Episode #531: 2024 IndyCar Mid-Ohio 200 Review

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It's been a good week for ending cold spells. Lewis Hamilton waited 945 days to win in Formula 1 again. Alex Bowman broke an 80-race dry spell in NASCAR to win in Chicago this past weekend. And over in IndyCar, Pato O'Ward was able to claim his first IndyCar win (while taking a chequered flag to do it), in 716 days, in an intense battle with Alex Palou in Mid-Ohio, with the Mexican winning by just half a second.
Dre and RJ make sense of a calm, yet intense race where the lead battle dominated proceedings. It was also a debut running for IndyCar's hybrid system, using super-capacitor technology to generate an extra 60 horsepower, which when combined with push-to-pass, has the cars over 800 horsepower for 4.5 seconds a charge. But this is antiquated technology by any measure, and it took Scott Dixon out of the running due to his hybrid unit failing before the race even started. Should it be IndyCar's future?
Also, McLaren's had more silly season unseriousness, this time with Christian Lundgaard joining from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing replacing Alexander Rossi in the #7 car. And in shock news, Dre, the biggest Rossi hater... doesn't like the move? Let him explain in another Motorsport101!