Everything You Need To Know About The McLaren IndyCar Driver Drama! 

So much quality!!! Let’s make this guy bigger than David “I just want to be friends with drivers” Land.

Absolute QUALITY content. This channel is the best Indy Car channel on RU-vid hands down. I’ve gotten lost in the sauce watching these videos one day and watched like 15 in a row lol

Dude. This was so well put together. So much information i never knew. I dont understand how you channel is not massive!!! More videos like this please :)

No serously. This is the best work you have done. Fox Sports hire this man!!!!!!!

Man i thought the first few years was messy when you explained it then you got into the recent stuff. the palou situation really sparked much of this great video, i was overwhelmed with the chaos of mclaren but i enjoyed listening

Dude, this is hands down the best coverage of this whole mess on any platform. Well done.

Love the Indycar content keep it up!

I know this whole story as a Mclaren fan but im laughing so hard watching this video, well done and glad to see you back on youtube.

Signing Piastri was the death knell for McLaren's attempted grab of Palou, really don't know what Zak expected when he did that because Palou certainly wasn't signing McL because he thought the IndyCar team was any good. They deserve what the got though, dangling F1 over drivers' heads with no intention of actually making the offer is real scummy

Funny I asked Rossi where will he go at the autograph session in Toronto and said I hope you can find a team soon

The main lesson of all this - never trust a word Zak Brown says.

22:24 I hope you take this as a compliment but I would’ve thought that you were in your early 20’s just based off your voice.

The thing that I found interesting regarding Alex Palou is the RU-vid channel controversy. His channel had over 100k subs but only quad digit views per video. Another RU-vidr did a couple of videos about it.

Yeah, it feels like the only driver that will actually race the full season next year is O'Ward. I think the others will be in and out of the other cars a lot with McLaren never happy with the performances of anyone else, even if they win a race or three... Idk, they have had great drivers other than O'Ward and dumped them for the shiny new thing...

Pretty good summary of Mclaren's IndyCar history and the driver changes

I forgot the magnitude of messiness I counted 19 driver mentions in this video: Full-Time: * Hinchcliffe * O'Ward * Askew * Rosenqvist * Palou * Rossi * Malukas * Pourchaire * Siegel * Lundgaard Not Full Time: * Wickens * Ericsson * Alonso * Servia * Castroneves * Magnussen * Montoya * Kanaan * Ilott

Only just seeing this now, thanks for nothing algorithm! Very well put together video!

Great rundown. It seems like Zak Brown is a bit of a snake when it comes to his driver lineup. Remember he swiped Piastri from Alpine in a bit of an underhanded deal.

prema has a opportunity to get a great 2 driver lineup next season with rossi, veekay, ferucci (and pourchaire?)still available. ngl they can be a really competitive team in their first season

you're back! YAY!

Fantastic video as always

I wish Formula 1 had this much driver lineup controversy

This the best explanation of all this mess, I still don't understand it.

Great job on the video

Great detail on this drama Do you have highlights from the Toronto race?

As a McLaren fan, this whole saga has been completely bonkers and it just keeps on going with no end in sight. Why the IndyCar team has been involved in so many driver lineup controversies over the last few years I have no idea. The Palou case has been a doozy and I guess it would make some sense if Théo Pourchaire was collateral damage. However, some people have also suggested that his Sauber connections might've played a part as well, though personally I think he's very low in the pecking order for getting that particular drive. The Malukas situation was really harsh as well, and if the case played a part in that, well, the story's even madder. Pourchaire's been my favourite driver to watch in F2 over the last few years so I was happy that he got the McLaren drive (albeit the circumstances weren't great what with the Malukas situation), so the decision to drop him stung in that sense (him coming back in Toronto was quite ironic). Never mind that it made virtually no sense. To be fair to Nolan Siegel, he's generally kept out of trouble in the #6 so far and benefitted from any chaos (apart from Toronto), but he does have a lot of pressure on his shoulders thanks to the circumstances surrounding his signing.

Brothers back from the dead, or my yt wont show you or it was just nascar stuff who i was like eh not know, Nope, last videos watched, brothers back from the dead. At least it kinda feels like that

well that was insane 🤣

If Theo doesn't get another chance in either F1 or Indycar, I would feel pretty bad for the guy.

I'd like to say I didn't realize I wasn't subscribed this whole time my apologies

16:42 I’d beg to differ since Malukas never has driven for a top Indycar team like Palou has

McLaren please, just keep the same driver line up for one year

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But isn’t the whole "Pourchaire interview with French media" thing complete bs tho ? I think Theo and Kanaan said it themselves and that was even before Pourchaire was announced as replacement for Rossi if I’m not wrong .

What a mess at Mclaren!

I'm not gonna mince words, that total clownshow at Arrow McLaren made me lose all respect for the entire brand. Not that i had much respect for them left after spygate happened...

Letssssss goooooooooo

Why don't people like david land?