Need to quit gambling. Sato top 3 at 45-1 at Indy. Rahal to win Texas at 12-1. Also had Pag at Long Beach for what it’s worth.

First time Firestone ever brought a tire that actually falls off. Just like the F1 Pirellis. Makes for great racing. This will help Will Power on the ovals. The best drivers will win. My perception of Wilson multiplied by 10. Keep the formula and get him in Ganassi or Penske and we have a title contender.

Servia did not, however, in any way deserve the grilling he got from a shameless 105.3 FM shock jock.

It sounds like the race looked good on television, I can tell you for sure that it was tremendous in person. There was never a boring moment. At any given point in the race there were multiple cars moving up and down in the order, guys who found a perfect balance and were picking off cars left and right to guys who had overused their rubber and were dropping like a rock. Particularly great drives were turned in by Wilson (obviously), Rahal (he was a lap down at one point), Hildebrand, and Pagenaud (got his lap back late and made hay on the final stint).

Perhaps the best thing about this race is that it gave us all some evidence that open-wheel cars can put on a safe, sane, and entertaining race at a high-banked 1.5 mile track. For all the talk about how unsuitable such tracks were for IndyCars, I thought it odd that it was rarely noted that practically every IndyCar race ever held at the 1.5s was contested with essentially the same car. When a different car was finally created, lo and behold, they got a different style of racing. Seems obvious in hindsight…

The crowd was fair, I’d estimate it was 60,000+. Not what IndyCar used to draw there in the early 2000s and not a NASCAR-size crowd at Texas, but there was no shortage of people at the track. The IndyCar crowd for certain tripled the Friday night truck race crowd (which was treated to a pretty good race too).

I really do hope IndyCar and Texas reach an agreement to continue the race. There may be fair and legitimate reasons if it doesn’t, but safety, race quality, and attendance will not be believable scapegoats. Sorry for the length, but I was especially excited after this race.

I think Bernard is correct, this race isn’t promoted anywhere near as much as the NASCAR race, so I can understand why he’d like to promote it. I have this suspicion that it isn’t coming back though.

Was thrilled that Wilson won; I too, think Rahal is a bit of a whiner, but he was a stand up guy at the end–as was Will Power with his block.

Kendall was okay in the booth–until toward the end of the race he mentioned sprinkles on the track. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky for miles, so that makes one wonder…..