LSLPR Posted May 29, 2010 Report Share Posted May 29, 2010 One more day to The Greatest Spectacle in Racing! If you've never been to the 500 put it on your to do list. The Spirit of IMS Tom Carnegie - The Voice of the 500 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEVCwteJoo...feature=channel Jim Nabors - Back Home Again in Indiana It's almost as good as being there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neon14 Posted May 29, 2010 Report Share Posted May 29, 2010 I've been to five Indy 500s as a child, the last one was in 1981. Dad had talked about going this year but he has not been feeling well lately. If he would have gone this year it would have been 5 consecutive decades that he attended at least one Indy 500. He once went 16 years in a row. I remember getting up at 5 in the morning and hopping in the 4 door mazda RX-2 (the car that dad would eventually turn into a race car) and making the 2 hour trip to Indianapolis. Parking what seemed like miles from the track and walking strait to the KFC which was open at 8 in the morning for that day to get a bucket of chicken. Dad would walk so fast that me, mom, and grandma could not keep up and he would have to wait every few blocks for us to catch up. Dads not that fast anymore. When we finally got into the stands we would all sit down and eat our chicken and watch the prerace ceremonies. It seemed to take forever for the race to start but when it did I was the happiest kid in all of Indiana. I miss those days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted May 30, 2010 Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 That old mazda had alot of history ........here you have memorys of going to indy in it .we have memorys of trying to out run it at cc ...lol......btw do you still eat at kfc ...... pull up an old pic of that car ..like to see it again .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyRodriguez Posted May 30, 2010 Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 (edited) I love the 500, it is the one Indy car race that I will not miss every year. BUT there are empty seats there it looks like... the series has to find a way to get an American presence back in the series to get the race back to what it once was. The 500 is now the prelude to the main event on Memorial Day weekend... the World 600, didn't used to be like that. But that's when the Foyt, the Unsers, Mears, Rutherford, Johncock, Dallenbach, and the list goes on were the one's doin it. Mario Andretti was an outside coming in, I remember in the 80's when Joselie Garza snuck up on us that one year! Seems the Indy race has just lost some appeal here in the U.S. Am glad to see Jack Nicholson at a cool event other than a Lakers game! Edited May 30, 2010 by outlaw22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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