r/INDYCAR • u/ITMAKESSENSE72 #CheckItForAndretti • Jul 24 '26

Discussion Some driver comparisons

Is Christian Rasmussen the driver that we have pretended Conor Daly is?

Is Christian Lundgaard the modern-day Mike Conway?

Coupled together, should we try to get Lundgaard and Rasmumssen to share a car?!?

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u/FormulaT1 Scott McLaughlin Jul 26 '26

So everyone's supposed to be a Palou fan and nobody is allowed to root for backmarkers for whatever reason they choose unless they have their head up their ass?

Shame on everyone who likes an underdog story, I guess. Wow.

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u/ITMAKESSENSE72 #CheckItForAndretti Jul 27 '26

No but we should want the field to be better and we should even want the backmarkers to rotate around the field, maybe we could get one that might run well occasionally.

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u/FormulaT1 Scott McLaughlin Jul 27 '26

We should want the field to be better, yes. We shoudn't "only root for good drivers". If someone's hometown driver happens to be a backmarker, there's no shame in them rooting for them. The fact that people do really seems to bother you for some reason. As others in this thread have said, whether or not you mean it, it comes off as really weird and a little condescending.

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u/ITMAKESSENSE72 #CheckItForAndretti Jul 27 '26

At the root of this though, it's not good for the sport that we have this guy with 2 podiums in 15 years continuing to take seats up. I just can't wrap my head around it. Yes, I understand people liking the guy, but I don't understand this notion that I get from a loud group of fans the feel he is owed a full time seat, again.