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That's the good news, the other news is that
he was almost the only one there. That'll change today (Friday) as they
start bringing in the cars for ROP/Refresher tests. Here's a couple quick
load links, the Indy
10-day, and weekend
weather. Dennis will shoulder the bulk of the coverage during our
favorite and best three weeks of the racing season, but I will join him
when the bulk of the field hits the track on Tuesday. I'll only be there
through Fast Thursday, then I will return two weeks later on Community Day
for the remainder of race week. For those of you wondering what it looks
like at IMS three days before opening day, here's some pictures from a day
so beautiful that you can only wish they were out there runnin' around,
but not the way they are shown below...
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They might not be running very fast at IMS
today, but they will be tomorrow... Just another beautiful day at IMS,
wish I was there...
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Dennis may have gotten inside an empty MTP
garage, but the TCGR people have the most closed-door operation at IMS.
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Inside the TCGR garage at IMS, that would be
a Scott Dixon Dallara Honda, I can't see a "T," so it should be
a brand new car.
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The sun's shining, it's shirt-sleeve warm,
I'm afraid there will be days in the next three weeks where we'll long for
this kind of weather.
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In five days this lot will be full of
transporters, and the tent on the right will be used for preliminary tech
inspections.
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This is what is known as the "back
gate," it will be a very busy place for the next few days as the
teams arrive to download into what will become their garage area home for
the next three weeks.
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This is a view from inside the Marlboro Team
Penske garages that few people other than team members will ever get to
see. This is the traditional Team Penske location, they have been there
for years. When Team Penske didn't run at Indy for a few years, teams like
Pagan Racing occupied the space, but when MTP returned full time, they got
their old home back. There's been a bunch of Indy 500 winner's that came
from these garages. With MTP not located in Indy, I don't know if they
still store their Indy gear in an old storage trailer as they did several
years ago, but that's the way it used to be done. It was a strange sight,
having a bright and shinny Penske truck pulling a rusty and not to clean
trailer into the garage area to offload the "furniture."
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Danicaville (sorry, I
couldn't resist), these garages will host the three Rahal Letterman Racing
teams of Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice (he gets top billing, he's been with
the team the longest), Danica Patrick and Jeff Simmons.
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All O/IRR photos on
this page by Dennis Sylvia.
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