I’m addicted to speed
2007 Indianapolis 500–caution laps (It’s much louder and they’re MUCH faster under green!~)
It was an unusual set of events that made it possible, in the end, I found myself holding four tickets to the Indy 500.
I’ve considered myself a lifelong race fan–following both Nascar and Indy car from the midseventies forward. I attended my first Nascar event in 1988, another since and a few pole days as well. The Indy 500 was always…so big and so…historic, I never imagined I’d get to go.
The weather threatened us, and eventually washed us out (we left early, mainly because it was a minimum 3hrs until race restart AFTER the rain stopped and we were parked about 3 miles from our car. There was limited room to stand under the grandstands, and although we had ponchos were wet. The biggest downer for us was the number of people who had been excessively drinking and behaving stupidly. We hated the idea of those jerks driving, especially given three hours of nothing TO do but drink until the race restarted. But we saw over half of it, and it was an experience that will last a lifetime!
My daughter used the voice record on her phone to catch the cars going by at race speed, and has that now as her ring tone. It rocks!
Today, we’re relaxing and recovering–the drive, the heat, the rain, the fact we didn’t eat more than a granola bar and apple pie from McDonalds from 3:30am until nearly 6pm probably didn’t help–we need it. Hopefully I can kick back later with some writing and wrap my brain around it.
Hope all of you have had or are having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. Thanks for all the troops, past and present, who make it possible to have this free country. Thanks to the families who have sacrificed as well. God bless the USA.
PotC 3 AND Indy?
Geez, woman! If I didn’t already lubs you, I’d be hating you right now.
May 28th, 2007 | #
I’m glad you got to go, love.
Too bad about the weather and Lindsey Lohan wannabes, but alas, this is the stuff of good memories
May 29th, 2007 | #
Rockin video…AND sound! (Now that I finally got the office and the dsl hookup so I could see it )
May 31st, 2007 | #
Wow, very cool! I’m glad that you got to go. The only race that I’ve been to is Talladega, which was fun. There were plenty of the binge drinkers there as well, but otherwise a great deal of fun.
May 31st, 2007 | #
We want to go to the Indy 500 one year. We used to go to a lot of the races at Laguna Seca in California and we went to one at Long Beach. For our honeymoon, we went to the Formula 1 race in Indianapolis. That was the year that brought that race back to the US. We were disgusted at the drinking and the overall attitude of a lot of the spectators there.
June 3rd, 2007 | #