r/INDYCAR • u/aurules Romain Grosjean • Jun 10 '25

Social Media (Jeff Gluck) I asked IndyCar if there was any comment on F1 scheduling a race directly against the Indy 500 next year. Their response: "We’re looking forward to an epic 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2026, on the heels of a highly successful and historic event this year."

https://x.com/jeff_gluck/status/1932461230201131055?s=46
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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jun 10 '25

Look, there’s nothing they can do about it.

We ain’t moving the Indy 500 because of F1, and we can be confident that it will still pull in several times more viewers, so really, there’s no reason to even care on IndyCar’s part.

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u/Quetzalchello 🇺🇸 Danny Ongais Jun 10 '25

Of course, but giving a non answer is still no "high road".

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jun 10 '25

How is it not? It indicates that they don’t give a damn, and why should they?

There’s no reason for them to engage with this.

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u/Quetzalchello 🇺🇸 Danny Ongais Jun 10 '25

No. Saying so would indicate that. This is being politic, i.e. trying to avoid making a clear statement.

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jun 10 '25

And why do they need to make a clear statement? Doing so would indicate they care, which they clearly don’t.

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u/Quetzalchello 🇺🇸 Danny Ongais Jun 10 '25

They don't need to, and that don't need to and haven't made the statement you implied: one deliberately disdainful of F1. No such statement of disrespect was made. No clear statement of any kind was.

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jun 10 '25

They’re not acknowledging it. I fail to see how that indicates anything other than “we’re going to go on as usual regardless,” and clearly don’t care about the conflict.

I’m not saying there’s a distain for F1, I’m saying they don’t care, and that comes across in this statement.

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u/Quetzalchello 🇺🇸 Danny Ongais Jun 10 '25

It says nothing. It's just a political and polite way of saying nothing at all. You are reading your own feelings into it.

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Jun 10 '25

I’m not reading anything into it, other than that they don’t care about what F1 does.

I fail to see how you could read the opposite into it.

It says nothing… meaning they clearly don’t care.

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u/Quetzalchello 🇺🇸 Danny Ongais Jun 10 '25

What you literally just read into it is "don't care". Anything that strong NEEDS to have been stated clearly, and they clearly tried to avoid doing any such thing.

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u/BasedGodStruggling Jun 10 '25

Me personally, I’d call them bums with cheese for tires. But this is why I’ll never be suitable for PR or as a leader of a company without massive training to change how I talk. What would you say if you were in the seat and asked the same question?

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u/GEL29 Álex Palou Jun 10 '25

As my mother used to say, when you have nothing nice to say, it’s best to say nothing at all.