Sunday, May 26, 2019

Indianapolis 500 Day - The Sunday Five


The premiere American auto race, is today, the Indianapolis 500.  This started as an endurance race, 103 years ago when driving 500 miles at any speed, let alone top speed was a major accomplishment.  Today it will run in less than 3 hours, at a top speed approaching 240 miles per hour, and an average speed of nearing 200 miles per hour.  The cars are built to be what they are, speed machines.  I have been to Indy a couple of times to watch practice and qualifying, there is something moving about standing there watching cars go by at over 200 miles per hour. 

1: How many times have you watched the Indianapolis 500? 
2: Have you attended any live auto race? 
3: If a rich uncle left you a-Billion-Dollars, would you spend any of it on racing? 
4: Have you driven over 100 miles per hour? 
5: Would you drive a race car for a lap on a closed track? 

My Answers: 
1: How many times have you watched the Indianapolis 500?  At least 40 - I smuggled a television into work one time to watch the race. 
2: Have you attended any live auto race? No
3: If a rich uncle left you a-Billion-Dollars, would you spend any of it on racing? Yes
4: Have you driven over 100 miles per hour? Three times, two of them legally in Germany. 
5: Would you drive a race car for a lap on a closed track? Yes, someday - (click the link for how to do this.) 

Your answers in the comment, please. 




5 comments:

  1. 1. Zero
    2. No
    3. No
    4. Yes, in a Impala station wagon in the desert.
    5. Hell No!

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  2. 1: How many times have you watched the Indianapolis 500? Never
    2: Have you attended any live auto race? No
    3: If a rich uncle left you a-Billion-Dollars, would you spend any of it on racing? Not a chance
    4: Have you driven over 100 miles per hour? No
    5: Would you drive a race car for a lap on a closed track? Nope

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  3. 1: How many times have you watched the Indianapolis 500? None. I live in the Indianapolis area, and it is blacked out for locals. I have listed to it on the radio a number of tes.
    2: Have you attended any live auto race? No, but I have visited the Indy track in off-season to tour the museum and take an escorted turn around the track in a mini-van.
    3: If a rich uncle left you a-Billion-Dollars, would you spend any of it on racing? Never
    4: Have you driven over 100 miles per hour? Maybe when I lived in Germany just to say I did. It's been so long ago that I can't really remember for sure if I did.
    5: Would you drive a race car for a lap on a closed track? No, but my husband would and has.

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  4. 1: not once; i forget it exists until someone reminds me it's this weekend
    2: no
    3: no
    4: no
    5: no I guess I am too timorous to play this one!

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