Official Danica Patrick takes the checkered flag at Indy, thread!!
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Wishful thinking but hell, who knows.
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Doubt that many flag kneelers will be in attendance at the brickyard!!
Aaron Rodgers might get engaged to her if this happens
The Indy 500 will be blacked out locally as it won't come close to selling out.
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Sellout is 400,000.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The surge from the 100th running continues.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles reported Tuesday afternoon that ticket sales for Sunday's 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500 attendance remain ahead of last year's pace for a race that drew about 300,000 spectators.
"We’re better than last year, and last year we were significantly better than 2015," Boles said of the 99th running, which attracted an estimated 220,000. "We’re not going to sell out, but it will be another really, really good crowd.
"Really from the renewal period on, we’ve been tracking ahead. And the past few weeks, we’ve been tracking way ahead. We had a really good spring."
Exactly. Not close to a sell out.
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Exactly what, Mark? First Indy sellout was in 2016. Only took 100 years.
INDIANAPOLIS– For the first time, the Indianapolis 500 was completely sold out. The record-breaking crowd packed the track last week to watch as 33 cars took part in the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”
As fans watched the race, a satellite captured a photo showing the massive crowd.
DigitalGlobe, who claims to be the world’s leading provider of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analytics, used their GeoEye-1 satellite to capture this incredible photo from the speedway from space.
The company says at least 350,000 spectators can been seen in the photo. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has not released any official attendance numbers from race day.
Burma Shave!
We are effing up each other's edits! We both suck. I say we envoke the 5 minute cool off rule : )
If am wrong based on your beliefs then I don't want to be right.
Anyways based on your daily NFL diatribes that attendance was in a free for all 2017 vs 2016 the same can be said about the INDY 500. So I was making the point that the INDY 500 sold out in 2016 and now it doesn't . Therefore attendance is down. Way down. Black out down. The only reason I commented on this as you made the leap that somehow this race is more American then the NFL. Professional football is the number one sport in America. Why? Because Americans friggin love it.
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
"""We are effing up each other's edits! We both suck"""
Truest line of week.
Have a good weekend. I am off for a couple days!
Attendance in some of the CART era races was rumored to be 500k+. Prior to the stands around most of the infield, nearly every vehicle parking there had a person or 3 in the trunk (not that I have any firsthand knowledge of this
).
Same Mark! Enjoy his glorious Holiday Weekend. I'm leaving Mexico City tomorrow and I'm looking forward to a long week end at home.
FYI The grandma line was outstanding. I'm stealing it
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
And I know you're both mostly coin guys, but in honor of the Indy 500, the earliest card depicting it I'm aware of (1931 Ogden's Motor Races) ...
And my favorite card of the greatest Indy driver of all time ...
I'll have do dig up my Danica auto'd photo.
I love racing. Been to Indy a few times in my youth. My last one I saw Al Unser win
Thanks for posting. Cool cards
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I've gone fishing a number of times and have yet to land a gefilte. They are a very elusive fish and tough to catch.
Next time out with my Zebco rod & reel, I'm going to try using a different bait to see if I have any better luck.
Is racecar driving even a sport?
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Here is how I judge it. It is was ever on Wide World of Sports it’s a sport
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Secret is , the bait has to be kosher
Off topic, but I am starting to really like those old cigarette cards. Even some of those non-sports cards are quite cool...and many of them are relatively cheap. Could be an interesting "sleeper" sort of investment as well.
Carry on.
I rarely laugh out loud at a post, but that was "spit take" funny.
Nomination for CU Sports Talk comedy post of the year...if there is such a thing.
To a Sunday win!
Is a designated hitter an athlete?
that works for me
There have been other women drivers, but most looked like Otto Graham.
My favorite was also A.J.
More so than someone who sits in a car for the entire event. A DH at least has to stand and swing a bat and occasionally run the bases.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Grote, taking 800 left turns at 200 MPH plus takes a bit more exertion than your morning drive to Krispy Kreme for day old crullers.
Don't have time for donut runs. That's what you old timers do so you can kvetch about today's tattooed young athletes and pine for the good old days.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
In the good old days, we had Cha Cha Muldowney (she looked nothing like Otto Graham).
Didn't Danica already prove she sucks at her sport by never winning in the good ole boy series, or whatever
they call it now.
I'm all for women trying to compete with men if possible, but it looks like she doesn't have the necessary talent.
its a gimmick , a hail mary to try to get 4 or 5 people to tune in to the most boring racing series's supposed premier event.
Indy car racing is the pro wrestling of the motorsports world. After this doesn't work they will probably get bobby the brain henon to smack some fool with a folding chair.
Apologies to Bobby if he is in fact dead
Geez...the hatred here.
AGREED
Maybe I'm against racing ,but that don't make me racist
I would think that would make you anti-racist.
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Ralph
current odds for her to win is 20 to 1 and finishes outside the top 10
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/2018-indy-500-odds-picks-lineup-advanced-model-says-danica-patrick-falls-short-in-final-indycar-race/ar-AAxNwSu?li=BBnb7Kz
I'll be watching and I sure would like to do 4-5 laps in one of those cars.
This is how I'd end up.....
Did that guy live ? Yikes
These buggies are remarkably safe now. Just stay away from the Uber car.
Man that looks like it could get painful.
For anybody that thinks race car driving isn't a talent.........try it sometime!
Video from that pic:
And Danica's racing career ends as expected, with zero wins.
As well as a wreck.
And congratulations to the race winner.
it was now or never!
Danica Patrick is the only woman to win a major motor racing event she won the Indy Japan 300 in 2008 at the Twin Ring Motegi race track.
Not so fast there, Electrode.
"""Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940[1]), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is an American auto racer. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles.[2][3] She won a total of 18 NHRA national events."""
True Shirley Mulroney won many drag races i should have mentioned an international motor racing event.
yes one with turns
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......