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New Track Record’s Ten Worthless Opinions – Sao Paulo Indy 300
What comes to mind when you think of Brazil? Carnival? Samba? Nude beaches? Crime? I assume your answer is “yes” to all of those. Another answer is auto racing. Brazilians love fast cars. It’s...
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The Honda Indy Toronto: Red Flag Edition
Who knew there would be so much angst over a piece of red fabric. The red flag flew on Saturday and Sunday at the Honda Indy Toronto multiple times amidst accusations, confusions, rain, wrecks, and...
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Why Indy is more than a race
After winning the Indy 500 in 1992, Al Unser, Jr. said, “You just don’t know what Indy means.” He was right. Somehow, words cannot always convey the emotional connection that the Indianapolis Motor...
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Spending at the Speedway
The band ’63 Burnout has a song called “Trouble at the Speedway,” a very Dick Dale-ish surf guitar instrumental. Good stuff. The title made me ponder some of the current troubles at the Speedway....
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2015 Indy 500: postcards from the NE Vista
Another Indianapolis 500 has come and gone, and besides torched Port-O-Lets and the general detritus left by a sunburned and slightly inebriated humanity, the race was what we all have come to expect....
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A Good Race is Hard to Find.
Flannery O’Conn0r wrote the Southern Gothic short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” about an old woman whose manipulative behavior and selfishness led to her family’s destruction. Luckily, there was...
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Pole Day at Indy – Saturday should have been Sunday
The Saturday qualifications for the 2016 Indianapolis 500 were fantastic, fabulous, superb, scintillating, tense, and whatever other words can be found in a thesaurus. It’s just too bad they didn’t...
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