Brickyard 400

Brickyard 400



This weekend was our annual pilgrimage to Anderson and then on to Indianapolis, Indiana for a racing-filled weekend with the guys. What could be better then hanging out with your buddies, smelling rubber and exhaust and watching racing? LIFE IS GOOD, or so I thought


OMG… what a screwed up weekend of racing!


To start the weekend off on Saturday we watched the IRL race at BW3’s over some wings and beers. Boring!! HINT to the IRL: If a race is suppose to run 95 laps and runs out of time at 90ish laps that means either there were a lot of slow laps or too many cautions which translates to boring racing. LETS JUST RUN THE 95 LAPS for excitements sake. (We were waiting for the weekly Danica Drama)


Normally we go watch pavement late models at the Anderson speedway but they were running the USAC sprints so we opted to watch the Nationwide race at BW3’s. Yes, still at BW3’s, more beer, more wings! Good race even though Brett Rowe and my old team crashed out early. (Kind of miss the action but watching is the next best thing)


The low-light of the trip was Sunday’s Brickyard race itself. It was to be the highlight but we still had a blast. What were they thinking? Goodyear wrecked a great race with a bad tire. A yellow flag every 10 laps or so. Competition cautions they called them. Yep, they sure were not “racing” cautions (It kind of felt like Heat races on the local track) I felt bad for the pit crews since 15 pit stops in a race is a lot of work. The poor tire guy must have worn out his Intercomp tire gauge. Jimmy Johnson won so not all bad, but I do have a visual few observations:

It would have looked better if they had used colored racing tape when fixing the tire blowout damage to the cars.

Tires with 10 laps on them should not blow up during a burn out

Proper racing etiquette dictates you don’t stand for a large part of the race if it’s not exciting (if you paid for the seat use it)

But all being said it was still a BLAST

LIFE IS GOOD