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Originally Posted by doug_porsche
My info is dated, from 1994, but I bet not much has changed
In the grandstands it beautiful. Balloons rising, the singing of Back Home in Indiana, the cars, the excitement.
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I lived in Speedway, IN for a few years when I was a kid. About 1973 thru 1977. Whole different world back then. The drivers would stay at local people's houses or apartments. Gordon Johncock stayed in our apartment complex one May (in the building next to ours). Me and my Dad went out and talked to him in the parking lot.
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...
