Welcome to the Marshall Proop Podcast and your week in IndyCar, listener Q&A.

We are, what, a little over a week away from good old Christmas and fun.

And I have gotten to the middle of December, y'all, and realize that I have not really taken many days off this year.

So I am going to do just that for the last week and a half-ish of December, whatever it is,

it extends into the first week of January.

So we'll probably still do a podcast early next week, but just looking forward, I'm sure, like many of y'all, to not having work and stuff to dominate days and just every facet of life.

So I am smiling a plenty here.

Hey, big thanks to y'all for the many questions

y'all sent in, all organized by our dear pal Jerry Suddh. Jerry tells us got about 20

questions and about 1,200 words worth of questions. He very kindly groups the questions here.

So why don't I read them off?

Because I realize that I usually like to just charge in, but maybe y'all want to hear

more of what's coming so you know what to look for.

Group one, Jerry has Sonoco questions related to the revealing of Kiffin Simpson's entry for

2026. Scott Dixon to Dale Coyne, of course. FIA questions. Will Penske have 60th

anniversary liveries? Our IndyCar Charter is permanent. Will Polo Domin dominate in twenty twenty six who might rise to the

challenge why can owner sue drivers and be able to fire them at will uh ed carpenter racing

predictions for twenty 26 uh is indy car cursed to be a spec series that's an interesting one

group two which i hope we'll get into. How does IndyCar

grow the sport further? And then have you considered IndyCar history episodes? And group three,

who do you want to see in officiating positions? Have you seen any drawings of the new car? When will we

see images of the new car? And then apparently someone said thanks. So, uh, greatly appreciate

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