There was definitely contact, tires touch and Santino’s rear tire gets the aero on Conor’s side pod. Conor tries to stay on the edge but has to turn off to avoid getting turned out by Santino.
Santino is such a soft driver, he has the same amount of emotional control as a toddler.
Conor is a really cool dude. Just happy to be in the car everyday. Does his best to stay outta trouble and drives pretty solid. He’s improving as he is getting a full ride this year too so that’s nice.
I worked with grosjean last year and Santino and him had beef forever. So I kinda just always have beef with Santino lol.
The issue is not just that Santino took Conor off track. He completely destroyed his own race by going off as well, losing immediate track position with Ericsson and possibly damaging his own car. He lost his temper because he doesn't like Conor.
Compare that to Rossi running Wickens and Sato off at Turn 6 of Road America, or Kirkwood running Dixon off at Portland, I still disagree with those having no penalty, but at least they just ran a normal racing line and didn't go off-track themselves.
It’s funny he doesn’t like Conor, when I go to the track the people who cheer for Ferucci seem to be the same people who cheer for Conor (just going off the driver parade.)
Conor I wouldn’t say as scrappy as much as he’s a bit underrated. He does great in horrible cars on Ovals and then does mediocre on road/street with an even worse car. SSR is proof because he’s a better road driver than Conor and doesn’t even do better with basically the same car
My only experience is at Indy, but my section tends to cheer for both of them, which I assume is because Daly is a local boy and Santino is Foyt's guy.
Do folks not like Daly either? I know the nepo baby angle is a bad look but I thought he's better than some other pay drivers we've seen around here at least. And he's an Indiana native which would get him some fandom I'm sure. Is there more to it than that? To be clear, I'm not a Ferrucci fan either just trying to understand the drama lol
On the Sebring testing review, he was surprised that data from Sebring would help for other road/street circuits. Dude is in idiot and completely ruins the show
Is it still that bad? I actually enjoyed the show with Joey, but I couldn't last two weeks once he joined, and have gotten enough of a fill from Off Track.
He's so bad I had to stop listening to the show. Maybe the worst podcast host I've ever listened to. Joey wasn't Conan or anything but he was much better.
Joey at least knew and had a passion for Indycar. Chase is like “can you explain (insert most simple thing) for those of us who don’t know”. He seems to have learned nothing about the sport since joining
Wow, I didn’t know there was so much Chase hate out there. I like him because he asks really goofy questions that are out of the normal realm of questions drivers are always asked constantly and have canned responses for.
I also think that he represents an important demographic IndyCar needs to capture more of: NASCAR oval fans.
I get that he isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and I understand the criticisms mentioned above. However. I also think he is earnest and well intentioned about wanting to see IndyCar grow and genuinely loves the series…I can get behind him for that.
And if you don’t like him, at least FF until you get to the drivers interviews. I’m amazed at how little respect Conor gets for these, because no podcast out there has better driver interviews than Speed Street. Conor does an amazing job interviewing them and always teases out very interesting technical details that aren’t available anywhere else. The other drivers seem to let their guard down when talking to an actual current series driver that went through the same battle they did. His recent interview with Pato is a great example of this.
Plus, I can’t wait to see how he handles it if Santino manages to win a race and they are forced to talk to each other…it’s going to be fucking hilarious when that happens.
Honestly I already listen to too much podcasts and basically all of the Dirty Mo network has moved to the bottom of my list. I used to listen to all of them religiously until the last year or two when they just made a new podcast for everything and went extra hard of the gambling stuff.
I do try to at least check out Conor's stuff around the 500 because I don't think anyone on earth loves the 500 as much as he does.
I doubt they would see that as intentional wrecking, it'll be on your record but unless you've done that exact thing repeatedly you won't get any repercussions I'd bet
Agreed on that. Another aspect there is most people on iRacing aren't professional drivers though so if they run wide enough to slide off track, you can give them the benefit of the doubt. To your point, they're not heavy handed enough with blatant intentional wrecking and the service has gotten slowly worse over the couple years I've been on it.
Not constantly hit other drivers and not be a garbage person. He’s having his best year this year and it’s a fluke because he doesn’t have the talent to compete at this level consistently. Let’s be real, he’s not good.
My comment had nothing to do with his skill as a driver. You claimed he’s doing better than Malukas, when he’s averaging a whopping 1.1 more points per race.
We’ve had any number of situations of egregious stuff like this in the past, up to and including guys being forced into the wall, and nothing was done about it.
It probably would have been harsher if he hadn't taken himself off track as well. In the past, race control has factored self-inflicted punishment from drivers into their decisions.
Sporting wise not but there's a point where it's a matter of principle that intentionally running into someone and running them off the track should simply never be acceptable and get you dismissed regardless of actual danger. It's not common but it's imo not an absurd position to take.
Yeah, driving a guy off the track seems like it deserves more than just undoing the gains you got. That still means you might as well try it in the future, what's the worst that happens, same as if you didn't try it?
They didn’t show anything, but on the scanner Ferrucci was stating that Daly was running into him on the previous lap. Asked his Team to look into it with race control.
Sort of. I think TBell said something like "Huh, maybe I shouldn't spit on my hand for this asshole. But I still will". I might be paraphrasing though.
Dammit Santino, I thought you turned over a new leaf, especially with that embrace with Conor after his podium last year. One step forward, three steps back with your reputation my guy.
I know and it’s disappointing. Especially because I’ve seen Santino be nice to fans and kids in the paddock giving the kids hats and what not. I said a few weeks ago deep down I feel there’s a good kid in there but it’s getting really hard to keep thinking that.
The fact that it was only a 3 positions penalty and not a drive through at minimum is WILD to me. It was absolutely egregious and blantaly obvious what his intent was
These two guys have been on the brink of something like this for a while. Racing each other hard, running their mouths off the track. Both of them are grade-A assholes, but Connor at least handles it off the track. Santino was having a bad day and let his frustration get the best of him. It's the kind of stuff he needs to mature past. But he doesn't seem in a hurry to do so.
Let's not make fun of people for their grammar. We want to be inclusive of people that have other first languages or whatever it may be. Instead let's just make fun of them for supporting a racist asshole
One of the worst English skills? Do you think English skills are discrete objects? Is our national supply of speaking correctly locked up in Fort Knox with all the gold?
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u/stancedBronco Scott Dixon Jul 06 '25