Showing posts with label Indianapolis 500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indianapolis 500. Show all posts

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Can You Do 4 Rounds of Indianapolis 500 Qualifying?

 I am going to Force Myself to Be Editorial and offer could Indianapolis Motor Speedway do 4 Rounds of Indianapolis 500 Qualifying? I feel that one that makes me madder than a Wet Hen is not having Order and Normalcy to Indianapolis 500 Qualifying.

It would be akin to Not Having "The" Talk and worse, the reason behind it was to save yourself from yourself. Frankly, Tony George and Brian Barnhart are Relics, and I do not like how we Equaled Simon and or Simon on Dallara (And Others) and not got focused on A..New...Track...Record!

I would like even better to Yoink the New Closed Circuit Record off of Fontana's Dirty, Filthy, No Good, Very Bad Hands! And, I don't see no Cartoons leading up to No Indianapolis 500 Qualifying and I'd rather be on Indianapolis Ground more than driving Grandma and Grandpa Nutty.

I would want 40 Cars at least better than my Own Kids and I am not the Father in True Life. If I was, I would not have enjoyed Mr. Penske or been having this Blog or any Digital Appearances in the Digital Ground. There are way too many Anti-Heroes and Anti-Role Models in the Digital Underground and that is not including the Ghost of Tupac.

I see 10 Other Things my Peers, Friends and Classmates are Doing and not one of them is Cars. We do iRacing as an Olympic Sport, but, we don't focus our Love and or Respect on Earthly Cars. 

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

We Want Moore of Sarah for the Indianapolis 500

 This is not a Fan Boy Post. This is honestly, me wanting Moore (More) of Sarah Moore in Auto Racing from the W Series into the Indianapolis 500. I feel mad that Cody Ware has brought nothing but shame in Showing His Manhood, to keep it PG, and the Ware Outfit is Sus as All Hell.

I really want Sarah Moore because she'd run on the Same Team The Late Justin Wilson put on the Map.

I'd even put 2 Drivers of the Year Just for Sarah Moore and that is no Understatement.

Speaking of Understatement, I feel happier if we broke through the Walls just to see Sarah Moore Win.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Foibles of the Crown Jewel Races

 I want to bring up the foibles of the Crown Jewel Races, and I would start with the Indianapolis 500.

I would think the biggest foible of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing is not having enough Oval Track Heroes and they are in a place again to start finding Racers again. I would find a lot of the Year's Mortgage Payments for Starting have wound up in the Wrong Hands, and I don't know if it would handle a Total Nerfing of a Different Split between IndyCar and Formula One just to keep American Money, and Money in the Right Hands, in general.

With Monaco, I'd feel Class is the Biggest Thing, and Class would be Tough Enough without Mazepin wrecking Boats or Infuriating the Ghost of Mr. Monaco. It is heresy that I don't have an American in Formula One, much less an American Woman in Formula One, as the Centerpiece of Women's Sports.

With LeMans, it would be the Ferrari Hex, and the dearth of American Heroes in LeMans. I don't know if that would help having an Annual Triple Crown just to have it, and it would change a lot of Motorsports just to have one.

Friday, May 28, 2021

I would definitely put Money into the Indianapolis 500 Lap Fund (Within Reason!)

 I feel that I have to get on my High Horse, even if I turned out to be Gerald Ford at the Red River Shootout in 1976. What I am trying to say, is I would definitely put Money into the Indianapolis 500 Lap Fund (Within Reason!).

I'd have plenty of Toys and Friends After 20, but, there is not plenty of chances to throw money at the Indianapolis 500 Lap Fund. Speaking of that, I am mad that there has not been a normal offseason under Penske and there has to at least be that.

Part of pumping up the Lap Fund would be wooing other Manufacturers and Chassis to the Indianapolis 500. It is not Kickstarter, and having to find a full replica 1990 Lola with Willy T. Ribbs's 1991 Indianapolis 500 Paint Scheme shouldn't be an arm and a leg.

We'd have a Market for Antonio Brown but not a Market for Willy T. Ribbs's Car either being rebuilt or replicated? The complications of the marketplace for Willy T. Ribbs's Car is Lola bit the Administration bug for the Last Time in 2012.

I feel strongly about financing the Indianapolis 500 Lap Fund, like it was an Indiana Blue Ribbon Checkoff. I feel ribbed about not always putting money where our mouth is and I don't claim I'm truly grassroots, but, I usually find a way to get along with everyone (Within Reason).

Someone will likely do the job greater and better, and I feel like I am fumbling around things that would not generally have things to do with things, IE wanting to see that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum Renovations actually happens for a Change of Venue.

I feel that most people give little by little, even with having to Young Professionalize Philanthropy without success and it would be like NSYNC's "Pop", where instead of Justin Timberlake having to do a 2 or 3 AM Blip, we'd have to need our Runs out any old way.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

You Can't Buy Your Way Everywhere!

 I feel that you can't buy your way everywhere especially if it is reserved for Military Heroes and True Celebrities. My favorite episode of "The Simpsons", "The Computer That Wore Menace Shoes", played with a new on again-off again Simpsons Storyline with the Nobel Peace Prize, 

I know the Simpsons Staff backpedals on the Nobel, because in later writings, it was the Pulitzer. The backpedaling planted the seed for Bill Gates to buy his way to the Nobel Peace Prize, and his Womanizing Wiles came up recently.

You can't be a Womanizer and Win the Nobel. It comes back to the Old Benny Parsons "The Bank Robber Never Outsmarts the Cops" Attitude.

I find that you can buy your way to the Skybox, but, you can't buy your way to Indianapolis 500 Pace Car Driver. The Donald always has been a Womanizer and a Creep and he has not changed his stripes.

It would be the Lyle Routes where the man would be more interested in playing Golf than maintaining a Golf Course and when word came around in Scotland, he fled home to his Mom in Cedar Rapids with his tail between his legs. I could variate Mr. X until the Cows Come Home, but, that would not make me a Better Employee.

You can't force things or control people's moods. I find that Matt Groening and Chuck Bown went to school in the same time in Portland, even though they went different routes, and Warren Johnson and Bob Dylan crossed paths in Schooling in the University of Minnesota, even though they had different paths and respect for the Working Man and his Family.

It would break the walls on Non-Profits and I don't like McKenzie Scott's Paper Planes Ethic, even though it helps my Coworkers and Staff Out.

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Yup, I am still deflated about the Indianapolis 500's Move

I feel with the one event I would know everything to a cadence, the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indianapolis 500's Postponement has me rightfully deflated, even now. It has me rightfully deflated, even though it would not be socially acceptable to just go 10 Million People off the top.

There would have been no way the Speedrome would have pulled Open Wheel this year and there would have been no way the Night Before the 500 Restart would have happened otherwise. And, even with the fact the NHRA is pushed into Summer, there would have been 0 Way that we would have tried to replace the Indianapolis 500 Time with the Gatornationals or Modified Racing and People would have stood for it.

Other than for reasons, having USAC in Tulsa and not within reach of the Indianapolis Area is something I still can't take aback to honestly. This is not about having fun to make fun, but, it is truthfully hard and I wouldn't even dare consider the Indiana to Oklahoma flip as much as the other way around.

I feel like we have made time machines, but, more appropriately, we would have made Hype Machines and that is a problem. And, the Indy Car Series and Knoxville's Season would start in earnest the same night.

I feel like we'd need to be on a necessary bus, especially if we don't want another Speed to get wrecked again. Especially when Business Decisions matter to people more than people realize.

I don't even want to get going about it, because it is hard to just turn around things on a dime. Especially when the track record for race day would be crushed by 83 Days, which is not good and I don't see the 237/241 Split get written off this year, because I would not want another write off for nothing.

To be fair, I would be genuinely conflicted and even now, it is difficult to type this post without having to feel conflicted.

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Why not sweeten the pot with a World Championship Indianapolis 500?

Amid other things on this post, I have tried to sweeten the pot with a World Championship Indianapolis 500, and that usually has been met with a blind eye and deaf ear. I would feel like the Monaco Grand Prix and the 24 Hours of LeMans would also have to be presented with a World Championship Presentation.

If we tied up Indy Car and Formula One as a World Championship, I do not think the Sister Swap of the end of the last era would have worked in Indy Car. I would think Penske would generally mostly be a Homebody and not necessarily a Busybody given his age and we would not have a Tony George/Brian Barnhart or even a Tony Hulman to bail out if Penske's Health where to go out.

It would be akin to the fact wanting to do Street Fights within the shadow of the field Herschel Walker ran wild in and not having "Don't Do This", and worse, they'd have no interest being split back being sent to where they where before. I would have flown off the dome on something unrelated and something else unrelated, too, but, the Lock and Key Gatekeeper would not happen every single day and I would feel as if the Indianapolis Miles Per Hour Record should be a Points Championship.

If you had to move something else just to get something else moved quicker, at least have the paperwork and not just having to move figures out. If we had to move something akin to Miles Per Hour Records being a Bonus Points Relay, there would be more than one discussion and I would not just mash equipment just to be mad that I would have gotten the perks of 250 Miles Per Hour Should it come up.

I do not want to see another 2010 Scenario, and the reproach for the Renewal 500 has not necessarily spilled over into the other Race Days. I would feel like the Indianapolis Record would be rewritten at least twice next May 15th, 2021 and would be in the same Miles Per Hour and I would think 238 would go down next May 16th, 2021.

We are due for Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Track Record at least in 2021

I still feel the saltiest about having the Indianapolis 500 Festivities be Postponed, out of everything, March Madness included. I would admit that we are due for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Track Record to be reset in 2021. What doesn't help is the Track Record would not be reset for 25 Years by the time Indianapolis 500 Pole Day would happen.

I would admit that the Chicago Traffic of having to fix rival chassis would still have to be deep on the radar. I would feel like resolving the George/Barnhart Block on Dallara's Contract would be necessary.

We would have 22 Full Cars and Stars in Indy Car. I would at least try to sweeten the pot, with having a World Championship Indianapolis 500, because the most visible stars are not in the Indy Car Scene.

It would be Tony Kanaan's Next to Last Scheduled Start and I have not seen the balance of XFinity and the Truck Schedule. Back to the subject, I feel there'd have to be an answer to the mismatched wings especially if I wanted to see the Milwaukee Wings with the Super Speedways and the Fighter Pilot Wings with the Road Courses.

I would have tried to at least pass off Toronto and St. Petersburg as Formula One Grand Prix, but, that would not necessarily materialize.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Would we have the Scene of Scenes with the Indianapolis 500?

I have been digging up tea leaves left and right it feels like, not for your Sports Entertainment, but, I feel since the NHRA announced their Restart Slate, I wonder are we going to get the Scene of Scenes with the Indianapolis 500?

The downside is everyone else but us is Sheltering in Place like it is a School Problem. I don't want to go there, but, that is where we are at. I feel like I would not necessarily speak for this year, but, Dallara's Contract will likely run out and their gimmes just to stay closer to the Eastern United States would too.

I've even dedicated a post to the 300 Swamp Rat, the only Swamp Rat that was not explicitly Roman Numeraled by "Big Daddy" Don Garlits himself. This would be the 1st Significant Non-George/Barnhart Contract that would hit the desk in Indy Car regarding chassises in some time.

I would like to see Denny Hamlin try to follow up the Sterling Marlin with an Annual Daytona 500-Indianapolis 500 Sweep and invading that from NASCAR would be more difficult than the other way around and Kevin Harvick keeping the Indianapolis Championships Fresh for another time and place.

If we where to do a Swamp Rat Indianapolis 500 Special, we'd have to do the Matte Black Paint with the White Lettering because there is not another way to do that. Even though we will finally see the Swamp Rat Tribute on Track in 71 Days again, and I mean on track, not just in cackle, and I'd hope Steve Torrence's run does not fall down, but, there is always that possibility sadly.

Monday, March 23, 2020

How would an Indy Car/Indianapolis 500 World Championship Series Look and Feel Like?

I do feel like we have not seen Indy Car Race since the start of this Network Television Season and we have not seen Formula One Race since the Bayou Classic. I would feel the Indianapolis Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500 would be identified as World Championship Rounds.

I am pleading out whatever Cyberspace to see what World Championship would exist and for reasons, we would have to at least cap the Indianapolis Grand Prix field at 24 and have it be twin races.

The only upside with the Penske Indy Car Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway is there would not have been a lot of people who would have acquired both readily without Hulman-George having to gird one more year indefinitely.

It would have shook and upset what scenes that would have came out subsequent and it would have shook out Detroit and Fort Worth later. It would have shook a Formal World Championship and a formal National Championship out interchangeably and it would have meant Colton Herta being snakebit, and it would have meant other things.

Other than crowing and complaining having Indianapolis 500 Bump Day where we would have otherwise had our 74th Indianapolis 500 Hero, instead of griping about Alonso, we would have been griping and complaining about Alfa Romeo trying to make a run at the field.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Why Not An Indianapolis Double (Indianapolis 500/US Nationals) Victory?

I feel like why not have an Indianapolis Double (Indianapolis 500/US Nationals) Victory in the Same Summer? I would logistically object if it was a Full Time Indy Car Hero and/or someone who needed hype to further their career.

I would find it difficult, if not unreal, if having an NHRA Hero pull the Indianapolis Double like it was normal. I feel like on this blog, I've tried to bring up hysterically historical Stat Runs and People Runs, but, this would be enormously difficult.

If I knew the 3 Peat fell apart for Steve Torrence and I would have appreciated Tanner Gray making a Run when he became drinking age, that would have been tremendous. Instead, we are stuck with the Guy who'd couldn't get a Replacement Driver to save him.

We've done Gene Snow's "Phone Booth" many times to where we'd change the World literally. We haven't, on the Other Hand, done Marlboro Team Penske's "Beasts" Chassis and that was in 1994. I feel like I've always done roasted Dallara for one reason or another and Illmor's been a Bad Penny, and they have been a worse mannered penny when it came to ARCA and Truck Series Racing.

We don't have a 2nd Round of the Championship. If we had that, we can't do nothing is not one of them. It would be even more pressure to the Part Timer or the Guy or Girl who'd have 1 More Day Up in the Valley just to upset a Championship.

To be frank, I do not want to trumpet Meek Mill other than his "Dreams and Nightmares" where his hype has wore down like a Red Bull. I'd rather would prefer the Charlotte Crowd rip in approval for a Championship Trophy.

Fine would not be one of them. If we had a Championship 2nd Round, it would be the Hometown World Championship in Funny Car and Erica Enders filling the mythological Red Corner from Cy-Springs and Texas A and M at once and I would not want to just let it go for no good reason.

Saturday, August 10, 2019

How Close Are We to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 237 MPH Mark?

At some point, civically, I feel we have to master 237 Miles Per Hour at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in IndyCar. I don't know if we'd have Darlington to try to break the outage of Superspeedways between Gateway and Indianapolis, but, I am sure these Contracts (St. Petersburg) are getting refilled to avoid IndyCar from having to grab a Race Weekend again.

I feel like as much as I'd hate to see more Where's Waldo on the IndyCar Scene, I feel that their Formula One Counterparts are grabbing Single Contract Venues that would not fly well with everyday people.

I would definitely not be happy with McLaren "Choosing" IndyCar and having to split Honda from their Dale Earnhardt in James Hinchcliffe. I am thinking HPD, Honda's
Motorsports Arm would have to be pushed into Stock Car Racing because they'd have the Customer Base here in America, but, I feel Honda would want Hinchtown and the Push for Pro Stock Racing and Pro Mod Racing Would be deeper on Honda and Toyota, even if the NHRA did not want that.

I am thinking major, high major or Major 1st Time Indianapolis 500s would really start the race again.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

What would Infrastructure Builds and Rebuilds Help Indianapolis Motor Speedway?

Other than the genesis of the Year Round Offices in the Mid 1990s getting built, especially when RCA Hightailed it, Blue Records and All, the Last Time Elvis was in Indianapolis, and Allison Transmissions was parsing jobs right and left, infrastructure runs are not always met well, especially if it is a change that is impactful.

And, I feel that there'd have to be more Picnic/Tailgating/Camping Space in the future, because, as I said in my earlier blog on this topic, like it or not, it is an ecosystem. In order for such moves to happen, it would be JOBS en masse.

Not just a few, not just Workfare, but, Jobs. Jobs would keep Indianapolis Special and not just forced down to an ultimate make or break goal. I would feel even though they'd like their celebrities, too, but, you couldn't just force down anything for anything's sake.

Museums and Living Museums would need room and space to breathe. Even though the gear grinding economy would hit PS, like not just not having money, but the inability to make it to the best of our abilities, and I hate to parse it further, but its chassises and engines closer to home.

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