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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,465
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So many drivers talented drivers back in the Bobby Rahal era; a great mix of the old soldiers like the Unsers and Johncock, the current kings of the track like Mears and Tom Sneva and Emmo, and all the young lions like Little Al, Paul Tracy, Dario all hoping to grab the brass ring. The Indy 500 was something I looked forward to all month, and the racetrack did an excellent job of keeping interest in the race from the first of May to Memorial day. AutoWeek was a true weekly, printed on newsprint, and there would be plenty of fascinating information in my mailbox and after it was all over a great synopsis of the race. I was a big big fan of CART back then, and Mears was my guy. He drove all those beautiful Penske cars, and would just bide his time for 490 miles and see what he had left for those last 4 laps.
I still have a bunch of the old full-page Goodyear ads that were printed in the USA Today which showed a little color photo of all 33 drivers.
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