00:00Indy circuit in only slightly better conditions than we had in November.
00:04Place your bets, everyone.
00:05Who wins the race and who wins the championship at the end of the year?
00:09Callum Newsham hoping that the answer to both of those questions is his name.
00:13He's on pole. The revs start to rise.
00:15Hyundai versus Honda on the front row of the grid.
00:17As the 2026 season gets underway now, Brad Puchers are very, very early indeed.
00:22And Karl Maudley is collected by Lewis Kent Puchers.
00:26Sorry, Max Waller, beg your pardon.
00:27Collected by Lewis Kent, disaster for the double-raiding champion.
00:32And Lewis Kent is out on the spot.
00:34Call that the curse of the commentator.
00:38Up towards Paddock Hill Bend.
00:41We go up towards Druid's hairpin, rather.
00:43Out of Paddock Hill Bend.
00:45And yes, already they are slowing them down.
00:49This is going to be a full course caution.
00:51Or if not a red flag, well, certainly yellow flags out.
00:55I can see the safety car.
00:57Red.
00:58At Red Flags.
00:59Oh, and what a disappointment for both Max Hall and Lewis Kent.
01:09You just saw Hall just struggling to get going.
01:13Do you know something?
01:14He was slow to get away from the grid onto the rolling lap.
01:19And I just wonder if there was an underlying issue that reared its ugly head again.
01:26Let's have a look back at the audio.
01:28Yeah, keep an eye on the yellow and blue Honda.
01:30Hutcherson caught my eye.
01:31He went early.
01:32And then Max Hall went and then stopped.
01:34And Lewis Kent just gets pinched three wide.
01:36Rod McGovern came storming up the middle of everyone.
01:39And unfortunately, Lewis just had nowhere to go.
01:42I think he'd seen Max Hall's car slowing, but thought that he had somewhere to go.
01:46And that door very quickly closed.
01:48That jumpstart by Brad Hutchinson could just have saved his weekend.
01:55Because if he hadn't have jumped the start, he would have been right where that number 38 came.
02:02And you could see McGovern going at the inside.
02:04You had Hall slowly getting started.
02:07But then three cars and Lewis Kent had nowhere to go.
02:11Just pile driving in the back of Max Hall's car.
02:14Now the cars are coming back to the pit lane.
02:18I haven't seen Max R.
02:21Max Hall's car is stationary on the outside.
02:25Well, number one, there's Lewis Kent.
02:27A-OK.
02:29Looking old.
02:31Somewhat disgruntled.
02:32A shrug of the shoulders.
02:34What could he do?
02:37He's going to have a little remonstration, possibly.
02:41But, oh, well.
02:43All that build-up.
02:45And can't breathe.
02:47We're going to have to do it all again.
02:49I'm absolutely heartbroken for Lewis Kent.
02:51And Max Hall, to be fair.
02:52I was picking him up on the front row.
02:53But you're right, that car just, I don't know whether he's got a clutch issue, maybe.
02:56Because he just, as you said, he went.
02:58And then it just, almost like it wouldn't get out of first gear.
03:00There is the Honda.
03:01The rear end of a Honda, seemingly quite a bit stronger than the front end of a Lincoln Coe.
03:05Because that car's not come out too secondhand.
03:08He's examining the damage now.
03:09Yeah, well, that rear end of a Honda's got half a Lincoln Coe front end.
03:12It's just got into it.
03:14Good point.
03:14Yes, Max Hall trudges away.
03:16But just one of those really unfortunate incidents.
03:18I said that it is difficult to get a car off the line here.
03:21Even on the outside of the front row.
03:24And it's a very narrow circuit as well.
03:26So it's not unheard of for us to have the start line incidents.
03:30So the field then have been brought, the majority of them anyway, down into the pit lane.
03:34I'm going to go to the front row.
03:34I'm going to go to the front row.
03:34I'm going to go to the front row.
03:34I'm going to go to the front row.
03:34Amém.
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