r/INDYCAR • u/Fit_Technician832 • 21h ago
Article Indycar's Best Passer 2024
https://racer.com/2024/12/25/who-was-indycars-best-overtaker-in-2024/41
u/Fit_Technician832 21h ago
To no real surprise, Santino Ferrucci by the numbers had the most overtakes (aka passes) in the series for 2024. Combination of him usually being a poor qualifier which gives him ample opportunity to make passes and him having huge stones on race day. Even if you hate Santino off the track, I think most by now recognize that he's electric on race day.
2nd on the season in passes is Colton Herta. This is also not that much of a surprise as much like Santino he's electric on the track and very brave making some stunning passes. He generally qualifies well though
3rd being Veekay was a surprise
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u/AverageIndycarFan Will Power 21h ago
To nobody's surprise, Santino Ferrucci! I don't think anybody likes him but what he was able to do in that dump truck was absolutely mind blowing. I won't be surprised if he lands somewhere a lot better once the contract's up
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u/korko 20h ago
TIL Penske cars are “dump trucks”.
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u/Dachuiri Scott McLaughlin 20h ago
You and I both know that car is still very much a Foyt car.
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u/Mikemat5150 Kyle Kirkwood 20h ago
Except for the Penske dampers, engineers, and being part of Penske engineering debriefs.
I think we can all agree that it’s not the Foyt of old either.
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u/Fit_Technician832 20h ago
Lol yep. I think we all should be agreeing that it's clearly not the Foyt cars of old but certainly not a true Penske either.
Somewhere in the middle
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u/Ed_Severson Michael Armbrester, Engineer @ AJ Foyt Racing 19h ago
Penske dampers a generation behind what the Penske cars run, AJ Foyt engineers supplemented by one Penske race engineer, and zero Penske debriefs, but who’s counting?
They’ve helped, but let’s not get carried away here — there are plenty of AJ Foyt Racing employees who deserve credit for the team’s performance in 2024. It’s reductive to think otherwise.
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u/Mikemat5150 Kyle Kirkwood 6h ago
Thank you. I swear Ferucci/Power said they were debriefing together after the Portland pole but you’d know better than I!
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u/adri9428 17h ago
Now that Malukas has allegedly been "recommended" to Foyt by Penske, let's see how the team performs with two well regarded drivers.
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u/Rift_Ripper_ 3h ago
Why dont people like him?
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u/oneofmanyburners Will Power 🖕 2h ago
Saying hateful things about a teammate, texting while in his racecar, wanting to run a maga livery, his attitude towards other drivers
He’s been better recently and I don’t believe in cancelling people, especially at such a young age, but I still find him annoying
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u/trj820 Colton Herta 19h ago
I think that somebody should separate out oval passes from road course passes, how much more difficult the latter are. It'd be interesting to see breakdowns of each.