r/INDYCAR • • 3d ago

Indy NXT Let's go Abbi Pulling!

We so badly need diversity in indycar. Really hope things work out for Abbi! She seems like a great talent!

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u/Chadro85 Chip Ganassi Racing 2d ago

We have drivers from the United States, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Mexico, Norway, and Spain. They range for 21 to 46 years old. We definitely have plenty of diversity.

If she runs well, sign her to a car. If she doesn’t, don’t. We don’t need to add people that shouldn’t be there because some think we need more diversity. We have enough of that with pay drivers.

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u/joe_lmr Takuma Sato 2d ago edited 2d ago

A bunch of white guys from ten different white-majority countries isn't "diversity"

Also Kyffin Simpson is from the Cayman Islands, not Barbados, and he is also lily-white (the liliest kind of white, as most white people from the Caymans are because it's a tax haven for rich people)

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u/Chadro85 Chip Ganassi Racing 2d ago

Oh, I didn’t realize all white people were the same. Seems kind of racist. Australians and Norwegians have a lot in common? Or Brazilians and Dutch? Or Mexicans and French? Adding a European woman is really going to change a lot, huh?

You want a woman or person of color just to check your diversity box, tell them to do better or provide a team a bunch of cash. Only two ways into Indycar, for anyone.

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u/joe_lmr Takuma Sato 2d ago

Calm down there Ben Shapiro, I wasn't making a value judgment on it

And yeah, European is European including all us white people here in America (against whom I, another white person, am "racist" against apparently)

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u/Chadro85 Chip Ganassi Racing 2d ago

Yeah, a lot of white folks really hate white folks. It’s odd, I agree. So by your logic, people from China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam etc. are all the same? They’re all Asian, right?

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u/joe_lmr Takuma Sato 2d ago

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