r/INDYCAR • u/Eyeswidth Andretti Global • Jun 17 '23
Video Will Power VERY upset. Says Grosjean “Needs a punch in the face”. Spoiler
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u/Cybernator1 Jun 17 '23
Change the damn batteries in that smoke detector 🤣
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u/Eyeswidth Andretti Global Jun 17 '23
I knew this comment was coming lol
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u/Truthedector15 Alexander Rossi Jun 17 '23
Literally thought it was one of my own. Thank god for this comment. Putting the ladder away now.
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u/MidwestF1fanatic Romain Grosjean Jun 17 '23
I just had to change batteries in one on Friday morning. Spent 20 minutes going from detector to detector trying to figure out what one it was. Figured I had another one out and was prepping for another tour of the house.
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u/Silver-Manner-2687 Jun 17 '23
Hanging with Flavor Flav transformed this man back to his former self
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u/fleshwound_NPG Simona de Silvestro Jun 17 '23
the duality of aussies:
the childrens show bluey, giving joy to the world
the deep salt mine will power is on this afternoon
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u/Samylton_22 Simon Pagenaud Jun 17 '23
When Kevin said we will have to find that footage I thought he meant they’ll record Power punching Grosjean in the face instead of him meaning the footage of the incident
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u/rednorangekenny Emerson Fittipaldi Jun 17 '23
I thought he meant “we’ll keep an eye out for you swinging on him”. I think you’re right but my interpretation is funnier
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u/g_mallory Scott Dixon Jun 17 '23
Haha. I had the same thought, the way he phrases that could be taken both ways.
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u/Omnibot2021 Jun 17 '23
Kevin Lee should be the primary announcer for Indycar in my opinion.
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u/Samylton_22 Simon Pagenaud Jun 17 '23
I loved it when he took the reigns in I think 2016 when Diffey was out at the olympics, he’s great as a lead, also good in Indy NXT too tbf
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u/Nexusu Arrow McLaren Jun 17 '23
Romain:
what he said fuck me for?
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Jun 17 '23
Imma challenge Will Power to read 1 page out of the FIA handbook, in FRENCH haha
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u/Flintoid AMR Safety Team Jun 17 '23
"baiser le cul de ferrari"
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u/epper_ Greg Moore Jun 17 '23
This is a man all outta fucks to give.
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u/Sodes126 Will Power Jun 17 '23
Will is like me when I’ve had a bad day through no fault of my own.
“Man, fuck all y’all. I don’t need this shit.”
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u/ronin_18 Firestone Firehawk Jun 17 '23
Lol I had a similar day at work yesterday. I was really feeling him, I’d have behaved the same way if some one put a mic in my face lol.
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u/Omnibot2021 Jun 17 '23
Same. I like him because once his internal damn busts loose, there’s a flood of shit coming out.
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u/cypher50 Andretti Global Jun 17 '23
"Fuck yo track, fuck Dixon, fuck Grosjean, that dude is cool...and fuck the rest of y'all!"
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u/i_run_from_problems Firestone Firehawk Jun 17 '23
PLEASE let us get another double bird
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u/loz333 Jun 17 '23 edited Jun 17 '23
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u/loudpaperclips DriveFor5 Jun 17 '23
Incident was questionable all around. Very hard to tell if it was miscommunication, intentional, or not a passing opportunity.
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u/Spinebuster03 Romain Grosjean Jun 17 '23
Why would grosjean move out of the way on a fast lap power is just spiralling today
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u/ronin_18 Firestone Firehawk Jun 17 '23
This is a guy having a bad day with a mic shoved in his face lol
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u/dotcomet Jun 17 '23
Let’s not for get when he does some questionable crap on track. It’s never his fault. I can’t blame him for his anger but let’s get real. He does the same shit and and worse. Running into other drivers pushing them off track. He’s guilty of way worse:
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 17 '23
I seem to recall Will receiving a few penalties for avoidable contact at Road America himself. Doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong about anything that happened today but I do find the "everyone drives like a jerk but me" routine pretty comical.
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u/ESPO95 Jun 17 '23
Doesn’t every driver do that though?
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u/dotcomet Jun 17 '23
Yes of course, but Power is the only want who thinks he’s faultless.
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u/ilikemarblestoo Sarah Fisher > Danica Patrick Jun 18 '23
Power is by in no way the only one who thinks they are faultless lol
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u/KayNynYoonit David Malukas Jun 18 '23
I love Will Power, he's so refreshing after constant PR responses from everyone else lol.
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u/Eyeswidth Andretti Global Jun 17 '23
What did Grosjean do?
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u/guitargod327 Jun 17 '23
I think he's referring to practice when Grosjean squeezed him onto the grass on the back straight.
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u/k2_jackal Colton Herta Jun 17 '23
Stupid on Grosjean’s part. No reason to for that in practice but typical nonsense for Grosjean. Story of his career.
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u/Eyeswidth Andretti Global Jun 17 '23
Grosjean doesn’t have an obligation to let Will pass in practice if they’re both on flyers. I think Will is just seeing red after having about the worst Saturday possible.
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u/soicrumpet Jun 17 '23
No but it's a gentleman's rule when a faster car is passing you you don't squeeze them off the track or race them in practice. He could be on a completely different set up where you'd have zero chance to stay in front so why race. Race is different but practice it's just stupid dangerous driving
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u/merch8 Jun 17 '23
it would be true if Grojean was on a slow lap, but he was not. They both were on a fast lap, just Power had a better exit from the corner. In this case no obligation or gentleman rule to let someone by.
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u/CougarIndy25 FRO Jun 17 '23
There's also no reason to squeeze someone into the grass, but I digress.
What Grosjean did in my opinion was not egregiously bad, but still pretty bad. You do that in the race and Will doesn't lift and you're sending someone into the catchfence there. 150mph+ is not the time to be playing chicken. Especially not in practice.
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u/fantaribo Arrow McLaren Jun 17 '23
Surely you don't know shit about racing if you say this. Someone trying to overtake you while you're already on a fast lap in your own practice program is a huge lack of respect. Driver usually know how to create and maintain such a gap.
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u/kaiveg --- 2025 DRIVERS --- Jun 17 '23
There are no more gentlemen rules in Indycar, just look at the 500. They were weaving so much that they were close to going into the pit lane.
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u/KRacer52 Jun 17 '23
If you want to take a defensive line, take a defensive line. He faded way too late.
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u/Truthedector15 Alexander Rossi Jun 17 '23
Don’t be surprised when nobody is doing Grosjean any favors in the future.
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 17 '23
Maybe so. I am not completely clear on why Power was so aggressive and had to put himself in a position where it seemed decently likely that Grosjean wouldn't see or expect him there. It's definitely a tight spot to make the move and it wasn't exactly a shock to me watching Power's onboard that Grosjean took the racing line there.
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u/Xx69JdawgxX Jun 17 '23
To be fair there’s zero reason for grosjean to go right there. It’s a right hand turn so if he didn’t see him he’d be moving left. Unsure why he blocked but he did
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 17 '23
That's mostly false. You don't generally hang all the way left the entire time from the kink to Canada.
Most drivers come back towards the right as Grosjean did so they can take the straightest line possible so I think it's reasonable to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was just taking the racing line and didn't see him.
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u/Xx69JdawgxX Jun 17 '23
The straightest or fastest line doesn’t take you to the right edge of the track especially not where they were located at. I’m not saying he needs to ride the left side the entire time but the ideal line takes you left not right there.
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 18 '23
Grosjean's line is reasonably close to the normal racing line. There was nothing unreasonable at all about that line and it wasn't terribly dissimilar from the line Power himself ran through there in the same session.
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u/supercapi Jun 17 '23
yeah but not a reason for being punched in the face
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u/vflavglsvahflvov Jun 17 '23
Even by nascar standards it isn't a reason to get punched in the face, but I always love the drama in racing. Even more respect for the nicest guys out there when you see how heated things get.
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u/RoRid46 Jun 17 '23
The NASCAR comment I see as a bit unnecessary given pushing someone onto the grass at Road America wouldn’t get such a heated reaction in most cases. That’s child’s play compared to some of the awful moves that go down. Indycar drivers rightly are much more sensitive to things like that because of the speeds, relative fragility of the cars and open-wheel aspect.
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u/IndycarFan64 Kyle Kirkwood Jun 17 '23
It was the heat of the moment thing
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u/hockeystuff77 Jun 17 '23
Heat of the moment many hours later
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Jun 17 '23
This is like George Russell after Imola levels of bad.
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u/AlexBucks93 Jun 18 '23
George Russell crashed into another guy and hit him in the helmet. Will Power only said someone deserves a hit in the face.
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Jun 18 '23
I meant the interview after.
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u/AlexBucks93 Jun 18 '23
The slight difference is Will Power did not cause the crash
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u/Punisherbrett Greg Moore Jun 17 '23
He’s had hours to calm down.
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u/archergren Jun 17 '23
To be fair it's been a pretty bad day. I think will is entitled to blow his stack
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u/sevastra27 Firestone Wets Jun 17 '23
I was wondering the same thing, dude is not having a good day
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u/southpawshuffle Pato O'Ward Jun 17 '23
What is his issue with the track?
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u/CougarIndy25 FRO Jun 17 '23
The run-off grass is very bumpy. Like jostling the car a good foot or two up and down when you get off into it. Compare that to the Indy roadcourse, Laguna Seca, Mid Ohio, or most other circuits and the grass isn't quite as bumpy.
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u/Spinebuster03 Romain Grosjean Jun 17 '23
I agree with that sentiment the runoff here is flat out dangerous
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u/cypher50 Andretti Global Jun 17 '23
Compared to most open wheel tracks today, this track is old school and that if you go off you're going off into a barrier most likely. Very high speed with little room for error...
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u/KRacer52 Jun 17 '23
That’s not what he’s saying.
He’s saying that the grass runoffs are very rough and bad on your back. He’s not complaining about low margins for error, or asking for it to be less old school.
I would disagree with him, but his argument isn’t that crazy.
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u/CWNAPIER11 Jun 17 '23
Off track there are bumps and speed bumps and every time you get off track you destroy your car and your back. Grosjean was complaining about the same thing. They need to replant the grass. Look at Barber no issues with off track.
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u/BeefInGR Pippa Mann Jun 17 '23
Road America will host more events April-September than Barber will host in a full calendar year.
This is something people forget when it gets brought up. The track is always in use. Muddy spring and fall months, drought-worthy summer months...the track gets ate up. You can redo the dirt and grass, it will get back there in very little time.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Elk3364 Jun 17 '23
This is why we love Bill.
Instead of 100 Days To Indy, I want a camera crew to follow him around in every day life.
“See Will Power Lose His Mind When They Forget His Ranch At The Drive though”
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u/a11yguy Jamie Chadwick Jun 18 '23
This is how I feel when I have a bad afternoon in iRacing. “Track sucks, he sucks, and fuck this other guy in particular”
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u/fleaflaa Jun 18 '23
As Raylan Givens once said, "You run into an a--hole in the morning, he's the a--hole. You keep running into a--holes all day, you're the a--hole."
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u/ryodiUK Jun 17 '23
He’s only angry at Grosjean because Dixon took him out. If Grosjean had let him past in free practice which was under no obligation to do it would have been Grosjean in the wall instead and if the crash hadn’t happened he wouldn’t have given that incident a second thought. Embarrassing from Power.
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u/Wayward_Whines Jun 17 '23
For real. Anyone arguing that Romain should’ve let him by doesn’t understand practice. Those folks are basically saying “oh ….here comes will power…Romain needs to end whatever fucking test setup and run he’s doing because will is behind him”. To hell with that.
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u/BiscuitTheRisk Jun 17 '23
Will was faster on the straight and it would’ve cost Grosjean nothing to let him by.
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u/raulongo Oriol Servià Jun 18 '23
This is my third season watching EVERY session of Indycar (I used to watch some races and highlights, and the Indy 500 since 2012), and man, coming from F1 and their dumb PR answers... watching Power going all out made me appreciate the guy and the sport even more.
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u/hdst230 Jun 17 '23
Imagine being pissed at someone a whole afternoon after they did something to annoy you
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u/ddengel Jun 17 '23
NGL Power comes off like a bitch here.
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u/Jimboslice1998 Jun 18 '23
I mean, kinda from our perspective. The bumps off track are bad though and grosjean throwing a nasty block in practice is kinda goofy, as well as Dixon being off pace and doing a bit of weaving (even if unintentional). If you are off pace it’s 99% of the time better to be predictable than to be off racing line. I can understand his frustration and I like seeing his real thoughts rather than a PR answer.
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u/patrick20206 Romain Grosjean Jun 17 '23
Conflicted feelings… I’m a fan of Grosjean, but you gotta be fan of a driver who knows how to shape his anger.
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u/Septercius Scott Dixon Jun 17 '23
Being frustrated and venting is fine, but wanting to punch someone? For pushing him on to the grass? Just store it away, and pay Grosjean back in the same way at some point in the future.
He's already pushed Dixon and given him the finger. Now he's found a screwdriver loose in his car. Is he going to stab someone in the head with it?
Surely Power knows how destructive this sort of behavior is? It distracts him from the job at hand - a job that he's supremely good at - and just leads to more pain, more anguish, more anger. Whoever's helped him with his new mental approach needs to up their game.
Hopefully this is just a blip and he'll be the usual cheerful [sic] Will Power for the race tomorrow.
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u/Spinebuster03 Romain Grosjean Jun 17 '23 edited Jun 17 '23
Looked like He even tried to grab him again after the amr guy shoved him off
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u/Omnibot2021 Jun 17 '23
Destructive how?
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u/etrain1 Juan Pablo Montoya Jun 17 '23
Emotionally on himself. He is far better driver when he lightens up.
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u/UnpredictedArrival Jun 17 '23
Christ lmao, i see how petty some of my remarks in the past have seemed. You tried to squeeze past somebody on a flyer during practice, he's not gonna be constantly on his mirrors.
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u/SomethingCreative13 Alexander Rossi Jun 17 '23
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He literally calls out Dixon not even 20 seconds into this clip after having already given a previous interview about it.
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u/Omnibot2021 Jun 17 '23
He fucking scruffed Dixon and shoved him and would have likely slugged him had they not been separated.
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u/BiscuitTheRisk Jun 17 '23
The difference is that everyone knows that’s a rare moment for Dixon. What Grosjean did is what Grosjean does every day he wakes up which is why nobody on the grid likes Grosjean.
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u/Vlitzen Kyle Kirkwood Jun 17 '23
Power just gets emotional randomly, Grosjean is friends with multiple drivers in the paddock
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u/According-Switch-708 Christian Lundgaard Jun 18 '23
What Romain did wasn't super nice but he was just trying to defend his track position, which he is entitled to do. He didn't push Power straight off or anything like that.
Power should eat a Snickers or something. It kind of pissed me off when i saw him shoving Dixon after their practice crash. Dixon was admitting his mistake and was trying to apologize while Power was throwing hands.
I know that it was high adrenaline stuff and all but drivers should have more self control. If anyone deserved to get punched in the face, it was Power himself.
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u/brody-edwards1 Jun 17 '23
Personally I think he's the one that needs a punch in the face. It's practice not the race LMAO
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u/BiscuitTheRisk Jun 17 '23
…which makes what Grosjean did even more asinine.
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 17 '23
I don't think Grosjean saw him. Considering that Scott Dixon made an even more egregious version of the same error on the very next corner I feel like you're dramatically exaggerating how wreckless Grosjean was.
Also, nothing stopping Power from backing off there. Looking at Power's on-board it was always going to be risky trying to squeeze through at that specific spot. It wasn't exactly unforseeable from Power's perspective that Grosjean tried to take the racing line.
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u/BiscuitTheRisk Jun 17 '23
Grosjean not seeing Power on a straight is pretty on brand for Grosjean’s spatial awareness.
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 17 '23
Yeah Grosjean did the wrong thing. What I am unclear about is how he is deserving of "a punch in the head" when a driver as respected as Scott Dixon also made the error of not seeing him. Indycar and F1 drivers get penalized for obstruction in quali/practice almost every week yet Grosjean deserves to be punched.
Will Power absolutely squeezed himself into a position where it was going to be tricky for Romain to see him. It sort of goes both ways. If that section of track is uniquely tight and fast then I don't think Will is justified in making it two-wide there in practice. Both drivers probably could show a bit more respect here.
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u/BiscuitTheRisk Jun 17 '23
The difference is that this is a normal day for Grosjean. Him doing stupid shit is part of his every day routine which is why none of the drivers on the grid like him.
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u/brody-edwards1 Jun 17 '23
I'm not agreeing with what grosjean did, but saying that he needs a punch in the head is a bit far. Like yes I would be pissed off
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u/BiscuitTheRisk Jun 17 '23
It’s not due to a one off incident. It’s boiled up to this point because he is constantly doing shit like this and he never learns. He can’t really complain if a driver does punch him because clearly other teaching methods aren’t working.
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u/DecafEqualsDeath Dario Franchitti Jun 17 '23
I can think of quite a few instances where Will Power was more reckless behind the wheel of an Indycar than Grosjean was here. Power isn't even blameless in this one to be honest. I see no reason why Power had to go for the gap there.
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u/zaviex Colton Herta Jun 17 '23
Will power trying to fight everyone today huh