Pagenaud to miss Mid-Ohio qualifying after huge practice crash

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emailBy Mark Glendenning | July 1, 2023 11:38 AM ET

Simon Pagenaud will sit out qualifying for this weekend’s NTT IndyCar Series race at Mid-Ohio following his huge practice crash on Saturday morning.
"Yeah, I took time to do a practice crash, just in case I had to do a real crash during the race."
The one I was practicing was a "series" of barrel rolls. Those are always exciting. There is no way to judge the exact number of barrel rolls until it's over,
and sometimes you end up dead, which is a real bummer.
You also have those spectators holding up the numbered signs like they do at the Olympics.

As you roll and also bounce up and down, while the wheels and anything sticking out is tearing off,
sometimes you tear off something that you will need for the race, itself. That was today's case.

Once the wheels and suspension are missing, it looks a lot cleaner. But with it having no wheels,...sighhhh....
It won't race tomorrow.

The car qualified really far back. It might have done better if it had rolled and bounced in a straight line, but it was going off to the side
slightly and that counted against me. I prefer to land facing the stands, but not IN the stands. That way I can step out of the pile of remains
and walk straight to the fence to sign autographs while the crowd claps and cheers.

I made sure that no one was going to use that POS car real soon.

The 2016 series champion and 2019 Indianapolis 500 winner suffered a suspected brake failure at the end of the back straight,
pitching the No. 60 Meyer Shank Honda into a series of high-velocity barrel-rolls through the gravel before finally coming to rest against the tire barriers.

Saying that there was a "suspected" brake failure proves that liberalspeak is entering every part of our culture.
That is like when a Black Lives Matter supporter seeking to "raise awareness" of what the Liberal whacko's unfair cause of the day is,
machine guns a little old lady 80 times with a midway reload, in front of a camera and 150 witnesses, and the leftist Liberal news guy
calls it an "alleged" or "suspected" shooting ..........and then blames President Trump, Christians, Republicans and white folks in general
and the NRA and says we have to disarm law abiding citizens of the means to protect their families. without infringing on the BLM whackos freedom of speech.

Maybe freedom of speech should extend to calling the media, a bunch of worthless POS's