Music City Delivers!
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The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix was the first oval season finale since 2014. Did it deliver? Let's discuss!
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Im glad i made the effort to atrend the race in person. Both the Indycar and Indy NXT rwces were worth it.
thanks for supporting IndyCar. I wish I could make it to more races.
@mrbloodmuffins nice. I am always at the Iowa races and I was at both Milwaukee races. Milwaukee is my "home" track. Hadn't missed a race since my first one in 84 when I was 9, so wasn't going to miss their return and will always be at that one as well as long as they are.
Nashville is too far, wish I would have been there especially with Herta winning who is my favorite driver currently.
Same
Yes !
I had a blast there. I hope they keep this race on the oval
Same
This is where the sport should’ve been back in 2021. Better late than never tho.
This was such an awesome race and way to end this tough season.
Thank you so much for your coverage, David!
This was, in my opinion, one of if not the best midsized oval races I've seen in many, many years. I was completely involved the entire race. I loved it. Very fun to watch. And thank you for your excellent coverage.
That was a great 3 oval races to finish off the year. Shows why they need to be on the schedule evenly with road/street courses and what makes Indycar unique from F1.
Ovals can be a bust sometimes but when the package is right, it's the best racing Indycar produces as shown in the past few races.
Great to see Herta get the win.
It was great to meet you this weekend, David!! As a NASCAR fan I grew to appreciate IndyCar this weekend, as it’s so much more than the 500. The access you get to the drivers and the cars is incredible. I’ve been coming to NSS for years and I’m so happy that this race was a success. I renewed my tickets and will be back next year!!
You have done a great job David this entire year. Quite the progression you have made throughout the years. Be proud of yourself.
Was a Great Season David. You continue to do a hellova job. You are gonna be the Next Robin Miller, and you shouldn't take that lightly. Your relationship with the Speedway, the drivers, the way you relate to the fans....You do a heck of a lot for the Sport and IndyCar needs it. Keep it up brother!!!
I had a lot of fear it wouldn’t draw a crowd, but boy did it! Massive shoutout to Scott & the Big Machine/GP folks who made this happen. They are a great partner for the series. Happy to support the race for the fourth year, and optimistic for the event’s future!
It was a fun year for sure. Alex was the nicest driver to us in May with our bronze badge. He joked around with us in pitlane and pretended to steal my sharpie marker lol. Will Power was so cool too.I mostly go to dirt races in Indiana and Ohio but I will say the nicest drivers ive met ever are the Indy car drivers. That alone makes me a fan. Thanks for another season of coverage David. The season is just not long enough. My last thought is Daly better get a full time ride for 2025. He made us Hoosier state natives proud with his awesome fill in role for Juncos Hollinger.
How are the USAC drivers?
Plese don't tell me Logan Seavey is n A hole. Lol
I think ovals deserve a place in the IndyCar schedule though I also think street and road courses also deserve to have slots on the schedule also
My ideal calender is probably 20 races. 5 at each road, street, long oval, and short oval.
@timothyheimbach3260 I would agree. 20 or 21 races. 5 of each or 7 but I think they're shooting for an even number like 20. The races on the schedule now have contracts done to race there for a few more years so they can add 3 or 4 more races. It just has to be the right market and needs strong promoting. Iowa is hopefully gonna be good racing again next year unless NAP-CAR decides to screw with it more than they already did.
No joke, I always enjoy when you dabble in F1 and NASCAR from time to time. A few videos here and there would be totally fine.
It was a great race and a great facility
IndyCar needs to race on more oval tracks. The racing was great at Milwaukee and Nashville. I hope IndyCar sees this and make an effort to put more races on oval tracks.
Loved seeing the return of Nashville Superspeedway. Unfortunately the championship battle kind of ended before it even started but still had a good race. Great to see Herta finally win an oval.
My wife and I drove to the track from Cleveland Ohio. Well over 8hr drive and worth every bit! Outstanding weekend! We bought our Sunday tickets as soon as they were available and bought our Saturday tickets walking up to the window. We couldn't be happier! Tennessee people are nice! Racetrack awesome! And thanks to newgarderen for sticking around to sign autographs after all the other drivers split. Well done indycar!!! We had a blast!!!!
We saw Newgarden do that. He signed my back to back commemorative plaque. His Penske handler was telling he had to leave and he said well I’ll just have to be late tell them it’s my fault! Good on him. He is awesome!
We’re living vicariously through you, David! So cool to see you getting to cover the series and know all the drivers on a first name basis! On to next season!
IndyCar needs you! First Class!
Scott Borchetta and Big Machine need to take over all Indy Car marketing
Cant wait for next year, looks like the field is getting deeper with talent and a new team! Cant wait
We had a blast yesterday! It was thrilling. I went to all of the IndyCar (IRL back then I guess) at NSS and this was my first IndyCar race to attend since 2008. It was my wife’s first race of any kind, and she thoroughly enjoyed it. Fandom was great! My only 2 suggestions, not complaints per se; do the driver intros in front of the grandstand and have some sort of portable winner’s circle closer to the stands. I couldn’t see them at all and the TV screens were too small.
Now, I heard some true whining that the crowd size was not all that great and the weather forecast kept people from coming. I disagree. It might not have been full but from where I sat, Section 146, row 46, seats 10-13 (right on the start/finish line) the crowd looked great and everyone was jacked up! If the forecast kept people away, (which I doubt that it did) then they didn’t do their homework and keep up with the weather. The forecast was great. I watched it all week and wasn’t worried about rain at all. Anyway, there’s a whole year now to promote for next year.
BTW, I didn’t hear anything about excessive tire degradation on the concrete and it looked like there was a pretty good second groove. I watched a recording of the race this morning and I didn’t hear anything about tire deg like in the early days of racing there.
David, tell your buddy he, et al, put on a fantastic show. Keep IndyCar and the fans coming back for a lot more years to NSS. Don’t let Mark Miles touch the planning.
Thanks David! 10:51 10:51
Great season for indycar and a great season of coverage by the David Land crew. Don't stop!
I genuinely considered flying to Nashville for the race, and it would've required 15 hours+ of travel time...I couldn't make it happen, but your promotion definitely helped the race when I didn't know what to expect. I have to admit I was a bit choked up during the NBC crew's farewell.
Your reporting has been my go-to this year. Can't wait till next year.
Thanks.
Every race in Portland Oregon since 1984-2007 2018- 2024
Thank you, David, for another outstanding season of coverage this year. Regarding your offseason plans, I did want to mention that I did like the "Hot Takes" videos that you did in offering your perspective on suggestions that the fans have regarding how IndyCar (or F1, IMSA, or NASCAR) can address some of their problems and be run better. I enjoyed those videos a lot and thought that they were educational, informative, and at times, pretty humorous as well. Thanks again for all that you do to help us fans get a better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes in IndyCar and what our favorite drivers face every time they suit up. You've enhanced our experience a lot. :)
Great race.
This season has flown by.
Sunday-only attendee here (along with my wife and 2 kids), and the races were absolutely lit from the grandstands. I'm throwing the Indy NXT race in there, too. Even though Foster led all the laps, the lapped traffic played a role, and Yuven had a decent shot at him at the end after the late restart. IndyCars on ovals is a show, people. If you have the means and the time, and I know not everyone does, but if you do, get to an IndyCar oval. You won't regret it.
A Divine intervention of horrendous proportion for Will Power, congratulations Alex Palau, you kept it out of Penske's hands. Appreciated.
I agree that we need a great mix of ovals in this series but I really love both road & street courses, we need that mix and that is what makes IndyCar great and it makes for the best most diverse drivers in the world, I hope that Zak Browns ideas are seriously considered and implemented, this is the best series in the world and deserves to be treated as such
I’ve watched every IndyCar race, I don’t know how many years and I thought this was a good race
I hope this race stays on the schedule as the last race. This is a better race than the street race. Indycar and all the promotors need to work together to really promote the series. Some more coverage of the NXT series and potential drivers in Indycar would also be nice . Hopefully a new car and engine package is in the works and that will be announced next year. Thanks to all the great coverage you give Indycar, you do a great job and bring something special to the table of motorsports.
For your 6 months of off time, I hope you cover the BC 39 and the Chilibowl. Go see some dirt track open wheel racing!
I was glad to be there in person! It was a great race.
Farewell to NBC. Thank you for your great coverage over the years and Diffey (until you sent him to NASCAR). Hope FOX presents the sport well and takes it seriously! Great to have no more Peacock exclusive races and all big FOX network races though.
I came all the way from California to support my IndyCar passion and I was not disappointed!! You convinced me David to come out with your excitement ever since it was announced of the venue change. Thank you for your content and passion!!👊🏼 See you next year! 🤍❤️🖤🏎️🏁✌🏻
Great venue for the season finale. I have nothing against having a few street courses per year, but not the season finale. No street course could produce a show like this.
100%
All in all pretty nice season. Some great races, good drama, and a nice battle to the end.
It's an absolute tragedy that the Indycar season ends so soon. Is the overlap between Racing fans and American Football fans really that great, that it constitutes an off-season this long? I tend to doubt that.
Football has an extreme casual fanbase and motor sports is extremely niche
I think the bigger issue is that there were some big holes in the schedule between St. Pete and the Olympic break. You could sandwich 2 more races on the schedule easily. The NFL is always going to be the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
For the networks it is
Realistically IndyCar can't compete with football. Nascar is big enough that it can, and maybe someday IndyCar will be able to again.
@@bartsullivan4866 yep, gotta fill the gaps. Looking into a race in Mexico, going back to Texas and a spring date at Richmond would be perfect.
I had the race on and a friend who isn’t into oval racing at all, even he was like “damn this is good”, especially during the end with Herta and O’Ward
This should be the case for MORE ovals and LESS street races.
18 stages with 6 races on each type of track, oval, street courses, road courses, it's the magic number!
Absolutely. We don't need a Dallas street race especially when IndyCar races so well on an oval in nearby Fort Worth.
I completely agree ovals are the most fun, but Indycar is beholden to their sponsors and manufacturers and I think the reality right now is a street race is an easier sell to their people who put the dollars up. Nashville was brought back to be a street race and I think it's an easier sell to a race sponsor if you're presenting a race with "iconic big city backdrops" the racing product seems to be secondary.
Nahh. More road courses.
@@naparacingfan9275 F1 proved 40 years ago that a Dallas street race (especially one in the summer) is a bad idea.
I’m a fan of the Indy 500. I am completely casual otherwise. I watched this race after you hyping it up and I am now going to watch more races. So as a finale it is a good one in my book.
David, you did a fantastic job this year thank you!
David, you need to push your way into the Broadcast booth. Pato (& other drivers you have a great relationship with) should be beating the drum!
I saw you for like five seconds! I was the guy with the Buick wagon. Didn't want to bug you when you were moving the car.
It was great! I'm actually surprised at the response to the driver intro change, but I shouldn't be, it was a cool idea. The crowd surprised me even after Milwaukee, but Borchetta does know his marketing. Only complaint was similar to Milwaukee - can't bring food in and nnnnot a lot of explicitly gluten free stuff.
I flew right from Nashville to Vegas for work and everyone was telling me how big the Mexican Independence Day celebrations were here. Man, imagine if Pato had won.
A great track for Indy car..looked like a good crowd 😊
I was there on Sunday! It was a great event and a good race with lots of divebombs and chops into turns 1 and 3. Still very good. The crowd was also very good; I didn't know Titans were playing at home at the same time!
Great content this year, David! Can’t wait for next year!
There should be more on-track activities besides Indy NXT, Vintage Indy and INDYCAR series next year. Either include the road course to bring back the stadium trucks and Trans-Am or bring like ARCA series to be another companion series for the IndyCar finale next year. I don’t care about the freaking music concerts in a IndyCar race. Please bring more on the track activities for the INDYCAR finale, please.
@@ariansmovies I agree, there was a huge gap between the races where we literally just sat under the grandstand and waited for almost an hour. We'd done the whole fan zone on Saturday and even went through it again on Sunday. There was so much more last year. Which is a shame since both races were phenomenal.
I was there for my first Indycar race! Had a great time!
Mr Land, (sadly) I’m old enough to be your dad (at least), but I LOVE INDYCAR and YOU make the best content & coverage. Saw my first 500 in 1975 (Lone Star J.R.!) and numerous races in Long Beach, Nazareth, Detroit, Richmond, Cleveland have made me the fan I am. IndyCar Mgt needs to get its $h!t together - the teams, drivers, and fans are doing their part - time for some BOLD LEADERSHIP.
Great race, great season and fantastic race/drama coverage, thanks David, P.S. keep us up to date on the silly off season lol
Im hoping Fox hires Kevin Lee for the race broadcast.
Great job this year, Dave. Love the work you do to promote the sport.
Well done David. Your journalism has been great and thrilled to be a DL500 member. Fantastic to see the series end on a high note to hopefully carry some momentum into 2025. Let's keep our fingers crossed during the off season there will be some exciting announcements about a new car and also the media folks maintain fan engaged.
Hi David, well done for the coverage of the Indycar, I have been following you regularly for several years and you are doing an excellent job!! Please continue with the updates during the off-season.
I think it would be fun to see more IMSA content, as well as perhaps some SRO or WEC if you’re into that! Otherwise, fishing is a pretty good plan haha
It was a great event, for sure. I renewed my ticket for next year's race. Good to meet you even if in passing
Time to work on that new David Land News logo, lol! Thank you for another season of great coverage.
I’m hoping Indycar realizes the oval racing is so much better than that silly downtown road course. If they have the race at the speedway again next year, I pan on scheduling a vacation there!
I thought the same. I went to Milwaukee this year and had a blast. If they keep Nashville on the calendar I might go next year. It might be a tossup because Gateway looks fun too.
The race might have been better, but the venue was not. There was so much more to do downtown. More support races, the paddock was more accessible, the fan zone was probably twice as large. The oval is not going to sell as well to casual fans.
Insightful and enjoyable commentary all season. Nice job David. And was at the race - great weekend great race
Thanks for your coverage this season Dave, it was great 💪🏼
Great season, great sendoff by NBC, and great coverage this year, DL! The future feels as bright as it has in decades.
Thanks David! My friends and I came and had a great weekend! Appreciated the coupon code too.
Hey David, enjoyed all your commentary on your channel this year. Thank you
Thanks for another season of great coverage. Two questions, will you be covering silly season the coming months and will you go to IMSA at Indianapolis and Road America?
Thanks Dave for another great year of Indycar reporting. The competitiveness of this race was a surprise to me and am looking forward to going next year.
To help fill in the dead spot of Indycar video news between now and St . Pete maybe you could do some driver/ team interviews to keep us viewers updated.
Looking forward to 2025!
Thank you very much David, for another season of great coverage and reports on this fantastic sport that we all highly enjoy. Your lifelong passion for IndyCar always shines through in your videos. Yes, it will be a terribly long seeming offseason, probably because it really is. Hopefully, we'll see you every now and then over the cold and snowy months, with tidbits and all the news that fits. Keep doing what you are doing, because you are definitely doing it correctly!
David! I've really enjoyed riding along with you this season. I've been following since day one. Nice you and Alex shed your "rookie stripes" that same year.
Best wishes on the off season, if there is one. Lots of news to report headed to St. Pete.
Thank you for your superb coverage this season, David. Your content has become a component of my indycar watching and you continue to improve my understanding and enjoyment of the series. I very much appreciate that.
Godspeed.
So near yet so far for Pato, and not for the first time in 2024!
The final standings with the old CART points system:
Points: 20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for the top 12, 1 point for pole position, 1 point for leading the most laps.
Notes:
1) I have also added points for Indy 500 qualifying: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for the top 6.
2) I haven't penalised Will Power any points for the St Petersburg scandal as I wasn't sure how many points he would've been penalised if this system was still in use today. Though it is worth noting that if I did penalise him 10 points as in real life it wouldn't affect his championship position.
1st Álex Palou 189
2nd Scott McLaughlin 170
3rd Colton Herta 169
4th Will Power 159
5th Scott Dixon 141
6th Patricio O'Ward 133
7th Josef Newgarden 124
8th Kyle Kirkwood 102
9th Alexander Rossi 83
10th Santino Ferrucci 76
11th Marcus Ericsson 65
12th Marcus Armstrong 63
13th Felix Rosenqvist 47
14th Linus Lundqvist 44
15th Christian Lundgaard 43
16th Rinus van Kalmthout 40
17th Romain Grosjean 36
18th Graham Rahal 21
19th Conor Daly 20
20th David Malukas 13
21st Nolan Siegel 8
22nd Christian Rasmussen 7
23rd Théo Pourchaire 5
24th Sting Ray Robb 4
25th Callum Ilott 4
26th Kyle Larson 2
27th Kyffin Simpson 1
28th Agustín Canapino 1
29th Pietro Fittipaldi 0
30th Jack Harvey 0
31st Toby Sowery 0
32nd Takuma Sato 0
33rd Katherine Legge 0
34th Tom Blomqvist 0
35th Ed Carpenter 0
36th Tristan Vautier 0
37th Hélio Castroneves 0
38th Jüri Vips 0
39th Colin Braun 0
40th Luca Ghiotto 0
41st Hunter McElrea 0
42nd Marco Andretti 0
43rd Ryan Hunter-Reay 0
Thanks for doing the work to show this. I find it very interesting.
A spectacular recap for a spectacular race ! Well done David 👍
Thanks for a great season David. Will probably be the last one unless IndyCar/fox finds a home on streaming. Wish you the best of luck
Best season Finale in a while. This a step in the right direction to bring more ovals back to the sport!
With how boring the racing was this season, this a breath of fresh air holy cow!
Great coverage for the whole Indy season from David Land News!!! Take some time for yourself David and go fishing!
I was there from Cali, on my way home it was fun!!!🚀
This race was pretty good. It felt like Texas 2022 where the high line was there, but they were too scared to use it for most of the race. Next year will be even better!
I think the look at the cars this weekend gave me the vibes of the Aerokit until 2011. It ended up racing kind of like that, which was even better. Great race to end the season. Also, gonna miss NBC
Indycar needs to branch out of the Midwest more. Something like 10 of 18 races there. The Southeast in particular only gets St Pete, Nashville, and Birmingham. What about Charlotte or Road Atlanta? Both have large motorsports communities and good weather. And not everyone down here is a NASCAR fan.
Last, the season needs to be extended. 6 months gap is too much.
They also need to go to the West Coast more as well. I would love to see Vancouver, Sonoma & Phoenix all return to the schedule since all 3 tracks were pretty popular when they were on the schedule.
Can you imagine if it was Herta and Newgarden battling for the win. Two Nashville boys fighting up front wouldve sent the crowd wild
Hell of a race. Not just the pass for the win, but great throughout.
I think I'm in the minority here, but I'll definitely miss peacock. For someone who is often busy on sundays, It's so nice to be able to find a commercial free version of the race right on a streaming platform, without having to use dvr or needing cable subscription. I hope fox can do something similar.
As far as what to do in the off-season, are you not covering IMSA anymore, David?
NBC gave us so much great racing over the years, the only disappointment was that they clearly cheaped out on coverage at the end. My local NBC station joined the race 60 laps in, after women's golf was finished. I'm not sure if that was a national thing or not, but I had to watch on Peacock.
I can't wait for next season. Been watching the series here in Australia and loving it
Thanks for your great work, David
Thanks for coming to my last race lol
Thank you, David ❤️
This was my first ever full season of viewing as a fan. (Watched some of past years but not thoroughly)
Sad to see the season end, I think it's honestly replaced Nascar as my favorite sport. Also, being on peacock made it nice and easy to watch so, bummed that's ending as well.
Still have a lot to learn about it but damn this series is incredible. Hope they find a venue to race at in the northeast soon! Congrats Palou and Herta
As a hockey fan in addition to Indycar, I felt the same sadness yesterday about NBC ending their partnership with Indycar that I did when NBC & the NHL ended their partnership back in 2021. I agree with David that Fox needs to bring the same energy to Indycar that they do for NASCAR. However having said this, I also really hope that Fox does not use the NASCAR on Fox booth (though it would be cool to see Mike Joy call an Indy 500) of any of their NASCAR talent for their Indycar coverage as a way to save money. Hopefully Fox can convince Bob Varsha to come back to the series.
Go fishing for a while. And when you come back, dust off your resume, and get it to Fox sports. You'd make a fantastic addition to the crew there. You did a bang up job this year! Whatever you do, I'll be following you!
Hopefully the Nashville Speedway will be back on the 2025 Indycar schedule! I couldn't agree more, Indycar needs more ovals!
Great headline love watching your stuff. Sucks I gota wait 5 months for the start of a new season!!!
INDYCAR should run 20 races a year
Honestly, I'm hoping this race never goes back to the city streets, and I'm someone who loves street course racing.
Ugh not the off season! I’d totally watch iRaving streams if you did them, cool if a real driver got on Twitch like Lando Norris does too
not gonna lie, the ovals effing delivered this year.
They should add more ovals and actual road coarses like watkins glenn or road atlanta maybe. And richmond or phoenix could be cool. Also I think new Hampshire is the one with the almost flat corners which could lead to some cool racing maybe
Worst infield “grass” I’ve seen at a major racing event. Guessing a landscaper co wasn’t in the speedway’s budget.
While you were staring at the grass, there was a hell of a race going on. Too bad you missed it.
@@keeleymalone8098Wow so smart this AM. It was a great race and something to build on for the future.
Great covergae as usual. Any chance we get some IMSA coverage from you this weekend?
It was a really great race on TV as well. I was rooting for Kirkwood and was surprised that Josef fell way off since he usually just kills everyone on ovals. Power just bad luck seems par for the course for him and opposite for Dixon when it comes to Championships. Palou just solid he's just damn good wouldn't be surprised when he gets his 1st oval win its coming I am sure. I think the series is at its best when O ward and Herta can challenge Penske and Gnassi drivers. I was at Milwaukee and Portland and both races were well attended good to see crowds late in the season.
You are more important for that sport, then you think.
I'm exciting for your covering of the 2025 season and all videos on the way until the start in st. pete
Indy should really try to get Scott into their fold to manage promotion.
Would you extend the race length to 300 miles? Yesterday's race was 275 miles
"Hard to believe it's gone by so quickly" that's what happens when the season is only six months long.😁