Mental warfare has all started in IndyCar's name fight as season

Mental warfare has all started in IndyCar's name fight as season finale will determine champion SALINAS, Calif. – If the "new Will Power"

shines thru Sunday and the demons of 2010-12 don’t creep in, all of the communicate of group orders, 2d-guessing and the concept of giving the Ice Man

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a better threat in a race with nothing to lose will become moot. If Scott Dixon – or even Marcus Ericsson, presently 39 points adrift –

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supply Chip Ganassi’s third consecutive name and his tenth during the last 15, the questions won’t stop coming till the green flag falls in St. Pete in 2023.

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Though jokingly, Team Penske’s Tim Cindric admitted it himself Wednesday. “If we don’t win on Sunday, I would possibly name you for a process

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Mike,” the Team Penske president stated off-handedly to CGR group supervisor Mike Hull all through a media convention this week.

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The joking and the smiles and the staged pics in hearth suits on the veggies of Pebble Beach have, outwardly at the least, kept things

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cordial leading into IndyCar’s season-finale and a historically-tight 5-character fight separated via forty one points (which include the top-three gapped

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via simply 20) getting into Sunday at Laguna Seca. But inside their minds, the battle has already begun.If you ask Cindric, Dixon hopped out

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of the automobile remaining Sunday after a season-saving run from sixteenth to 3rd and started out a streak of “intellectual video games” with Power,

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