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Indy 500 qualifying?
Unreal! Penske cars struggling to make the field? WTF??? Captain must not be pleased..
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Crazy how that track can change from day to day.
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Day to day, how about hour to hour?
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Some good story lines in the final lineup today.
Best news is to OLD MEN Kanaan and Castroneves are in the top 9. I would pay to see Spiderman climb the fence for #4 and who doesn't love T.K.?
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Congrats to Dixon he put down four smokin laps ! Would love to see TK pull off a win .
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I have to see this race live one day, love everything about it, must be an amazing experience to watch it from the stands
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Jimmy Johnson's words at the closing..warning us to not count the Penske cars out. Good advice...qualifying is one thing...the race is another.
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Look out! Woman majority owner and driver made the field.
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Good to see Simona de Silvestro make the field also. She can drive, and I hope she does well.
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The most complicated qualifying in of racing.
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Remember about 30 years ago the Penske cars were slow and couldn't make the show. They packed and went home early.
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The speed is unreal, the sound is mesmerizing, and the cars look sublime in the speedway configuration.
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In the grandstands it beautiful. Balloons rising, the singing of Back Home in Indiana, the cars, the excitement. But, again this was in 1994, outside the speedway, a big party. Think Madi Gras without the costumes but all the alcohol. A lot of fun, but not what the network TV, or the chamber or commerce wants to shown. And the track is really really big. I was about 1/2 way up the grandstands at the apex of turn 4. From my seat I could see the cars exit turn 3 and they would disappear again about 2/3 the way down the front straight.
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 We could hear the cars from my house and see the balloons. As a young kid I was mesmerized. As an adult, I am still mesmerized. I have also had the awesome experience of racing at Indy, albeit on the road course. Screaming down the front straight and feeling that little "bump-bump" as you cross the yard of bricks at speed is so cool... 
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Congratulations to the now four time winner of the Indy 500 .
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What a great race, won by the master himself. He had them covered and maybe a bit lucky with the last tangle of traffic at the very end.
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I wasn't a fan all of those years with the Penske dynamo, but that win was beautiful to watch on so many levels. Great year for a master...Rolex and Indy. He's up there with Mario and AJ now in my estimation.
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That was a fun race to watch. Great to see Helio do it, again.
Go Honda!
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