Indy 500

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T10:10:23-0400

rikkitikki08 said:
Congrats you’re indifferent to it, now fuck off and let people enjoy the sport.

Let him have his fun. It’s fine.

I do have a feeling Ferrucci has a good chance today. If he runs a clean race (big if) he’ll be there when it counts.

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T10:12:37-0400

Daly I think will run up front for a minute but his car always tanks

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T10:13:39-0400

Irish2155 said:
Let him have his fun. It’s fine.

I do have a feeling Ferrucci has a good chance today. If he runs a clean race (big if) he’ll be there when it counts.

its competitive which is always good
who was the guy Ashley Judd was married to?

FU BK · 2026-05-24T10:21:35-0400

Fucking ignore button just made these thread alot better. Fucking miserable fuck

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T10:33:48-0400

Looks like the rain will hold off.

FU BK · 2026-05-24T10:37:12-0400

Irish2155 said:
Looks like the rain will hold off.

Great....wife decided to start a landscape project yesterday

Irish#1 · 2026-05-24T10:38:40-0400

burmafrd1944 said:
the percentage that care is much lower. its obvious to anyone that takes an honest look
even the NFL and NBA is not as dominant when looking at percentages as they once were.
I did attend the Time Trials and WATCHED the race from 1969 to 1990. I watched it after that but never went. I stopped carring I think around the early 2000's.

Its no surprise; social media and so on; the internet; all of it
only a small percentage of them care about any one thing

Indy will never see that time again

It just is what it is

There’s hardly anything that hasn’t been effected by the change in the media, so your point is worthless. People from all over the world still come to the race.

I remember Foyt, Roger Ward, Eddie Sachs, Jimmy Clark, etc. I’ve found that people today are having the same connections with today’s drivers that they did back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

rikkitikki08 · 2026-05-24T10:38:57-0400

Irish2155 said:
Daly I think will run up front for a minute but his car always tanks

I totally agree, I just want the hometown guy to win and he seems like a solid enough dude

FU BK · 2026-05-24T10:41:18-0400

Irish2155 said:
Daly I think will run up front for a minute but his car always tanks

Literally anyone but a Ganassi driver for me.

Irish#1 · 2026-05-24T10:43:57-0400

rikkitikki08 said:
I totally agree, I just want the hometown guy to win and he seems like a solid enough dude

That would be nice, but I would love to see Helio get his fifth, but I don’t think his has the car to do that. Pato might be my favorite driver.

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T10:45:09-0400

Irish#1 said:
There’s hardly anything that hasn’t been effected by the change in the media, so your point is worthless. People from all over the world still come to the race.

I remember Foyt, Roger Ward, Eddie Sachs, Jimmy Clark, etc. I’ve found that people today are having the same connections with today’s drivers that they did back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

I sat behind the pits one year (Sarah Fischer’s pit to be exact)…

…dude behind me was from Brazil, to the left Japan, right Spain, front German, me…the good ole USA. Midwest hill billy per Toronto

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T10:52:17-0400

FU BK said:
Fucking ignore button just made these thread alot better. Fucking miserable fuck

The Irsay Y isn’t that far away. Maybe 10 minutes. Just saying. 😉

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T10:54:40-0400

$5 says Marcus Freeman is driving the pace car next year

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:01:00-0400

Irish2155 said:
I sat behind the pits one year (Sarah Fischer’s pit to be exact)…

…dude behind me was from Brazil, to the left Japan, right Spain, front German, me…the good ole USA. Midwest hill billy per Toronto

there was always interest from the hard core racing fans. Though NASCAR fans were always obnoxious, at least the ones I ran into.

Irish#1 · 2026-05-24T11:01:08-0400

Snake pit this morning.

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:01:50-0400

Irish#1 said:
There’s hardly anything that hasn’t been effected by the change in the media, so your point is worthless. People from all over the world still come to the race.

I remember Foyt, Roger Ward, Eddie Sachs, Jimmy Clark, etc. I’ve found that people today are having the same connections with today’s drivers that they did back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

the point is it matters to a smaller and smaller percentage of the people
try and claim otherwise

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:02:22-0400

Irish#1 said:
Snake pit this morning.

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not hot enough for any tits, right?

FU BK · 2026-05-24T11:04:46-0400

My dad got selected for Brickyard 400 tickets from the lottery they did. They did a deal that the next day, ticket holders for i think 20 years got to go drive on the track. Even as many times as ive been there, the enormity of being on track with grandstands everywhere was amazing. The turns looked a hell of alot more than 9 degrees of banking staring at the down the front and back stretch.

FU BK · 2026-05-24T11:06:32-0400

Irish2155 said:
The Irsay Y isn’t that far away. Maybe 10 minutes. Just saying. 😉

He said be watched Andy Granatelli, I dont beat up senior citizens. I'd probably get yelled at for parking my big ass truck over a line

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:07:24-0400

FU BK said:
He said be watched Andy Granatelli, I dont beat up senior citizens. I'd probably get yelled at for parking my big ass truck over a line

so you know who he was?

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:08:58-0400

The guy boasting about one in a thousand being at Indy?

for perspective, if your town had 20,000 people, that mean only 20 would show up for your event.

Not so impressive now, is it?

It was like one in 600 when I went to the Time Trials; which quite often drew 200,000 or so on the first day.

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T11:14:50-0400

I’ve asked this once already. What year?

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T11:16:32-0400

200,000 is a lot of people for a times trial day.

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T11:19:05-0400

Irish2155 said:
200,000 is a lot of people for a times trial day.

Where else do you get 200k?

It’s the fastest track in the world

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:30:49-0400

Irish2155 said:
Where else do you get 200k?

It’s the fastest track in the world

It happened a few time in the 70;s that I remember. Maybe the 80's. They liked to announce the crowd when it was big.

This only happened when the weather was REALLY good and no chance of rain. We went every year. Got rained out a few times.

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T11:33:36-0400

OlD Tony was someone that could clutch a penny so hard it would scream

I remember one year when they opened the track for qualifications at 5:55 and one car went out but did not try as it was not that fast. Tony used that to justify no rain check.
Funny thing about that, If I remember correctly, is that is if he had run and taken the time, he would have made the race because back then if you qualified on the first day, you could not be bumped from the race.

Irish2155 · 2026-05-24T11:37:51-0400

Angry small person.

ACamp1900 · 2026-05-24T11:45:46-0400

I think the nba i once enjoyed is dead and now mostly for mouth breathers, so I just don’t post in the basketball thread,… easy to do

burmafrd1944 · 2026-05-24T13:18:14-0400

Irish2155 said:
Angry small person.

need a time out card?

SeekNDestroy · 2026-05-24T13:19:30-0400

Tom Sneva taught me to drive.

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