Dale Coyne

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Oh, there you go.

All right.

So I always know my teammate is going to be where we start with and who I need to beat." But he also said, "Hey, he may wanna bring some things that we hadn't thought about, because I've found that I had, I had some ideas of what things should be, and then I get in this car, and it's..." He didn't have the type of experience that Lundgaard has.

He had come from one year driving with Dale Coyne Racing.

Uh, but he said, "Well, one, that's a benefit that Christian's going to have.

He's gonna find some things that he hadn't experienced before.

goodHe qualified up front-

I know

... with Dale Coyne, and then he should have won the race in his first year with Ganassi.

I understand that.

That's the kind of that's the move that that Dixon would make.

I mean, he wasn't going to leave and go to Juncos or Dale Coyne.

I mean, that wouldn't have been what what happened.

So a good protective, you know, step ahead move on Ganassi's part.

And then we have one more open seat with Junkos Hollinger.

And we need to find out if Ricardo is staying on, if the team's going to be renamed, if they're taking on new partners.

We have one seed at Foyt, and we have two seeds at Dale Coyne, who said several days ago, we'll know in two weeks, and you'll be surprised.

I discussed this on Trackside Extra on Monday.

So one-seeded A.J. Foyt remains unsigned.

Dennis Hauger's come over and taken one of them, both at Dale Coyne.

We haven't had any announcements out of Junkos yet, although it's expected that Rinas VK has signed a multi-year extension with Junkos Hollinger.

There's some questions in the air about whether or not it will remain Junkos Hollinger.

Right.

So, the...

Good money would be on Dale Coyne Racing.

Dale's given opportunities to young drivers a lot over the years.

So here's the other thing I mentioned too in the other show, and I won't go over this again.

I feel pretty confident Nikita Johnson is gonna be in IndyCar, but I, I think it's gonna be Dale Coyne, but I don't know that for certain.

I think Nikita might have options.

Uh, I said the other day that I had heard Josh Pierson is going to get an evaluation test soon.

... for all involved.

Um, he has the biggest financial package that is available, reportedly.

And I think that's where Foyt wants to go, but who will wait that has the next most money compared with the next most talent? And if I'm Dale Coyne, I'm using this to my advantage because I believe Dale Coyne was planning on re-signing Dennis Hauger, didn't get it done in time, and Foyt swooped in partly because of not being able to guarantee Pierson and his budget coming in.

So they brought in a driver with a lot of talent and upside and some budget.

junior career, especially, you know, thanks to his Indy Lights days and all that.

But his IndyCar career has been far from those days because in his four seasons with Dale Coyne, AJ Foyt, and Henkos Hollinger Racing, he's had a best championship finish of 20th.

So it's definitely surprising.

And other names have been thrown into the mix as well as suggestions.

Yes, both of them, yeah.

Then on to Dale Coyne, we have Dennis Hauger, finished P22, best finish of 8th.

That doesn't say good season to me, but I'd say, I guess he came in with a lot of hype and a lot of promise from Indy Next, but maybe he just needs a little bit of time.

Yeah.

is to get people who are out of state to move to your community so they can keep a really good, strong workforce.

We've heard Dale Coyne talk about it.

We've heard Tim Sheehy talk about it, about attracting talent.

And this is something that they are giving a shot in Fond du Lac County.