Extended Race Highlights: 2024 The Thermal Club $1 Million Challenge | INDYCAR SERIES

With big bucks on the line, anything can happen.

Find out which driver secured the bag in Sunday's $1 Million Challenge from The Thermal Club.

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[PyroBun_]

Props to whoever runs the Indycar channel that managed to squeeze 30 minutes out of this snoozefest.

[Jinx-igfz]

This race was definitely boring. The 10 minute break was useless. The announcers constantly talking about the money and how the race track is private and money again. It was definitely out of touch with real racing fans. Go to a track where racing can actually be done.

[mthedean]

The worst thing about this event is INDYCAR’s leadership thinking it would be a good idea in the first place. Being that out of touch and so focused on gimmicks doesn’t bode well, given the worrying state of the series.

[lxrj]

Indycar somehow managed to manufacture a more boring race than Nascars Clash at the Coliseum. Would have been more entertaining to just let the drivers play bingo for $500k.

[aescobar]

this was NOT the fix Indycar needed... such a weird idea.

[brettweir]

There were no highlights. Only lowlights. One of the worst and most bizarre things Indycar has ever done. The whole thing reeks of desperation for the series.

[smokescreen]

I'm a diehard Indycar fan, but this was worse than watching paint dry. Basically was a glorified test weekend at a club track. One day perhaps I have enough funds to own a house at the "Coachella" of race tracks.

[Jamhynz]

Why did the winner only get half a million dollars in the one million dollar challenge?!

[sandordomonkos]

3 mins was to long about this race 😂 BRING BACK TEXAS

[QF_Dan]

Please don't bring this event back again

[soundbelch]

C'mon Indy, you've done so much good in the last few years. This wasn't it.

[kuckoo]

Great Circuit. Not a fan of the gimmicky format, though.
Much prefer to just see an honest, full-length race.

[mrchicken]

This event was kinda boring to watch ngl
The first 10 laps if the main event where kinda usless

[johnthefalcon]

Kudos to Peacock for covering the full test session. The series and then network overhyped the race. But I'll take seeing Indycars on the track over not seeing them at all. I'm going back and watching the parts of the open test I didn't see.

[StereoDProductions]

The track is cool and the cars look and sound great on it, but this has to be the strangest event I have ever seen at so many different levels that it just tarnishes what could otherwise be just a good normal race that everyone could enjoy.

[cameronjones]

Poor Romain Grosjean. Can’t catch a break

[shoey]

Thermal Club looks like a great track, shame it gave us a snoozer of a race

[mcqueen]

How stupid is a format that encourages drivers to go as a slow as they can???
And worse is the amount of time the broadcast spent showing and talking about them.

[marian_]

the best race in indycar history...

nobody ever said

[mchristr]

Reminds me of a private golf club putting on an invitational for the bragging rights. Don’t know why I’m complaining as I haven’t been enthusiastic about open wheel racing for at least 20 years.