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Great work here, everyone involved - that's all I have, goodnight!!
Carpenter and Newgarden Have Mirror-Image Indy 500s
For Ed Carpenter and Josef Newgarden, it was the tale of two Indy 500s — one a mirror image of the other — and the story of how peaking at the right time is critical to winning the most famous race in the world. Newgarden and his team, Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing, started May practice for Indy...
The Hot Wheels car-jump thing last year didn't whet your fan whistle, Bill?
Also, I agree strongly w/ everything you wrote, for whatever that's worth. (Disclaimer: it is worth very little.)
Time to Step it Up, IMS
Universal and much deserved acclaim for Indianapolis in their hosting of the Super Bowl. Well done. Take a bow. Being from Iowa, which many consider the Ass-End of America, I'm always happy to see an overlooked city rise up and kick people in the face with its awesomeness. Local government repor...
Jesus that was phenomenal.
Dan Wheldon
I'm not sure what I am supposed to write, and that almost never happens ... The well deserved praised and tributes to Dan Wheldon's character and career are already flowing like a river, most from people who knew Dan much better than I and all much more eloquently expressed than I could muster...
I don't read IndyCar blogs very often anymore, but when I do, I drink absinthe and prefer that they be this well done.
Also, "I’m just some girl off the street who got lucky enough to drive race cars." *swoon*
♫ PIPPA FROM THE BLOCK! ♫
Pippa Mann Ready to Get Her Parabolica on at Loudon
When Pippa Mann climbs into her IndyCar this weekend at New Hampshire, she plans to start thinking “parabolica.” Ironically, the Ipswich, England, native who grew up driving nothing but road and street courses in Europe somehow developed at least competence on, if not an affinity for oval raci...
This is JUST like those "Messin with Sasquatch" ads, but far more real, because IndyCar just left a flaming bag of shit on NASCAR's doorstep & ran away laughing, except NASCAR eventually found them and was all like "That's not a prank -- THIS IS A PRANK!" and fired 27 short-range ballistic missiles right up IndyCar's ass, the end.
NASCAR Says "I Got Your $5 Million Challenge Right Here, Buddy."
OK, there might be NO correlation at all. It might be total coincidence that IndyCar is staging a $5 Million Insurance Money Challenge during its Las Vegas finale and NASCAR just announced a $3 million Sprint Summer Showdown. And monkey's MAY or may not be flying out of my ass right now ... N...
On the bright side, a 0.28 is still better than a 0.27.
IN YOUR FACE, WNBA on ESPN2!!!
http://www.wnba.com/2008numbers_080916.html
Long Beach IndyCar Race Draws Audience of 323,000
The Versus telecast of the IndyCar race in Long Beach drew an average of 323,000 viewers during the race itself, from 4:13 to 6:30 p.m. Eastern Sunday, according to figures provided by ratings-watching website, TVbythenumbers.com. The 2011 average audience was down 34% from the 2010 Long Beach a...
Firehawk just became the most glorious, ass-kicking, majestic bird OF ALL TIME. I don't want to sound unpatriotic, but I genuinely wish he was America's symbol. Bald eagles are neat and all, but I've never heard belt out such magnificence as this:
"And for the record, my natural aroma is quite amazing – I smell like cinnamon and habaneros."
/single tear rolls down cheek
//hums National Anthem
(There are no mountains left for you to climb, Sir Bill. None.)
Firestone Firehawk ... the Interview
Enigmatic. Helmeted. Red. Large-beaked. Deadly with a t-shirt air cannon. It's Firestone FIREHAWK, and he's going on record with pressdog about tweeting, t-shirt gunning, Cameron the IZOD Trophy Girl and and concerning anger issues toward geckos. WORD to the Firehawks PR operative Darla and th...
As Winston Churchill famously said, probably:
"Word."
Welcome to the Knife Fight, IndyCar
If you read business books about companies in crisis (or headed there), you kind of say to yourself, "IndyCar." At least I do. Symptoms: a recent history of flailing about for strategies, switching course often, unclear brand, employees going in 19 different directions. Not saying it's OVER fo...
Mmmmm, I do love me some freshly baked satire in the morning -- it tastes like PERCEPTION! (And also fried biscuits.)
IndyCar Headquarters Swamped with Balloon Enthusiasts
Indianapolis police struggled to clear an estimated 32 hot air balloon enthusiasts from the parking lot at IndyCar headquarter Wednesday after an apparent case of "miscommunication." "We had call from IndyCar that their lot was packed with fifth-wheel trailers and that some of the drivers were...
Whoa whoa whoa, slow down there, Mr. Purity Pants. EASY! Let's not take "snipers in the grandstands" off the table just yet.
/dreams
//drools
(Wonderful article. You, sir, are the League's Norman Mailer.)
IndyCar Greases up the Defib Paddles
You probably heard the impassioned frothing from the bloggosphere no matter where you were yesterday. Lucky dog! Curty Cavin says IndyCar will institute a version of NASCAR's "Lucky Dog" rule which puts the first car a lap down during any caution back on the lead lap. (Read Curt's story here.)...
Oh yes. THIS. A giant FUCK YOU to unsubstantiated, groundless hysteria, which I'll always support.
You've done the Lord's work here today, Bill. And also the Indiana National Guard's as well, probably.
Riot Police Briefly Surround IMS as People "Lose Their Shit" for No Apparent Reason
Indianapolis police briefly secured the massive Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wednesday after a group of Tweeters and bloggers "lost their shit" and tried to form a human chain at the main entrance to the speedway. "TONY GEORGE WAS APPOINTED TO THE BOARD OF HIS FAMILY COMPANY," one blogger screame...
Standing O, Bill. You too, Jack & Carmen & Sarah & everyone else who made this happen.
(INDYCAR post of the year? Umm, yeah. We're gunning for second, boys. And that's fine by me.)
IndyCar Team Experiences Role Reversal on Centennial Tour
Strange things happen when you pluck American civilians out of our convenience-filled and technology-saturated everyday life and fling them into a war zone thousands of miles away. Things like ... The supermodel gets inspired by the beauty of women whose morning routine focuses on boots and ...
Oh here we go. Back to this -- psshh -- exceedingly good writing & right proper journalism thing around here.
BOOOO!!!! Needs more ether and attempted murder!!!*
*needs no such things
Katherine Legge Explores Options, Feels Back Home Again in Indianapolis
Britain's Katherine Legge says America “feels like home” and hints that she may be planning an extended stay here in 2011. Legge is in town exploring the possibility of returning to American racing for the first time since 2008 when she left the Champ Car World Series. “I have to be a bit care...
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