The Inside Line

Great, insightful pod by people who are deeply embedded in the sport and care about real journalism.

The excitement level is way up there. The safety improvements have saved the sport.

Since being relaunched as “The Inside Line”, I’ve been a bit mixed on this Podcast. I think Nathan is one of the best journalists covering IndyCar, and enjoyed the previous version with Stefan Wilson. I don’t know much about Joey Barnes but the dynamic between the two seems to be turning this into another “What’s Wrong With Indycar” pod. And I find these really tiresome - as a fan can we talk about what’s going happening on track, with the drivers, and the teams? The edition after Thermal was the worst - maybe 30 minutes or more on Joey’s dislike of the race, the circuit, the current formula etc. I felt like we watched a different race. Please change course guys!

Colton Herta, a guy who is bringing new people to the series and then to your pod, starts 2nd and a comedy of errors by the 26 team caused him to end up finishing 16th yet he is not mentioned once in the race review episode. But we talked about Will Power for 40 minutes after he crashed from midfield 2 corners into the race. Whoever is planning out the show format or producing it needs to do 10000% better job. I get that you guys are feeling this out but good lord that was a rough listen. Try and think of your listeners.