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I won’t drag this out, and I’ll get straight to the point. Change is bad, but there are about to be some major changes here at Oilpressure.com. Many of you probably remember that in August of 2023, I wrote an article that incurred the wrath of IndyCar – well, one person in particular with IndyCar who will remain nameless.

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For the past several years, there has been a dwindling amount of options for things to do at IMS over the Indianapolis Race Weekend. Less than a decade ago, Friday morning of Race Weekend kicked off a three-day festival of speed that culminated with the Annual Running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.

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At this time of year, it’s sometimes hard to come up with a relevant topic. Sometimes I go rogue and discuss something that has nothing to do with IndyCar. Other times, I’ll usually scour the Racer.com Mailbag. Generally, I’ll see something in there that will either make me smile or bristle and the words start flowing into the keyboard. Me bristling was the case for today’s post.

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This past Friday, we got word that a legend is stepping down. Tim Cindric, President of Team Penske will step aside from his day-to-day duties of basically running Team Penske after 25 years. Cindric wasn’t just heading up the three-car IndyCar team – he was also in charge of the NASCAR program, and the sports car program. If there was anything in the Penske organization that had to do with any of their racing teams – Cindric was in charge.

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It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when teenagers held parties, where they sat around and played games. Those days even pre-date me. The parties I attended in high school in the mid-70s, usually consisted of a keg of beer iced down in a bathtub that was located in a classmate’s home, whose parents happened to be out of town for the weekend. Activities were limited to loud music, and consuming mass quantities of the aforementioned draught (now shortened to draft) beer. The only games we played consisted of the pursuit of members of the opposite sex. If successful, led to a whole new list of potential activities.

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I write this at the risk of getting into a discussion I’d like to avoid. But with the recent and unexplained drop in reader comments in the comment section below, I would welcome any discussion at this point. It’s odd, traffic hasn’t really dropped off here but the comments have. Maybe I’m picking boring topics lately.

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If you’ve been paying attention to the IndyCar offseason shenanigans, you know that one of the best IndyCar engineers in the paddock is on the move again. Eight days after an impressive launch for IndyCar newcomer PREMA, Michael Cannon announced he had split with the new team.

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