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"The Greatest Spectacle In Racing"

Judge

Judge

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Indianapolis 500 - May 29th, 12:45pm EST.

Got any favorite drivers ?

Patricio (Pato) O'Ward to win! The young lad from County Nuevo Leon, Ireland. Errr....uhhhhh Mexico. :cool: And kudos to Kiwi Scott Dixon who landed the poll position with an average of 234.046 mph. Good on ya, Scott. ;)

2022 Indy 500 Betting Odds, Contenders
 
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It's been roughly twenty years since I was really into racing to where I knew all the drivers' names and their back stories. My daughter and I like to bond watching NASCAR, but we don't know much about the drivers or their families. It is just for fun and excitement. We used to watch it more in the past, but now we don't watch much TV at all. We like going to car meets more now.

But back before Dale Earnhardt died, I was very much into NASCAR, and really invested in all of the drivers. My whole family was. It was just so sad, I guess I stopped being a fan and instead, became an entertained observer. I like watching it. I get excited when the driver I like is winning, I enjoy cheering them on.

But I honestly couldn't tell you about any of the drivers these days.

When I lived in Florida I did go to Daytona and saw the speedway. It was pretty exciting.
 
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They say everything is bigger in the US and it's so true. This is what we have here. It's barely a race compared to the Indy 500.

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Looks fun...no matter what the scale of racing may be. I enjoy Formula One racing in Europe as well...apart from NASCAR. ;)

Even got see the great Jackie Stewart race in CAN/AM at Laguna Seca one year. And had so much fun with my cousin as a child when my uncle took us to the Orange County Drag Races.
 
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When I was a little kid in Vegas, my uncle worked at the Las Vegas Speedway.

He would get my dad and I in for free, and we got front row seats, because we stood with him at his booth right by the track. Like literally, my sneakers were about a foot or two from the cars as they skidded around the corner.

I remember it being so very loud, I would crouch and cover my ears when the cars came back around the track. There was a little guardrail type fence around the track, by my uncle's booth, and my daddy would swat my fingers, if I rested them on the fence. I can see why now. A car could have easily crushed them. I was so young, but I know we saw a lot of big events there.

I clearly remember how we would often go to the "demolition derby" and that was loud, dusty, and kind of scary/exciting for little me.
 
Memorial Day is the one day a year I crank up my stereo. Not to play music, but to have it piped into my cable tv receiver as soon as the checkered flag is waved at Indy. VRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. :)

Mind-boggling to see so many cars moving so fast for about three hours. :cool:

So many names of those who could well win this one:

Row 1: Scott Dixon (pole), Alex Palou, Rinus VeeKay
Row 2: Ed Carpenter, Marcus Ericsson, Tony Kanaan
Row 3: Pato O'Ward, Felix Rosenqvist, Romain Grosjean
Row 4: Takuma Sato, Will Power, Jimmie Johnson
Row 5: David Makulas, Josef Newgarden, Santino Ferrucci
Row 6: Simon Pagenaud, JR Hildebrand, Conor Daly
Row 7: Callum Ilott, Alexander Rossi, Graham Rahal
Row 8: Sage Karam, Marco Andretti, Devlin DeFrancesco
Row 9: Colton Herta, Scott McLaughlin, Helio Castroneves
Row 10: Kyle Kirkwood, Dalton Kellett, Juan Pablo Montoya
Row 11: Christian Lundgaard, Jack Harvey, Stefan Wilson
 
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The hometown where I grew up, every summer, they would have this tractor pull type event, where they'd flood the fairgrounds, creating this muddy bog. Then old farm machinery, rusty cars, and trucks would drive into the bog. I don't really remember the rules. I think it was like a combination tractor pull and demolition derby. I think the main thing was to spray as much mud on the crowd as possible.

People would wear plastic sheeting because mud would basically plaster everyone in the stands. That was a lot of fun. Especially to see my very prim grandmother wearing a straw hat, and soaked head to toe in mud. We'd all come home terribly sunburned, and we couldn't go inside unless we hosed off first!
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
The hometown where I grew up, every summer, they would have this tractor pull type event, where they'd flood the fairgrounds, creating this muddy bog. Then old farm machinery, rusty cars, and trucks would drive into the bog. I don't really remember the rules. I think it was like a combination tractor pull and demolition derby. I think the main thing was to spray as much mud on the crowd as possible.

People would wear plastic sheeting because mud would basically plaster everyone in the stands. That was a lot of fun. Especially to see my very prim grandmother wearing a straw hat, and soaked head to toe in mud. We'd all come home terribly sunburned, and we couldn't go inside unless we hosed off first!
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I got to attend a Demolition Derby once at a major county fair. So much fun! Real Americana....:cool:
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
It's been roughly twenty years since I was really into racing to where I knew all the drivers' names and their back stories. My daughter and I like to bond watching NASCAR, but we don't know much about the drivers or their families. It is just for fun and excitement. We used to watch it more in the past, but now we don't watch much TV at all. We like going to car meets more now.

But back before Dale Earnhardt died, I was very much into NASCAR, and really invested in all of the drivers. My whole family was. It was just so sad, I guess I stopped being a fan and instead, became an entertained observer. I like watching it. I get excited when the driver I like is winning, I enjoy cheering them on.

But I honestly couldn't tell you about any of the drivers these days.

When I lived in Florida I did go to Daytona and saw the speedway. It was pretty exciting.
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I got a bus tour of Daytona years ago.
They let us out of the bus to see how steep the turns were banked.
I was a NASCAR fan once too.
I totally lost interest in it when they debuted the car of tomorrow.
In essence, they were all the same, the only difference being the light sticker package to match the powerplant they ran.
Now it is Formula NASCAR.
They claimed it was done to make the cars safer, but the reality of it all was that they really didn't share a single part off their production cars and they ended up going too fast.
If they had stuck to their roots, it would still be race on Sunday and sell on Monday all over again.
I think a good strong 4 cylinder class based on production parts could return it to their glory days.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing no longer exists, so why retain the name?
 
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing no longer exists, so why retain the name?
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Good question. The cars of today are little other than what I'd call "prototypes". Not stock cars at all. Very different from when we were kids when they really were just souped up stock cars.

I loved hearing the history of some of the original stock car racers...born out of bootlegging. Sure glad none of them ever met up with my grandfather, a Treasury Department revenuer. A far cry from what NASCAR is today. :oops:
 
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When I drove my streetmachine on The Brickyard.
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It is so flat it is amazing that they still race on it at the speeds they do.
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That's a consideration of why I kind of cringe at the Indy "Grand Prix" races. I love the visuals, but damn...racing on public road surfaces gives me the creeps. Remember in the Detroit Grand Prix when the pace car lost traction and hit the wall before the race even began? Hit uneven pavement....and that was just the pace car! (Traction control was turned off.) :eek:

At Indy they do it right...though I still cringe if it starts to rain. Speaking of which, I need to check the weather forecast. - Partly cloudy...84 degrees Fahrenheit. That works. :)

Kudos to Roger Penske, owner of the Indy 500. Can't think of a better caretaker in racing.
 
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Car races are ok. But for me nothing tops Chihuahua Racing. And there's no chance to be bored. The races are short. Very short. And they aren't very picky about entrants often. For instance one race says 'You don't need an actual chihuahua! At Salsa 17, any dog under 20 lbs IS a chihuahua'.


;)
 
I never got much into it as I could never afford a decent car and much of wrenching was beyond me. But getting out to track days with my MR2 has been great fun. Up to now I've been working on safety . . . the latest was improving ducting to cool the rotors. Saving up to drop in a better engine and trans.
 
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