No one is complaining, but the IndyCar season is quickly approaching – faster than most of us realize. It’s hard to get used to the idea of the season starting in February, but the opening practice for the season-opener at St. Petersburg is two weeks from today. Maybe it’s time to start looking ahead to the season that is now just in front of us.
Archive for February, 2022
Which Driver Will be Feeling More Pressure?
Posted in IndyCar on February 11, 2022 by OilpressureBuzzwords and Trendy Sayings to Avoid
Posted in IndyCar on February 9, 2022 by Oilpressure
Once a year or so in the IndyCar offseason, I will take a step back from my usual cheery disposition, put on my curmudgeon hat and drift away from discussing IndyCar racing – for a day, anyway – to discuss how much I loathe the trendy sayings that have invaded our everyday lives. Being the increasingly crusty old goat that I am, I don’t take kindly to the latest trends in our everyday language. I tend to be fairly plainspoken, but we are being constantly bombarded with wordy and unnecessary pretentious sayings.
Racing as a Profession, and Not a Hobby
Posted in IndyCar on February 7, 2022 by Oilpressure
Since the end of last season, it has long been suspected that Max Chilton and/or Carlin would not return to the NTT IndyCar Series for 2022. Within a day or so of each other, we got confirmation of the plans for both parties for 2022 – and they do not include each other.
A Bad Way to Start the Weekend
Posted in IndyCar on February 4, 2022 by Oilpressure
Not that anyone really cares, but three years ago, this site started a joint-venture with another IndyCar site, Field of 33, which is run by my good friend Paul Dalbey. We called it Two Sites Unite. While it doesn’t have quite the humor that the old video series from this site, One Take Only with my longtime friend John McLallen had – there is a lot more meat and hard-core racing discussed on Two Sites Unite. There is also a lot more time involved. We get to talking and can’t shut up. We dusted off our video cameras a couple of nights ago and recorded another episode.
Drawing Some Obscure Parallels
Posted in IndyCar on February 2, 2022 by Oilpressure
I watched both football games on Sunday, even though I’m still smarting over how the Titans absolutely threw away their chance to host the AFC Championship. I now know who I will be rooting for in the Super Bowl – the Rams. The week between the Titans and the Chiefs games, the Bengals fans and players did nothing but talk trash about the Titans. The players said that the Titans were scared of them even before kickoff. I guess that would explain how the Titans sacked Joe Burrow nine times, because they were so scared. Titans QB Ryan Tannehill? He may have been scared, based on how he played. But Bengal fans were so obnoxious that following week, I decided to pull for whoever they played for the remainder of the playoffs.
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