2024 Indy 500 Preview with Marcus Ericsson - Will Penske Dominate?

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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It’s almost time for one of the biggest single races in Motorsport, the 2024 Indy 500, with over 300,000 expected to flock to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday for “The greatest spectacle in racing”. Joining Steph Wentworth on the Autosport Podcast are Motorsport.com’s Global Editor-In-Chief Charles Bradley, and IndyCar Editor Joey Barnes to cover a wide-range of topics, such as asking if Penske are set to dominate the race after their first front row lockout of the race since 1988, with Scott McLaughlin making history with the fastest pole position run ever seen at the speedway (234.220mph), with Will Power and Josef Newgarden sharing that front row. There’s also discussion on McLaren as the potential top contenders to challenge Penske, whether Helio Castroneves can become the 500's first five-time winner, the drama of bump day as Dale Coyne Racing’s Nolan Siegel was bumped from the field in qualifying, and a full interview with Marcus Ericsson to discuss his own dramatic week with a crash and “Bump Day” appearance and ponder what the 2022 winner and 2023 runner-up can do from 32nd on the grid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am Steph Wentworth and you're listening to the Autosport podcast.
0:09.7	It is almost time for the 108th running of the greatest spectacle in racing and one driver is
0:17.2	500 miles away from racing immortality as a winner of the Indianapolis 500. My name is
0:23.7	Steph Wentwith and I am very pleased to be joined by Autosports, US chief editor Charles Bradley and also
0:30.0	motorsport.com's IndyCar editor Joey Barnes. Welcome to you both. How are you both doing?
0:35.6	All good, Steph. Yeah, all good.
0:40.3	Glad to hear it. Well, we've got plenty to talk about.
0:45.5	There's already been quite the drama that set the grid for the race this weekend.
0:48.8	So there's plenty to talk about after that incident-packed qualifying.
0:55.9	But firstly, let's recap the story so far as we saw Team Penske swept the front row of qualifying for the very first time since 1988, with Scott McLaughlin, Willpower and Joseph New Garden
1:02.2	emulating Rick Mears, Danny Sullivan and Al Unser Sr. As then, it is the yellow submarine
1:08.4	on pole and McLaughlin will wear the very cool red fire
1:11.9	seat this weekend to honour Mears, who of course won the 1988 race before his record
1:17.4	equaling fourth victory all the way back in 1991.
1:21.5	And we saw Scott McLaughlin set a new track record for the four-lap average at a blistering 234 miles per hour.
1:31.9	Joey, are you shocked by Penske's speed?
1:34.7	Because where on earth did that come from?
1:36.6	You know, we saw that only willpower made the Fast 12 last year,
1:40.0	and they haven't qualified a car in the top 10 since 2019.
1:43.6	So really, this has kind of come out of nowhere.
1:46.4	Yeah, I mean, I think the, I guess first answer your question, no, it's not that shocking.
1:50.9	If you know who their technical alliances with, and that's AJ Foyt racing,
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