Shaun, his co-host Mike, and his other co-host Mike (yeah, that joke never gets old) lead you through our first big open-wheel weekend with IndyCar and the Mazda Road to Indy in St. Petersburg, and Formula 1 in Malaysia. Mr. Shaw reviews the news in rally and previews WRC’s Rally Portugal and looks with excitement to his time this week down in LA with the GRC.
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OpenPaddock.net Podcast: Episode 225 – Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Misc.
- Talk that Formula E could replace F1 in Jersey
- Picket Muscle Milk to skip Laguna Seca and Long Beach
- World Challenge kicks off at St. Petersburg
DRINKS ROLLCALL
IndyCar
- St. Pete Review
- Heurtas confirmed in 2nd Coyne car
- Quali
- Power opens up the season with a win
- No double file restart
- Miscommunication and Goodyear style antics leaves Conway with bad finish
- How about that re-start… is Will a wanker?
- Results
- Ganassi considering Karam for Indy
- IndyCar may return to Brazil in 2015
- Tino Belli named as IndyCar director of aero development
- NBC sports names PT to on-air team
- Next up – Long Beach in 2 weeks
MRTI
- Veach wins indy lights after quali is rained out
Rally
- Craig Breen brings home first win in ERC, and first win for new Peugeot 208T16 R5
- Ogier takes Faffe Rally Sprint
- WRC Rules changes for Power Stages
- WRC Portugal Preview
- Recce re-scheduled due to flooding, teams looking at outfitting cars with outboard boat motors
- Sainz leaves VW to join new Peugeot Dakar Team
- Desert Storm Rally this weekend in Blythe, CA
- Rally America debuts on NBC Sports this weekend with Sno*Drift (Set your DVR!)
- Slight schedule change for last 3 events
- Shaw takes OP on the road to Red Bull Global Rallycross in LA
Formula 1
- Malaysia Review
- Quali
- Where did this Red Bull pace come from?
- Hamilton leaves rest of field in the dust for Merc 1-2
- Vettel squeeze play on the start?
- Sucks to be Mark Webber… errr…. Daniel Ricciardo
- Felipe, Valteri is faster than you… do you understand
- Penalties galore after the race
- Results – Standings
- More on the tempest in a teakettle
- Walker threatens to go to IndyCar and get all the promoters to sue
- Bernie says the engines sound better in person
- Button tells complainers to “go race elsewhere” (looking at you Seb)
- Next up – Bahrain this weekend
