RACE DAY !!!

Ladies & Gentlemen start your engines...... and the crowd goes wild!!!

These cars are racing at over 200 miles per hour and they are loud

This is our car on the race track this picture was taken as we crossed the finish line!! Our car never exceeded speeds over 30 miles per hour!!!

Indy 500 race is awesome!! This should be on everyone's "must do once in a lifetime list".

Our next stop will be College Park, MD where we report for our jobs in June.
Until then, stay safe, be happy, and stay healthy.......

INDY 500 FESTIVAL PARADE

This was one of the best parades we have been to. This is just a sampling of some the floats. As soon as I can figure out how to do a web album I will put more pics for those who want to see them. It did NOT rain on our parade today.

The big race is tomorrow tonight we PARTY!!!!

Miller Lite Carb Day 2007

Today was the Miller Lite Carb day, just in case you don't know ( I didn't and don't ask what I thought it was) carb means carburetor. Back in the day when the indy cars actually had a carburetor the race cars would go out on the track and run the cars and then adjust the carburetor until the car ran the way it should. This race 100 miles (40 laps).

It was a miracle that I was able to get this picture taken. These Indy cars go wizzin by at over 200 miles per hour, they are a blur. Nothing like NASCAR
These Indy cars line up in the garage area and are waiting for the signal to go out to the track so the race can begin.
This is a preview of the pace car that will be driven by Patrick Dempsy ( aka Mc Dreamy) on Sunday. Saturday is the big parade downtown and I will do my best to get some pic of the parade posted Saturday night. We are not having the best weather rain is in the forecast for the entire weekend.

Indy 500 Race May 25-28, 2007

The race officially starts on Friday, today we were allowed to wander around and we drove our own car around the track that was so cool, then we went over to the garage area and were able to talk to the drivers and see their cars and watch a tire changing competition.

This is a tire changing competition all four tires are changed in 5 seconds!!
This picture was pretty hard to take it took may camera longer to set up than it
did to change all four tires!!!

All four tires are on, and the process starts all over again, I can't believe that they are trying to beat their 5 second time. Well stay tuned tomorrow we move over to the camping area and then the fun shall begin. There is a concert on Friday with Kid Rock, we have front row seats to the kickoff parade and tons more stuff to do. I will post as many pics as I can.
Gentlemen Start your Engines!!! I wonder do they still say that?