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[jonpollak]

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[amerikalei]

“I thought he understeered up into me until I saw the replay,” Power told RACER. “I called him and said, ‘Man, I actually did squeeze you. I didn’t think I did that. My fault.’”

 

Malukas says there are no hard feelings with Power, who he’ll work with next year at A.J. Foyt Racing through the technical alliance between the Penske and Foyt teams.

 

“He reached out and it was really funny, sarcastic Will,” Malukas said. “We’re definitely all good. And it was a nice message. He said, ‘I was a d***. I’m sorry.’

 

He also exonerates, sort of, JoNew for going late, "which is his right", and feels the officials just went green later than previously. 

 

https://racer.com/20...wwtr-outbursts/

[ClubmanGT]

The commentators were understandably struggling to keep up with the strategies at that point in the race but the Newgarden spin did not help the Penske driver's strategy whatsoever.  It actually slightly favoured the alternate (but massively inferior) strategy.

 

A spin as soon as Dixon pitted and putting him 2 laps down before he was able to get back onto the lead lap while the Penske cars got a free pitstop definitely benefited the Penskes.

[ANF]

“I thought he understeered up into me until I saw the replay,” Power told RACER. “I called him and said, ‘Man, I actually did squeeze you. I didn’t think I did that. My fault.’”

Malukas says there are no hard feelings with Power, who he’ll work with next year at A.J. Foyt Racing through the technical alliance between the Penske and Foyt teams.

“He reached out and it was really funny, sarcastic Will,” Malukas said. “We’re definitely all good. And it was a nice message. He said, ‘I was a d***. I’m sorry.’

He also exonerates, sort of, JoNew for going late, "which is his right", and feels the officials just went green later than previously.

https://racer.com/20...wwtr-outbursts/

I knew he would do that. Power seems like a good guy.

[Muppetmad]

Good! Once his grid penalty is confirmed for the next race, we'll be all set.

[Ben24]

A spin as soon as Dixon pitted and putting him 2 laps down before he was able to get back onto the lead lap while the Penske cars got a free pitstop definitely benefited the Penskes.

Dixon was already over a lap down before he pitted. There was no way in a million years he was ever getting back on the lead lap with the pace he had from doing that amount of fuel saving. Had the race been green all the way to the end, Dixon would have been at least 3 and half laps down on the Penskes when they made their final stop so would've still been 2 laps down on them after they'd all pitted for the final time (with Dixon still needing save fuel for the last laps whilst the others didn't).

 

The caution actually came at an awkward time for the Penskes because, as we saw with Power, pitting at that stage didn't really help their strategy. And if you compare Dixon to Power, who didn't take a free stop under the caution, you can see that Dixon definitely benefitted against him compared to where he would've been had it stayed green. Lundqvist was actually on the same strategy as Dixon but made it work. He pitted one lap after Dixon, on the lap before the Newgarden spin, but unlike Dixon just managed to avoid going 2 laps down - he was about 20 seconds ahead of Dixon before the pit stops purely because he had been so much faster in the previous stint. So at the end of the day it was really just strangely poor pace from Dixon that was the main problem rather than bad luck with the strategy.

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[ClubmanGT]

 

The caution actually came at an awkward time for the Penskes because, as we saw with Power, pitting at that stage didn't really help their strategy. And if you compare Dixon to Power, who didn't take a free stop under the caution, you can see that Dixon definitely benefitted against him compared to where he would've been had it stayed green. Lundqvist was actually on the same strategy as Dixon but made it work. He pitted one lap after Dixon, on the lap before the Newgarden spin, but unlike Dixon just managed to avoid going 2 laps down - he was about 20 seconds ahead of Dixon before the pit stops purely because he had been so much faster in the previous stint. So at the end of the day it was really just strangely poor pace from Dixon that was the main problem rather than bad luck with the strategy.

 

Not really, he would have been well placed at 1 lap down to benefit from a caution which would have happened with the Penske drivers driving the way they were and get the wave-around .

 

The idea that a caution you cause that basically gets you a free pitstop and loses you almost no stops is somehow something you don't benefit from is weird. If they had to make a green flag stop, Dixon goes back to -1 and would benefit from a wave-around. The caution happening when it did eliminated any chance of that happening, and was a gimme to the team that caused it.