INDIANÁPOLIS (AP) — Scott McLaughlin chocó su coche del equipo Penske en la práctica del domingo y perdió la oportunidad de repetir la pole que ganó el año pasado en las 500 Millas de Indianápolis.
McLaughlin se clasificó el sábado entre los 12 primeros y era elegible para competir por la pole el domingo. Pero hizo un trompo en el Indianapolis Motor Speedway e inmediatamente levantó ambas manos hacia su casco mientras se preparaba para el impacto con el muro de la curva dos.
El coche del neozelandés quedó destruido y el equipo Penske dijo que lo colocarían en el puesto 12 y ni siquiera intentarían una carrera de clasificación el domingo. El auto de McLaughlin es el coche de respaldo de velocidad de Penske y había sido destinado para que su compañero Josef Newgarden lo usara en la competencia de equipos de boxes de la próxima semana.
McLaughlin, quien el año pasado lideró la barrida de Penske en la primera fila de la clasificación, estaba claramente desanimado después de ser dado de alta del centro médico.
“Estoy bien, solo que realmente, realmente, realmente, realmente, realmente lo siento por todos en el equipo Penske”, expresó McLaughlin. “Me estaba hablando y lo sentí un poco, y probablemente debería haberme retirado, pero estás tratando de completar una vuelta para ver cómo se siente y ¿valía la pena el riesgo? Probablemente no. Estoy increíblemente triste.”
Dijo que se sentía afortunado de que el coche no se elevara en el aire hacia la valla de protección, pero el choque causó daños en la superficie de la pista que los trabajadores estaban reparando durante una parada creada por su accidente.
“Pueden construir un coche nuevo para mí, pero estoy realmente destrozado más que nada,” manifestó McLaughlin. “Es difícil de aceptar, como si desearas que fuera por algo, pero fue por nada, ¿verdad? En la práctica.”
McLaughlin también se sintió afectado al ver a su esposa llorar después de su accidente por preocupación por él.
“Están nerviosos por mí,” comentó. “Quería salir del coche de inmediato solo para que ella supiera que estaba bien.”
Ha habido tres choques fuertes en los últimos dos días en Indianápolis. Marcus Armstrong y Colton Herta chocaron el sábado. Armstrong sólo podrá clasificarse el domingo para el grupo de 33 usando un coche de respaldo de carretera y circuito urbano. Herta se clasificó entre los 30 primeros una vez que su coche estuvo listo para la clasificación.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
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The View’sAlyssa Farah Griffin complained former First Lady Jill Biden was “very unhelpful” during an interview with her husband and prevented him from shutting down “cognitive decline” concerns.
Former President Joe Biden appeared on The View where he defended
staying in the 2024 election before endorsing former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Griffin joined CNN anchor Abby Phillip on Saturday Table for Five and when asked about the first lady joining her husband for the interview, Griffin admitted it played into the “worst assumptions” about him, including that he can’t “finish a sentence.”
“I left thinking he definitely could not have done another four years,” Griffin said about her reaction to the interview.
“What did you make of the fact that Jill Biden was there with him?” Phillip asked.
Griffin recalled during the interview that she had asked Biden about growing reports suggesting there was a “dramatic decline” in his cognitive abilities while in office. Biden called the reports wrong, but his wife stepped in to give a fuller answer, saying, “Alyssa, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us and they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.”
“I thought it was very unhelpful,” Griffin told Phillip on Saturday. “I asked the specific question about allegations of his cognitive decline. And he began to answer and then she jumped in for him. And I get it, as a spouse, you want to help your partner, but that was his moment to knock out of the park any fear that he has cognitive decline, and it played into. Basically the worst assumptions, that he can’t finish sentences and she had to help him out.”
Biden’s cognitive state while in office has become a hotly-debated topic once again as a new book
from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson revealed White House officials were actively concerned about the president amid multiple slip ups, including not recognizing George Clooney at a fundraiser.
New explosive audio of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in 2023 also dropped from Axios this week where Biden appears confused multiple times and he speaks in a hoarse voice. The White House previously blocked the release of the audio
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Director Kash Patel dismissed conspiracy theories about the death of sexual predator and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein during a joint interview Sunday on Fox News.
Bongino
stated clearly that Epstein’s 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City was a suicide and nothing more.
Speaking on Sunday Morning Futures with host Maria Bartiromo, Bongino and Patel
were pressed on widespread skepticism surrounding Epstein’s death, which has fueled years of speculation.
Both officials said the evidence supports the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide.
Bartiromo said to Patel, “You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it.”
Patel replied, “Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who’s been in that prison system, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center. Who’s been in segregated housing. You know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was.”
Bongino interjected, “He killed himself. Again, you want me to get, I’ve… I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.”
Neither address the release of a trove of documents about Epstein that Attorney General Pam Bondivowed to release
three months ago.
The comment is particularly notable coming from Bongino — who, prior to assuming his new post at the FBI, trafficked in Epstein conspiracy theories — having notably alleged
that former President Bill Clinton is “knee-deep in this Jeffrey Epstein scandal.”
After the interview, Bongino took to his X account to explain the reason he and Patel sat down with Bartiromo. He also doubled down on Epstein’s death, which he said was suicide.
I haven’t done any media interviews to this point because I want to keep the attention on the work. I don’t work for myself anymore, I work for you.
But it is important to relay to you what we’re doing, and the media can be a tool for that. That’s why we chose a long-form…
“I haven’t done any media interviews to this point because I want to keep the attention on the work,” Bongino wrote. “I don’t work for myself anymore, I work for you. But it is important to relay to you what we’re doing, and the media can be a tool for that. That’s why we chose a long-form interview with Maria Bartiromo for our first interview. He added:
I was asked about some of the details surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case. I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. There’s no evidence in the case file indicating otherwise. I’m not asking you to believe me, or not. I’m telling you what exists, and what doesn’t. If new evidence surfaces I’m happy to reevaluate.
A guest on Meet the Press completely rejected a fellow panelist’s defense of former President Joe Biden’s allies who are pleading ignorance on his decline.
In a roundtable discussion on Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC News political analyst Stephen Hayes scoffed at the suggestion from PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz that Biden allies did not observe any behavior that suggested he was not fit to serve as president.
“The consistency that I’m hearing from some Democrats when they’re asked about this … people who were close to [Biden], who saw him regularly, even in the final months of office, maintain to this day they never saw anything like what they saw at the debate in private,” Narwaz said. “And they also say, it’s not going to be an issue for them in 2028.”
Hayes blasted those making that claim.
“I’m sorry, that is crazy!” Hayes said. “That’s crazy for them to say!”
Biden’s decline has been a huge topic ahead of Tuesday’s publication of Original Sin — a book which has already yielded explosive revelations
about the former president and efforts to conceal his cognitive fitness. Hayes believe the book makes clear that Democrats very much aware of Biden’s decline.
“One of the things that this book does is it provides chapter and verse, detail after overwhelming detail, that they did know,” Hayes said. “And that everybody knew. And look, the public knew! We knew. We knew! We watched it in real time.”
