not lungard was going to really go for it i think lungard a little unsure if he was really
00:53:14gonna go for but we don't call him what is it lunge guard for nothing he knew he was out of push to
00:53:19pass that was his last chance to make that move happen committed to it and and made it work and
00:53:23it started at the hairpin with just a brilliantly executed run through the middle of the corner in
00:53:29that ultra slow part of the racetrack just back to that point you know he had rosenquist alongside
00:53:34pato he couldn't really get the same kind of speed and fight for wins the way award could then
00:53:39he had alex rossi same thing struggled to really get the performance out of it nolan siegel's been driving
00:53:43that car taylor porscher has been in that car now you've got christian lungard who already has
00:53:48one podium in the first two races about to make it two i'll tell you who's looking racy here is
00:53:53colton hurta james because 12 seconds to push to pass remaining will power next car ahead four
00:53:59seconds left power almost out of juice mclaughlin fifth then power then hurta then dixon fifth to
00:54:08eighth split by well you can see it not a lot the cigarette paper between mclaughlin and herta as
00:54:13it stands right now on the run down through shoreline drive with three to go herts are
00:54:18having a look not quite close enough for a look this time around but he sense it's coming
00:54:23powers out of push to pass rosacris and lungard out of push to pass they are down to the last
00:54:29drakes of these final laps it's not often you see that many guys up front already out i know
00:54:36there's only three laps to go but a lot can happen when they're running this close together
00:54:40like you say t-ball you're normally still a few in hand for that last lap if something should happen
00:54:48and that'll be good for their fuel number 100 renewable fuel courtesy of shell won't be pushing
00:54:53that button too much just got to go for it now two to go kirkwood leads below 4.4 seconds this the battle
00:55:00ultimately for fifth place between power mclaughlin herta and that man there scott dixon
00:55:05dixon still has 15 seconds on hand as well but time running out pretty quick the question is how
00:55:13hard does her to try here to get himself into sixth as the points run right now colvin herta sits seventh
00:55:21in the championship he'll only have a couple of opportunities before the advanced auto parts
00:55:25checkered flag is waved here in long beach what a thrilling afternoon we have had here
00:55:30in southern california scott dixon running eighth and trying to make the strategy work as it has done
00:55:36for lingard and think about this just behind scott dixon that green white and black car stingray rob
00:55:42look at the names that stingray rob is hanging on to easily i think the best drive of his indycar career
00:55:49you've got multiple champions and race winners just ahead of you and kiffin simpson on pace for his best ever
00:55:56career indycar finish good stuff from the young guns and i like that these two are that's close
00:56:01and battling each other there's a lot of pride on the line here two young drivers both the year of
00:56:05experience in the indycar series both on course for career best or matching best finishes good heart
00:56:12on board here from stingray rob shows the gap to those champions in front and i tell you the pace that
00:56:17stingray is running right now if this race was five laps longer you'd have a chance of finishing eight seven
00:56:22six maybe even fifth he's coming he's a half a second three quarters of a second a lap faster than
00:56:28those guys one lap to go look at the number of push to pass seconds that kyle kirkwood is going to take
00:56:33with him although you can't take him anywhere kyle kirkwood told me in the lead up to this season
00:56:40how much he had worked on himself on his body on his mind over the winter he was so unhappy not taking
00:56:49home of victory in 2024 he said that was the first thing that he wanted to correct this season the
00:56:55second was consistency he has had that for the opening three weekends and here in long beach he has been
00:57:02dominant and crushingly perfect from pole position to the checkered flag kyle kirkwood wins in long beach
00:57:11oh my gosh great job as always thank you guys so much
00:57:28well that was a perfect run from kyle kirkwood ultimately 2.6 seconds the gap over alex below
00:57:34over the line but what a brilliant race from the 26 year old floridian to make good on that pole position
00:57:40to make good on that promise and to get his season kick-started the way that he needed it and a
00:57:46huge tip of the hat i'm sure from alex below as he went by kyle kirkwood a salute saying hey i had
00:57:52nothing for you today brilliantly executed kirkwood second in the championship now after that stunning
00:57:59performance just 34 points back of alex below that's closer that's less of a lead than below had
00:58:05coming in yeah and let's have a word for lungard made that alternate strategy work for him brilliant
00:58:12drive another podium two in a row now for him and that's got him up into third place in the championship
00:58:18right now the top three in this race are your top three in the championship just below leading kirkwood
00:58:23over lungard so that kind of consistency it's great top four you're right rosenquist fourth and points now
00:58:29just incredible fun to see some new names three races in kirkwood lungard rosenquist not the normal
00:58:36names we see in the top four yeah not drivers we were seeing in the top five at the end of the
00:58:41season last year it's great to see them up there this year will power doing a good job coming back
00:58:49from a tough qualifying up eight positions for him and here's where it gets really interesting those top four
00:58:54in the race and the top four in the championship have never won an indy 500 wow great point it is a
00:59:03third career win for kyle kirkwood coming at the track where he won his very first pole and his very
00:59:10first ntt indy car series race there is something about this track there's something about street
00:59:15tracks that just naturally speaks to kyle kirkwood but what a consistent and impressive start to the
00:59:21season for him top 10 in qualifying and race result in all three races thus far run but it doesn't get
00:59:29much better than leading home and winning from pole position something he's done here in long beach
00:59:35twice i texted him last night and said hey the swell is two to three tomorrow in malibu if you win are
00:59:41you going to stay and surf with me we'll have to see if he extends his southern california visit
00:59:46kirkwood beautiful day with the sun finally popping at just the right time
01:00:04wow
01:00:16kirkwood beat his team down to victory like he's that fast it's uh it's a great thing to see i mean
01:00:29drivers want to win any race in the indy car series oh my gosh but this one is special right kirkwood
01:00:36reaches for the sky to celebrate the win and we can hear from him now and he's at least had one teammate
01:00:45down here to greet him kyle kirkwood is getting used to victory lane at long beach two of his three
01:00:50wins all three on street courses and kyle you've just beaten the driver that some started to wonder
01:00:57if he was beatable at all how did you hold off alex below after your last stop and you came out
01:01:02right in front of him on cold tires i tell you why he didn't make it easy on us um i mean hats off to
01:01:07pre-fab honda today good job brother dude excuse his language um i mean yeah i mean what what a great
01:01:16day we controlled the race from from pratt or even from practice right i mean we felt like we were in
01:01:21control really good qualifying amazing race amazing strategy but it was it was just execution all across
01:01:29the board is what won us that race here today because if polo was in front he would have beat us for
01:01:35for sure um this this was a uh track position race here today without any yellows and um i mean hats off
01:01:41to the prefab honda and ready guys amazing job and this is our coast to coast weekend with with andretti
01:01:47and twg motorsports and to finish it off with a win man that is so cool so cool so hats off to the
01:01:54entire organization um they really deserve this one and you're second in the championship now is the 27
01:01:59team coming oh we're trying i said that before this weekend this is this is where we turn it around
01:02:04and um you know we're super happy with this win but we're also upset that below finished second right
01:02:10like what we we need to start getting more of these um that's the only way to beat them so um we're gonna
01:02:14reflect on this one soak in this win and then uh straight into barber uh where hopefully we can do
01:02:19this all over again but this is a good one it's been a long time i had a drought last year of no wins and uh
01:02:25this is huge for me huge for my morale huge for the 27 crew huge for honda uh 50th grand prix here
01:02:31long beach right and to win it in a honda the acura grand prix is huge and a two-time winner here in
01:02:36the streets of long beach and the team is here go celebrate kyle kirkwood wins again
01:02:42celebrations begin as he embraces dan taurus
01:02:47he's led from start to finish but as he said alex pillow did not make it easy kirkwood gets his first
01:02:54win of the season on the circuit where he scored his first ever win
01:03:03well i've tweeted karl kirkwood or christian lungard for driver of the day but lots of you coming back
01:03:11with stingray rob and that's a big and valid shout because stingray rob all the way down in 19th in
01:03:20qualifying finishing ninth in the end another stonking drive from willpower he went from 21st to 6th at
01:03:28thermal he's gone from 13th to 5th here today but a big shout out to those uh those that are sharing
01:03:38their drivers of the day i definitely agree with what you're saying there but for me karl kirkwood
01:03:44soaking up the pressure from alex pillow being perfect around here for 90 laps plus some in
01:03:51qualifying yesterday and christian lungard a great pass on phoenix rosenquist late on in that race to
01:04:01really cement what has been a very strong start for him in the papaya and i'm sure he will continue to go
01:04:08from strength to strength in 2025 a case of what could have been for colton herter down in seventh
01:04:17place and he came into this championship with or third round of the championship with a 16th and a
01:04:23fourth under his belt he's not really been able to build on that momentum from thermal scott dixon in
01:04:33eighth he'll be ruining a difficult qualifying session in the end but what about marcus ericsson
01:04:40down in 12th what went wrong for him pato award 13th just ahead of his average finish here at 15th and
01:04:48alexander rossi finishing there in 15th place so for some of those drivers who featured in the early
01:04:56stages that long beach race went away from them but down in victory lane it's karl kirkwood all smiles
01:05:04for him the first win for andretti global in 2025 his first win of the 2025 season immediately
01:05:14citing that he was upset with pillow finishing second but this is a good day in the office for
01:05:22andretti and will head to the next race in barba with plenty of enthusiasm and confidence in that
01:05:29stable favorite way of celebrating the win is going out with the team because it is a team sport it's not
01:05:38only just me and the car it's a whole group around me we like to get together and celebrate as a big
01:05:43organization drinks are on car kirkwood tonight a peerless display here in long beach and there is
01:05:53your advanced auto parts checkered flag moment a thoroughly deserved victory a wonderful drive
01:06:01there's just something about this place that meshes so well with that guy uh ultimately the man who
01:06:08leads the championship and won the first two races of the season didn't have it in his locker to
01:06:12take the fight to the race winner today we can hear now though from alex below he's with jack
01:06:18the reigning indycar champion alex below you're starting the season two wins in a second you've
01:06:23got to be happy with this right absolutely absolutely um i mean you never feel amazing when you finish
01:06:29second um but honestly uh the 27 car kyle uh they were amazing all weekend super fast um i tried i
01:06:37tried my chances but we couldn't really make it work um had a really bad start on my side and
01:06:42that kind of put us in the back foot but anyway i think we did the best we could um amazing to be
01:06:48here second but hopefully next year we can just improve one step and your family are here your mom
01:06:53your dad your sister it was so cool getting to see you celebrate with them just say what that support
01:06:58means to you as well yeah absolutely i don't get to see them very very often uh living in the states
01:07:03and they're still in spain uh but yeah it's amazing it's been four months since i've seen them
01:07:07um and for me to get them a podium it's good uh and i cannot wait for them to to meet uh my daughter
01:07:15uh on monday so yeah congratulations jump thank you kevin it's back-to-back podiums now for christian
01:07:21lungard he uh goes from 12th to third and you were the highest starter starting on the harder compound
01:07:27seemed to work pretty well what made it work for you uh this one's dedicated to the crew uh i think
01:07:33everybody on the uh the number seven villa mcclaren chevrolet got to rebuild the car yesterday i tubbed
01:07:39the car uh in the crash in uh in qualifying um this is to them it's to john edwards who unfortunately
01:07:47passed away close to carl arson who'll join us for for the month of may so uh this one's to everybody
01:07:53on on the entire entire mcclaren team you had a big time overtake at the end of the race getting past
01:07:58felix rosenquist it's tough to pass here how did you get that done it's it's funny because i uh i was
01:08:05on lap 42 and i saw i had 109 seconds left and then i forgot about it i forgot about my overtake so
01:08:15i think that that paid dividends at the end of the race and we're able to uh to get felix there i think
01:08:20he was being nice uh at the end there in turn one but i'm just proud to get this one for the team this
01:08:26this is uh the work that they put in yesterday i told him i'll buy them a couple of beers when we
01:08:31got home next week but i think uh giving them a trophy is uh it's good on top of that too well
01:08:36done christian lungard is third in the championship now hey you're not done go celebrate get up that
01:08:41podium it's about time for that great mature reaction from lungard after putting it in the
01:08:46barriers yesterday and giving his team a huge amount of work to do overnight it's kirkwood from
01:08:50pillow and lungard your top three felix rosenquist fourth will power fifth then scott mclaughlin sixth
01:08:56colton hertta seventh scott dixon eight stingray rob ninth tenth kiffin simpson who also took the
01:09:03fastest lap his first since saint pete 2024
01:09:07and here to present our third place trophy is joe preciato business manager of the southern california
01:09:35district of labors and liuna
01:09:45congratulations christian
01:09:50now we move on to our second place finisher let's hear it for alex
01:09:56and here to present our second place trophy is doug gibson vice president of west sales at guermo
01:10:06congratulations alex and now the moment we've all been waiting for let's welcome our accurate
01:10:26and here to present the first place trophy is lance wolfer vice president of auto sales at american honda
01:10:52calling in the last two days
01:11:05and here is the top three kirkwood pillow lingard guys what a day here in long beach what a race run from
01:11:17kirkwood just sum up what it takes to win around here well it takes a great team as you see dan
01:11:25taurus the team owner for andretti he's invested massively to give kyle kirkwood and colton hurta
01:11:31and marcus erickson and andretti a great race car and they showed it to james today simply
01:11:37dominant in terms of pace nobody had anything for him pace but also execution and that's been the
01:11:42big thing we've seen this as the most uh consistent highest performing team on average over qualifying
01:11:47so far this year but they had no cars in the top five in points that was saying sundays were going
01:11:52a bit south so for this team look we had problems on the colin hurta machine marcus erickson down in
01:11:5712th after starting fifth so two out of three didn't perform the way you wanted but kirkwood
01:12:02managed to pull it off beautifully joseph newgarden 27th and last of course problems with his belts and
01:12:09it was worse than we thought apparently that happened three times in total so twice more
01:12:14which i believe when it happened to willpower there was multiple times in the same race as well
01:12:18here's your championship standings polo of course still stands on top on 142 points but look at that
01:12:25kirkwood up to second lungard now sitting in third and rosenquist sitting in fourth dixon fifth then
01:12:32award herta mclaughlin power and alexander rossi completing the top 10 but that guys the result
01:12:38today for kirkwood it's exactly what he said he needed for the start of his season it's that
01:12:43consistency three top 10 finishes in a row and the win here today now some big names that you know
01:12:48don't populate right now like willpower but he did move up five spots in the championship but again as
01:12:54we get closer to may you've got newgarden and willpower that you know will be fast at the indy 500
01:13:00so this championship all more than likely gonna converge and tighten up down the stretch it's gonna be a
01:13:07blast what a phenomenal weekend here in long beach you enjoyed it boys absolutely tonight won here in
01:13:14indy lights you won here in indy car this moment the champagne the sun the partying that's just gonna
01:13:20start for all those drivers sweetness is all i can remember it's just one of the best feelings you
01:13:26know we talk a lot about this event the history of it how special it is to win here kyle kirkwood's
01:13:31now done it twice in a very young career it's a great sign of things ahead for this guy
01:13:36i'll tell you guys i've been following racing around the world for years i don't think i've
01:13:40ever encountered an experience an atmosphere like the one i have this weekend in long beach it's been
01:13:45utterly incredible such a thrill and so much fun and a culinary adventure for you there's still plenty
01:13:52more to explore before the day is over absolutely uh what a wonderful weekend what a phenomenal race
01:13:58and what an outstanding drive from kyle kirkwood he didn't just take pole position yesterday he
01:14:05absolutely blasted his way to pole position a massive advantage over the rest of the field it
01:14:11should have been ominous then it should have been a warning but nobody not even championship leader
01:14:16and three-dime champion alex polo could have expected just how fast how perfect kyle kirkwood would be
01:14:23today but at the same time alex polo knows he is still doing everything he needs to do
01:14:28thinking big picture thinking long term thinking championship number four you ever been to alabama
01:14:33it's going to be my first time how cool is that next drop cannot wait
01:14:39that day's old fucks extracted and we will be back at alabama for the indie grand prix sunday may the
01:14:48board at 1 30 eastern we can't wait thank you for joining us here in long beach for myself
01:14:54townsend and james it is a very warm goodbye
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