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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 9:22 pm 
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What in the world are you all doing today, when you should have been watching the Indy 500? It's not a tradition in your house? Gomer Pyle singing Back at Home in Indiana? Gentlemen start your engines?

It was epic. Multi-car crash at around lap 175, prompting a red flag. They do a re-start, and there were 5 lead changes in the last 15 laps. And the Frenchman wins the first time since the 1930s!

Best Indy race I ever saw probably.


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So epic that you don't even know Jim Nabors has been dead for a year and a half, and hasn't sang at the Indy 500 in over four years.

Tie 100lb weights to your legs and take a swim in Lake Michigan. Tonight, preferably.

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That was indeed a great finish.

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That was indeed a great finish.


It was far more interesting than Monaco was, but I must admit to falling asleep during the red flag. It's been a long day.

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Use to be a big deal when I was young.

Now I don't even know if it's on.

Why has this event fallen to forgetfulness?


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So epic that you don't even know Jim Nabors has been dead for a year and a half, and hasn't sang at the Indy 500 in over four years.

Tie 100lb weights to your legs and take a swim in Lake Michigan. Tonight, preferably.


That is pretty good there. :lol: Blackhawk Jim C. sang it.

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Even Trump weighed in.

"Congratulations to the Great (and my friend) Roger Penske on winning his 18th (UNBELIEVABLE!) Indianapolis 500. I am in Japan, very early in the morning, but I got to watch Simon drive one of the greatest races in the history of the sport. I will see them both, & TEAM, at the WH!


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It was a good race......aside from having to hear from Danica be part of the coverage.

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I completely forgot about it.

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It's a catch-22 around here, so much to do to catch up outside if the weather is good, if it is raining here and I can be inside, then it is likely raining there, too. I could not find any radio coverage. I watched a few early laps but came in too late for the finish. I did watch the last 35 laps of F1 in Monaco, those cars amaze me with 40-250mph in the matter of a hundred yards, but the racing is less engaging, almost dependent on a mistake to even pass. Nice to be able to watch the last half of the Coke 600, some serious scrambling the last 6 laps there.


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I was just talking about this. My dad never had a driver's license. He certainly wasn't some car guy. And he wasn't a fan of auto racing. But we watched the Indianapolis 500 every year.

Al Unser, A.J. Foyt, and Mario Andretti were sports stars on equal footing with Willie Mays, Roger Staubach, and Wilt Chamberlain. I couldn't name one driver in yesterday's race.

I think they really damaged the brand back when they had that beef between Indy Car Racing and CART or whatever the competing organizations were. I think a couple years CART actually ran a race opposite the 500 with all the top drivers. I don't remember all the details. I'm sure a real fan could explain what happened better. But I don't think the race has ever recovered.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Unser, A.J. Foyt, and Mario Andretti were sports stars on equal footing with Willie Mays, Roger Staubach, and Wilt Chamberlain.


No mention of Zoilo Versalles ?


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I was just talking about this. My dad never had a driver's license. He certainly wasn't some car guy. And he wasn't a fan of auto racing. But we watched the Indianapolis 500 every year.

Al Unser, A.J. Foyt, and Mario Andretti were sports stars on equal footing with Willie Mays, Roger Staubach, and Wilt Chamberlain. I couldn't name one driver in yesterday's race.

I think they really damaged the brand back when they had that beef between Indy Car Racing and CART or whatever the competing organizations were. I think a couple years CART actually ran a race opposite the 500 with all the top drivers. I don't remember all the details. I'm sure a real fan could explain what happened better. But I don't think the race has ever recovered.


The family that owned the Speedway got into a power grab and killed the golden goose iirc.

Typical screwup by another second and third generation of sports franchise owners.

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I was just talking about this. My dad never had a driver's license. He certainly wasn't some car guy. And he wasn't a fan of auto racing. But we watched the Indianapolis 500 every year.

Al Unser, A.J. Foyt, and Mario Andretti were sports stars on equal footing with Willie Mays, Roger Staubach, and Wilt Chamberlain. I couldn't name one driver in yesterday's race.

I think they really damaged the brand back when they had that beef between Indy Car Racing and CART or whatever the competing organizations were. I think a couple years CART actually ran a race opposite the 500 with all the top drivers. I don't remember all the details. I'm sure a real fan could explain what happened better. But I don't think the race has ever recovered.

I lived in Indy for a few years and followed the CART series pretty heavily from 1993 until whenever it died. JORR is right about the prestige of Indy. It was a huge deal - the only race they ran at the Speedway. My dad was a car guy and I was a kid that played stick-and-ball sports. We never really got along all that well, but we bonded over the 500.

I attended many races - Michigan, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Chicago (Stickney, hello!), Road America, Mid-Ohio, the race at the Cleveland airport, Indy - I was drawn by the different formats. Pit/paddock access was a great experience too – met Walter Payton, Paul Newman, Roger Penske, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, etc.

My CART bias will probably show, but basically Tony George – idiot grandson of the IMS founder – decided there were too many foreigners/ride buyers and more spots needed to be reserved for deserving drivers at Indy – the Jeff Gordon/Tony Stewart type that grew up racing midgets on dirt. IMS started the oval-only IRL and both series continued to shoot themselves in the foot, all the while NASCAR grew and grew. Goddamn shame.

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They're aiming to run it in August according to the Indiana Governor.

https://www.wane.com/big-race-indy-shar ... rnor-says/

Memorial Day weekend won't be the same without it.


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I think we went every year from around 80-92. We'd leave around midnight and stop at a Murph's 76 outside of Indy for breakfast. We'd get in the entrance line around 4:30AM and wait for the gates to open while everybody in the line started drinking bloody marys. We'd eventually get into the infield where everybody drank more and started eating. When it rained there would be mud wrestling and other things a yoot would never see at home. We'd eventually drag the cooler to the seats and my parents would drink more and I'd eat more. We'd leave at about the 1/2 way mark, in retrospect I have no idea if my dad or unlcle were really sober enough to drive, but we all got home safely every time.


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...We'd leave at about the 1/2 way mark, in retrospect I have no idea if my dad or unlcle were really sober enough to drive, but we all got home safely every time.

Al Unser Jr. school or driving graduates for sure. I was lucky enough to attend too.


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I have some family that used to go every year. Was always wanting to go with them but it never seemed to work out. Definitely on the bucket list of things I hope to do.

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They're aiming to run it in August according to the Indiana Governor.

https://www.wane.com/big-race-indy-shar ... rnor-says/

Memorial Day weekend won't be the same without it.


Remarkably stupid. Gate receipts are massive but will still be way down even then. And the "sport" will cede the year to NASCAR. As usual.

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Pretty good race so far. Dixon has been leading for a while and then just lost it to Sato.

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Davidson's wheel catching on fire was bizarre. And almost horrific.

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Looks like its between Sato and Dixon

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Regular Reader wrote:
Dignified Rube wrote:
They're aiming to run it in August according to the Indiana Governor.

https://www.wane.com/big-race-indy-shar ... rnor-says/

Memorial Day weekend won't be the same without it.


Remarkably stupid. Gate receipts are massive but will still be way down even then. And the "sport" will cede the year to NASCAR. As usual.

:lol: Not a sport? That's crazy talk.

I get that it's not your thing, but FI/Indy requires serious fitness and insane concentration, not to mention putting your life on the line every time you compete.

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Red flag out after a driver hit the pit wall.

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That was some impact.

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That was some impact.

yeah that was crazy. That dude is lucky to be alive.

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That was some impact.

yeah that was crazy. That dude is lucky to be alive.

Nah, the energy-disipating technology is off the charts these days. I was expecting him to be fine. Maybe not walk away from it like he did. :lol:

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I, too, miss the allure of The Great American Race.

I recall going on family road trips and always listening to the race while in the car on the way back from wherever we went off to.

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Furious Styles wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Dignified Rube wrote:
They're aiming to run it in August according to the Indiana Governor.

https://www.wane.com/big-race-indy-shar ... rnor-says/

Memorial Day weekend won't be the same without it.


Remarkably stupid. Gate receipts are massive but will still be way down even then. And the "sport" will cede the year to NASCAR. As usual.

:lol: Not a sport? That's crazy talk.

I get that it's not your thing, but FI/Indy requires serious fitness and insane concentration, not to mention putting your life on the line every time you compete.

Left turns are tough.

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Douchebag wrote:
Furious Styles wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Dignified Rube wrote:
They're aiming to run it in August according to the Indiana Governor.

https://www.wane.com/big-race-indy-shar ... rnor-says/

Memorial Day weekend won't be the same without it.


Remarkably stupid. Gate receipts are massive but will still be way down even then. And the "sport" will cede the year to NASCAR. As usual.

:lol: Not a sport? That's crazy talk.

I get that it's not your thing, but FI/Indy requires serious fitness and insane concentration, not to mention putting your life on the line every time you compete.

Left turns are tough.

Dude, you're nothing more than an ankle biter around here these days. Sad.

FI only races on road courses and IndyCar mixes them in, so you also don't know what you're talking about.

Stick and ball only sports fans moronically interjecting themselves into motorsports discussions are the worst.

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