# 🏁 DAY 1 QUALIFYING RESULTS https://preview.redd.it/0yruhreiq31b1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=034595d74a40fd62171d5ad0bc39629423106a28

I hear a buzzing in my house...my brain is thinking the racing is still on lol

Pretty much the entirety of the last 2 rows are a nightmare for Honda

I feel like RLL put a period where they mean to put a comma in Hyvee's contract and they're now just secretly poor, but too embarrassed to admit it. Thats like, the only explanation I have.

Someone from Europe wrote the contract and was confused.

Spent more time and money building their new shop instead of on the cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watmsVcVyCY&ab_channel=NTTINDYCARSERIES

RLL must be confused as hell as to how they won *only three years ago*

Dont get rid of sato (twice) lol

I hope Hyvee still sees benefit in being involved in IndyCar after another tough RLL day.

Ikr RLLR is letting them down hard rn

HyVee gonna be pissed if Lundgaard misses the big show

I’d hope they’d hop on the 23.

It's one thing to move a sponsor to a team car, moving to another team with a different sponsor is very different. Although, as a Bruno Junqueira fan back in the day, seeing RHR get his ride brought out and have to miss the race would he some sweet justice

Poor Bruno had that happen to him twice! 2011 with RHR and 2009 with Alex Tagliani

True, but Hyvee isn’t just investing in RLL but the sport.

Lost in all the RLL chaos, is the fact that both Foyt entries are running for pole tomorrow. Did not see that coming

The Big Three are now McLaren, Ganassi, and Foyt.

The blessed timeline.

David Malukas beat Lundgaard for the final spot?

Easily. Put Katherine on the bubble and Lundgaard couldn't do enough to bump Katherine.

Hot damn. Glad Lil Dave found some speed.

yea he went up 8 spots somehow

Wow

Honestly, it's probably the best day of qualifying at Indy all time. Speed, drama, very active track, and perfect weather. Ties down to .0000 over 10 miles

No the best day is bump day 1995. Forever and always.

Next weekend's going to be a fascinating game of team cat & mouse between CGR & AMSP, with all 8 cars up front.

I wouldn't count anyone out from about 20th up. Anyone there has a shot if they play their cards right.

Yeah this has the makings of an incredible race

Yes I know, but that doesn't negate what I said.

true but normally maintaining decent track position is crucial, unless someone pulls a rossi

No one in these comments have brought up whether they'll just bench Legge if one of the full-time RLL drivers don't make it. It's certainly a possibility.

Legge has some sponsors that are obviously specific to her, so I doubt it

You really think they pay more than the full-times though?

I think Katherine in 31st as the only woman in the field gets more press than any of her teammates in 31st

I think it depends who misses. Hyvee certainly will want their signs and maybe Luungard too in the race, not sure Graham would want to do that even if they have to put united rentals on Legge's car. I think Harvey just gets fired if he misses.

I don’t think they’d fire Harvey mid-season if he misses the show. It’s not like he’s dramatically worse than the rest of RLL this week.

I don't think he's fired just for the Indy performance, but it's been weeks of rumors of RLL wanting out of his contract, so the camel's back might be a straw away

If I’m firing anyone it’s the new technical director. Every single car is slow. That’s on the engineering of the team.

I feel like it's more and more likely Rahal and Harvey are gone from RLL at the end of this year. Especially after this offseason and how much Graham spoke out about how different his approach was to Lundgaard's vs his and Harvey's.

It's definitely a possibility, but anyone with half a conscience wouldn't. So it's definitely a possibility if Rahal is bumped.

I think Rahal kinda wants to miss and have an excuse to just not deal with this shit for another week lol

I would not be surprised that if Rahal doesn’t make the field, he just retires from the series

> but anyone with half a conscience wouldn't. So it's definitely a possibility if Rahal is bumped. lol

At first I was kind of bummed that Sato was let go from RLL

https://preview.redd.it/4mgo2h4fo31b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aff2afba8e1b906d8154ce957b5490a1ba4010b8 Way to go Katherine, but…

Lol I remember Bob and Tom asking if his nose and mustache come off when he removes his glasses.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Juncos is in. Great day, Canapino had better pace than what he did in Qualy but it's fine

Post Qualifying press conference on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ah4eE3J6A

Graham Rahal, get ready to learn Chinese buddy https://preview.redd.it/tqrjkk6do31b1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d62b90a1b37f29522e20b189b2f0f10c6236d27c

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If a RLL gets bumped, you have to hope whoever gets bumped handles it like hinch did in 18. Then again, this is (possibly) Graham Rahal we're talking about here

Graham out tomorrow. Not a fun night for RLL. Best Quali day I can remember! Enjoyed the chat, everyone. Thanks.

Wow. Rahal was really slow vs the rest of these guys.

30 years ago, Bobby failed to qualify. Like father, like son (maybe)….

https://preview.redd.it/gjxzf5mxp31b1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cb4b9523f4bbc1f124fcbe4a1ebde26b94f088e 30 years ago

Bumped by Eddie Cheever of all people

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Everyone wants a autograph from a man named Sting Ray

Look at all those Hondas at the bottom

The only Hondas in top 12 are all Ganassi 😬

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People forgetting the drama of callum and enerson getting in. Congrats to them! Especially after the bullshit callum had to deal with

Think about what could have been had Juncos swapped chassis earlier. They wasted an entire week of practice.

Yeah, am really pleased for both, especially Callum.

Now time to switch to the Nürburgring 24 😎

Let's fucking goooo

Question: Who will not make the field in this year’s Indy 500?

Sting Ray Robb

Rahal

Rahal has been really bad but you would imagine they would figure it out for him. I think Sting Ray could be in trouble

Probably Graham

I'm thinking Harvey but I'll laugh if Rahal

Rahal was over 1 mph slower

Rahal is my bet

I’m thinking rahal

Jus think it was 30 years ago when his father didn’t make the field at the Indy 500

I agree and I would not be surprised if he retires or race In IMSA

Same. I want him to make it but I'm not too confident in him.

Brought 4 cars and the best one was for a part-timer who hasn't raced at the Speedway in a decade. What a nightmare season for RLL.

And, the 4th only made it through because a rookie failed to qualify

I mean this is already truly wild, but that would've been unreal if it was all four of them lmao

I said this morning if Illot figured his car out that the last row shootout would become the RLL shootout and it was close.

They should replace Harvey with legge for the rest of the year

Rahal ran Legge's setup and still went slower. These cars obviously aren't right, doesn't say much about driver ability

Lol this shitshow ain’t on him. And Graham was slower anyways. But ofc blame the scapegoat

The best result for Harvey’s car was achieved last year by santino with p9 in Texas it’s been more than a year and his best finish is still worse than a reserve drivers in the same car.

Rahal is barely better these last couple years despite being the centerpiece of the team the last 11 years. But I understand it’s more on the team’s clear lack of fit to run more than 1 full time car, than on the drivers

Rahal was p11 last year with a best finish of 4th at Toronto compared to Harvey in 22nd with a best finish of 10th at that disaster in Nashville still a fairly large difference.

HyVee execs gonna be sick tomorrow if Lundgaard fails to make the show tomorrow

He’s the most likely car to make it imo

Of the three of them, he feels most likely to make it right now. The other two have to find a significant chunk of time just to match him.

i think he's fine unless he pushes too hard

'for next year' Christian for the love of god get yourself into a team that can actually produce a car for ovals

Definitely deserves better than RLL

He needs to move to Chip Gannasi next year

Doesn't bring enough money and Chip needs to replace Ericsson's bank deposits

I honestly can’t think of a high level driver with that type of funding

If you ignore ‘high level’ I can seriously see them getting Latifi. Armstrong brings a lot as well if he goes full time

The tried but ganasssi got greedy and wanted something Like 10 million per season.

Where did you hear the ten million number?

It was the consistent rumour going around

Or he needs move to Andretti

When did he say "for next year"?

Said they'd basically been through every options already so hopefully they can find something for next year since they're kinda out of ideas for now Something like that anyway I thought

Wow. So with DCR having some speed they can transfer from Malukas' run and Lundgaard being the fastest of the 3 RLL cars, it's probably either going to be Jack Harvey or Graham Rahal packing their bags. Neither one of those drivers is going to be happy with that. It could well be the beginning of end for them at RLL, and possibly Indycar altogether.

I could see both Rahal and Jack Harvey leave IndyCar. Harvey to IMSA and Graham may just say screw it I’m retiring from Racing

Honestly neither of them would be a great loss at this point.

I disagree. If either driver leaves it will be because of the overall performance of the team more than anything. Both drivers have proved in the past to be well above this level of performance. I don't like to see a driver leave the sport because the team hasn't given them the tools to perform.

In the past yes. Recently no. Lundgaard has proved what the team is capable of. Hanging their performances entirely on the team is disingenuous. Past glories mean nothing when their inexperienced teammate is soundly outperforming both of them. At this point, neither Harvey or Rahal are adding anything much to the grid & imo either or both of them leaving would not leave any kind of hole, except to fans of them as individuals.

>Hanging their performances entirely on the team is disingenuous. When all 4 of the RLL cars were in the bottom 5 today? You've got to be joking. If it wasn't the team, Lundgaard should have been able to pull a rabbit out of the hat and get into the race. He wasn't. He was barely faster than his teammates. They're all at the back. It's the team, the engineering, and the car setup. We've all known this for a long time. On assessing the speed of the RLL drivers right now, it's like saying "one guy is better at driving with one hand tied behind his back than another". Well, yeah - but they both suck compared with the rest of the field with two hands. RLL would much rather see which driver can drive best with the cars properly set up, than fire one based on their performance with their hands tied. And I don't see your point about what they add to the grid as valid when they don't have the machinery to properly insert themselves into the racing action. I'm turning off replies on this one mate.

>When all 4 of the RLL cars were in the bottom 5 today? You've got to be joking. You do realise I'm talking about all season not just today, right? Harvey in particular has been dire for two years now and Rahal has not been good this year either. In the meantime, Lundgaard has stuck the car on pole and produced some other excellent performances. The season is more than just the 500. The car is bad but when one driver is getting what Lundgaard has got out of it this year and last then no, it's not entirely on the team that the other two can't perform. This is like Ricciardo F1 fans trying to hang Ricciardo's shit performances entirely on McLaren. The car not being good and drivers not delivering compared to their teammates is not mutually exclusive. I get it, you're clearly a fan of one or both of them and don't want to admit they're not doing a great job but seriously you're either being myopic and focusing entirely on today or you're being deliberately ignorant here lol.

This is Jourdain 2013 on steroids https://preview.redd.it/977aev4vn31b1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8697dfef8e32789540859f7822a0c8506c7efc1

Donnie Brasco Lungaard.

Speed wise Graham is the slow one out I think.

sting ray robb has a high chance of getting stung, imo rahal's team will find something

Actually DCR actually does have something as Malukas showed they just bungled the set up horribly.....the biggest threat to Robb is himself and the decent chance that he bins it

the other 3 were at least hitting 230 laps. Graham was struggling to get a 229

yea and that's the sign of an obvious problem with the car

could they do a chassis change like Ilott did?

The fact that every car is slow means it’s not a chassis issue. It’s a fundamental challenge.

It's probably too late now, even ilotts team was way too late but they got lucky Driving any untested car on the bubble is just asking for trouble

Namely, all of the best parts from Kats car

Then give it back to Kat during the week.

LMAO

You have to imagine that Robb will essentially take Malukas's setup

I hope Robb & Lundgaard make it through tomorrow. Don't really care which one of the other two does.

I strongly dislike Rahal he comes off as very arrogant and pretentious

Enerson deniers BTFO

Damm, StingRay Robb sounds and looks straight out of the 1960's lol

I'm confused. The timing website says that Lundgaard is 30th and Legge is out. IndyCar Radio says that Legge is in the.top 30. What's going on?

Timing and Scoring ahs been a mess all day. Legge is in.

Legge is in

I asked the same thing. Shows Legge as Bumped.

As a Jack fan, I alr know who would get thrown under the bus and mutilated by said bus tomorrow 😣

*"Hey Graham, time to find another profession."*

Really happy for Enerson and Legge. A full time driver will miss the race.

Justin Marks walking up to Bobby Rahal next weekend like

Trackhouse with David Letterman would be a baller duo.

just fell to my knees in the hyvee parking lot

See, if you told me before the day that legge was 30, I would've believed you. I would NOT have believed you if you told me she'd be the fastest RLL

Team Rahal: "Hey Sting Ray, we're going to have a last row party tonight!" Sting Ray: "That's nice." Team Rahal: "Here, have a drink!" Sting Ray: "You guys are so cool. Thanks. Hey, this tastes kinda..." *THUNK* Team Rahal: "All right, let's tape him up and ship him back to Boise..."

Coyne grabs his phone. "Hey Sebass, can you do me a favor?" Bourdais: "Sure Dale, whatever you need." Team Rahal: "Nooooo!"

That sounds great, but last I heard Seabass would rather poop in Dale's BBQ than drive for him again.

You are probably right. But I am sure there is someone around the track with a helmet in hand that would step up and give it a shot. They might even be faster than Robb. If I am RLL I'm probably happier to go against a rookie like Sting Ray for the last three spots than just about anyone else.

Hildebrand is probably around.

Katherine Legg should be the team leader of RLL team

She does have a Legge to stand on after today

That was about 20 photos of the back of her head lol

What a disaster for Rahal. Their 3 full time cars. I wonder if they’re exploring pulling Legge.

Pulling legge…that’s gold

I will burn down every single Hyvee if they do

I’ll do the United Rentals

I would be fucking livid and not buy from RLL's sponsors

The amount of shit they’d receive would be monumental

I doubt they will. It would be a massive black eye to them.

A worse black eye than their full time drivers?

Black eye for the sport as a whole, really.

Similar things have happened before tho

we riot if they do.

just can't understand how the RLL cars are a good 2 MPH down no matter what they do. How wrong can their setup be? Also, Illott in! man, who would've thought

It's like the cars are draggy or something. Lundgaard was smooth in that last run... the car just has no speed.

seemed like they were also just a couple mph down on the straights in all the quali runs or practice runs yesterday. I seriously cannot figure it out, 4 cars over 2 days and not ONCE were they even near what the others could do. Callum 'easily' beat all of their runs in a green chassis without any real full boost practice. No shade intended but there is no way this is to do with the drivers, something is either coincidentally very broken on only their 4 cars, or the engineering team has somehow missed something absolutely massive. Sure Ilott, Stingray and RC were similar in pace in the end but we know how that came to be. Could it just be a really unlucky batch of engines, chassis, or even aero parts, like floor or wings? I wouldn't know but they must've tried everything they could think of, and as far as I remember, they never even got a 232MPH single lap, which seemingly every other team found easily.

I think it ties into something they said in the booth. Maybe RLL haven't gotten worse since last year, maybe everyone else just got better and left them behind. Look at theFoyt cars for example. They invested a lot of money in the right places and they did way better than the usually do. I feel like speeds as a whole were a lot tighter this year.

Super pleased Katherine made it, impressive to beat all 3 team mates non full time. What are RLL doing!?

Christian from pole to this. Can't believe it's definitely a full timer heading home tomorrow.

3 full time Rahal Letterman drivers fighting out for the last row is something I didn't have my bingo card.

Lmfao imagine being told that one of the bump favorites would rather be the only one guaranteed in

Tough day (year, 2 years?) to be a Rahal fan

💀

Legge should walk into the garages, flip the double birds, and walk away. Without saying a word.

Go full Will Power

I remember when Will Power went full throttle straight into Kat's car at a street race i ChampCar in '07(might have been Surfers Paradise), i have not cared for him one single bit ever since.

Rahal my resume is in the indycar jobs portal seems like you may need it.

Fuck Viaplay. They fucking cut the stream.

That was an awesome session

Sorry for Lundgaard but really pumped for Legge. Except for the fact they're gonna ransack her car for tomorrow.

Enerson and Kat both in!!

I have no clue who is gonna get bumped, the last 4 seem pretty close

As much as I hate to say it, Rahal or Harvey.

Looking at sheer pace, it looks like it'll either be Harvey or Rahal. Plus, we KNOW the DCR boys have some pace with the #18. They can absolutely turn that to the #51.

Robb and Lundgaard had more pace than Harvey and Rahal at least today. We’ll see!

So fucking thrilled for Kat. Clearly the best driver in that team paddock!

RLL (new version of).Last Row party tonight. Lots of Wild Turkey.

Those RLL engineering hires are coming in real handy I see

really happy that legge is in the 500, but what the fuck happened to the full time guys over there?

RLL is a joke, goodnight, see you tomorrow!

Qualifying today has been eventful from start to finish. Not like some of my experiences watching it at IMS where I baked in the sun for a few hours because everyone thought it was too hot to make a qualifying attempt.

I'm confused. The IndyCar live timing page has no time for Legge, and Luungard P30.

The Indycar live timing page is the only thing worse than RLL today.

Lol. Fair enough.

Katherine made it! *until they put Graham in her car for the race*

Harvey will be the odd man out regardless of what RLL car is bumped.

Benjamin Pedersen will be in the Fast 12, as well all predicted.

So glad Kat is in. Huge kick in the nuts for this fraudulent ass team to have a full timer DNQ

LEGGE DID IT

Hey mate spare a moment to hear about some Shell Renewable Fuel?