Indy 500 Polesitter Robert Shwartzman Joins + Team Penske Penalized For Failed Tech Inspection
Query & Company
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
(00:00-25:25) – Query & Company opens on a Monday with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison back together in the studio recapping a chaotic qualifying weekend at IMS. They start the show congratulating Robert Shwartzman on starting on pole for the race and dive into the situation that Team Penske has put themselves in with Josef Newgarden and Will Power being forced to start P32 and P33.
(25:25-34:12) – The 2025 Indianapolis 500 pole sitter, Robert Shwartzman, joins Jake Query to take him through his qualifying mindset after an up and down week of practicing. He explains the significance of being the first Israeli to qualify for the Indy 500 and reacts to Josef Newgarden’s prediction that he would be on pole during a visit on IndyCar Radio with Jake Query.
(34:12-43:03) – The first hour of today’s show concludes with Jake and Eddie discussing the Western Conference Finals and who the Minnesota Timberwolves could be facing. Additionally, they size up the last three teams against the Indiana Pacers.
(43:03-1:05:29) – The Dean, Mike Chappell, from CBS4 and FOX59 makes his weekly appearance on the show to discuss the days when they asked him to cover the Indy 500 back when he worked for The Star, weighs in on the penalties handed out to Team Penske, dive into the Colts schedule, and his excitement for going to Berlin for Colts/Falcons.
(1:05:29-1:16:13) – It is officially game week for the Indiana Pacers against the New York Knicks. Jake reveals what his biggest concern is heading into game one for the Pacers. Plus, he asks Eddie to recap the Fever’s dominating game one victory on Saturday over the Chicago Sky.
(1:16:13-1:24:51) – The second hour of the show concludes with Jake sharing what he is embarrassed to admit. Plus, Jake and Eddie provide an update on their baseball beer bet with listener Chad and the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
(1:24:51-1:53:01) – The IndyStar’s Dustin Dopirak joins the program following Indiana Pacers practice to preview game one between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Dustin reacts to Jake’s opinion as to how he believes the Pacers will attack the Knicks, accesses whether the downtime for Indiana is going to hurt them on Wednesday night, and highlights a couple of matchups that he will be monitoring.
(1:53:01-2:00:12) – For the first time this week, Jake and Eddie give away a pair of tickets for a listener to attend this weekend’s Indianapolis 500. Jake overrules Eddie’s idea as to how they should give the tickets away and ultimately decides on Indy 500 trivia.
(2:00:12-2:07:11) – Today’s show closes out with Jake taking a couple of calls from listeners with questions about the Indy 500.
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| 0:36.5 | That's how it sounded yesterday. |
| 0:38.1 | Mark James on the call of Robert Schwartzman, |
| 0:41.8 | becoming the first rookie since Teofobo in 1983, |
| 0:45.9 | to outright win the poll for the Indianapolis 500-mile race, |
| 0:49.8 | the first Israeli-born driver to qualify at Indianapolis. |
| 0:54.1 | His team prima, which has essentially no primary sponsor on the car when he goes out |
| 0:59.8 | for qualifying after a Tuesday where they were limited in practice and late to get out on track, |
| 1:04.8 | and he goes out nonetheless, and Prema becomes the first team to win pole in their debut at Indianapolis |
| 1:12.8 | since 1984 and what might be the biggest Cinderella story upset in qualifying in Indianapolis |
| 1:21.1 | 500-mile race history. |
| 1:22.7 | And on this Monday of Race Week in Indianapolis, that is now, unfortunately, not the biggest storyline going |
| 1:31.9 | into the 500, because in the last hour, the following has taken place. |
| 1:39.4 | Team Penske and two of their three entrants now have been penalized. And Joseph Newgarden, who is just the |
| 1:47.7 | sixth driver to make an attempt to try to win three straight Indianapolis 500s, and Willpower |
| 1:54.6 | will start 32nd and 33rd respectively due to a penalty for an attenuator alteration. |
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