2008 RedBull Indy GP - Race Day!

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

We watched the weather report on Sunday morning with great interest. On Saturday, the prediction had been for increasing clouds and thunderstorms, some heavy, through out the afternoon. They couldn’t have been more wrong as Saturday was hot and sunny all day. So when we saw the prediction of the remnants of hurricane Ike hitting [...]

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2008 Red Bull Indy GP - Saturday

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Saturday started out slightly overcast, but rapidly became sunny and hot. With all the rain from Friday, it also became incredibly humid! We did run into the strangest sight of the weekend, two cars parked next to each other from completely opposite sides of the automotive design spectrum. We couldn’t help but laugh at the [...]

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2008 Red Bull Indy Grand Prix - Friday

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

In a word. Ick. Here I refer to the weather, not the on-track action which was amazing. I never did make it to a Formula One race when the the USGP was at IMS, so this was my first time seeing the Speedway in its road course configuration. Looking at the track, the flow of [...]

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Road Racing Rules!

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

What a trip! Tab and I left from the west side of Missouri on Thursday night right after Tab got off work and started to head east. We stopped in Effingham, IL for the night before continuing on to Winchester, IN to visit my sister and her family. Being back in Indiana, we had to [...]

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