Indy 500 Looms large

[Failzero]

Biggest Auto Race in the World is tomorrow and I’m watching every lap . I am pleased to see a Jap Driver ( Two time Indy 500 winner Sato ) and a Woman Driver (Legge in the # 11 Chevy ) and every year I root for those specific categories of Racers . I have watched this Race religiously since the late 1960s and have fond memories of Jim Nabors singing “ Back home again “
This is a proud moment every year for America when this race starts and a peak vision of the Greatness of the USA .

 

[1srelluc]

I always watch it, no idea why.....I blame Christmas Story.

 

[Failzero]

I always watch it, no idea why.....I blame Christmas Story.

Watched that movie one time on TV a few years after its theatrical run ( do not remember that scene )

 

[Concerned American]

Biggest Auto Race in the World is tomorrow and I’m watching every lap . I am pleased to see a Jap Driver ( Two time Indy 500 winner Sato ) and a Woman Driver (Legge in the # 11 Chevy ) and every year I root for those specific categories of Racers . I have watched this Race religiously since the late 1960s and have fond memories of Jim Neighbors singing “ Back home again “
This is a proud moment every year for America when this race starts and a peak vision of the Greatness of the USA .

Biggest race in the world happens today---Wienermobile 500!

 

[Failzero]

Biggest race in the world happens today---Wienermobile 500!
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Sausage Party 3 ?

 

[toobfreak]

Biggest Auto Race in the World is tomorrow and I’m watching every lap .

Do not forget, this afternoon is the NASCAR Cup race too. I'll be watching that as well. No doubt they will have some ceremony there in remembrance of Kyle Busch.

 

[Oddball]

Have been attending qualifiers for the last four years.

Great fun schmoozing with the local race fans for a couple days up on the turn 1 SW Penthouse seats.

 

[August West]

It`s Jim Nabors. Neighbors are the people who live across the street.

A Tribute to Jim Nabors

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway pays special tribute to a living Indianapolis 500 legend, Jim Nabors, and his traditional singing of "(Back Home Again in) Indiana"

www.indycar.com

For a guy who made his living singing, he was pretty good as Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.

 

[1srelluc]

Do not forget, this afternoon is the NASCAR Cup race too. I'll be watching that as well. No doubt they will have some ceremony there in remembrance of Kyle Busch.

RIP.

 

[toobfreak]

Have been attending qualifiers for the last four years.
Great fun schmoozing with the local race fans for a couple days up on the turn 1 SW Penthouse seats.

OK, so I will ask the BIG QUESTION:

If NASCAR racing, Indy Racing, Drag racing went 100% EV with electric cars running on batteries with no loud engines, no exhaust, no 1000 finely tuned and balanced moving parts, no sound on the track other than the low hum of whining electric motors, everything determined by computer programing rather than svelte mechanical excellence,

HOW WOULD THIS AFFECT YOUR INTEREST IN RACING?

Would it still even be racing to you? Or too much deja vu like reliving your childhood with a set of Hot Wheels cars?

 

[Failzero]

It`s Jim Nabors. Neighbors are the people who live across the street.

A Tribute to Jim Nabors

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway pays special tribute to a living Indianapolis 500 legend, Jim Nabors, and his traditional singing of "(Back Home Again in) Indiana"

www.indycar.com

For a guy who made his living singing, he was pretty good as Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.

Thanx , I miss him ( a lot ) , it’s not the same without him …

 

[Oddball]

OK, so I will ask the BIG QUESTION:

If NASCAR racing, Indy Racing, Drag racing went 100% EV with electric cars running on batteries with no loud engines, no exhaust, no 1000 finely tuned and balanced moving parts, no sound on the track other than the low hum of whining electric motors, everything determined by computer programing rather than svelte mechanical excellence,

HOW WOULD THIS AFFECT YOUR INTEREST IN RACING?

Would it still even be racing to you? Or too much deja vu like reliving your childhood with a set of Hot Wheels cars?

Would kill my interest in it.

 

[August West]

I like that kind of music, but who`s the retard who wrote the idiotic stuff under the video?
Subjugated or Dead?

 

[Chuz Life]

Biggest Auto Race in the World is tomorrow and I’m watching every lap . I am pleased to see a Jap Driver ( Two time Indy 500 winner Sato ) and a Woman Driver (Legge in the # 11 Chevy ) and every year I root for those specific categories of Racers . I have watched this Race religiously since the late 1960s and have fond memories of Jim Neighbors singing “ Back home again “
This is a proud moment every year for America when this race starts and a peak vision of the Greatness of the USA .

I've been to several and a few times got tickets from working on the two way radios for Motorola. Met a lot of drivers and even got to sit in Johnnie Rutherords Indy car! Some of his team told me they never got to do that!

Lots of great times.

The best view I ever had, though, was with an old C-Band satellite dish. I found an unscrambled live feed from the track and was able to watch the race with no commercials, see things that most other people didn't.

There's nothing like "being there," but that live feed was close.

 

[Failzero]

I've been to several and a few times got tickets from working on the two way radios for Motorola. Met a lot of drivers and even got to sit in Johnnie Rutherords Indy car! Some of his team told me they never got to do that!

Lots of great times.

The best view I ever had, though, was with an old C-Band satellite dish. I found an unscrambled live feed from the track and was able to watch the race with no commercials, see things that most other people didn't.

There's nothing like "being there," but that live feed was close.

There are old timers who have attended the race every year since they were little kids , it’s one of the most American Traditions I can think of