Michael Cannon is “unavailable” to engineer Dennis Hauger at Long Beach

I feel so bad for Dennis Hauger. He was a total monster in IndyNXT, and then he comes up to the big leagues, and it turns out his super-genius veteran race engineer, Michael Cannon, is “unavailable” for Long Beach for undisclosed reasons. How Cannon even ended up at Dale Coyne Racing after all he’s seen and done is a matter people in the paddock speak about in hushed tones. He is not the most reliable person in the paddock, let’s put it that way. No idea whether that’s what’s at play here, but the pattern is uncomfortable to observe.