INDYCAR

Hey there. Mrs. CrankyBear here. I was a casual race fan growing up, but living in Indiana for four years made me love the month of May. As Tom mentioned, we started watching all of the races about 20 years ago now. I loved watching Dario Franchitti and then James Hinchcliffe. Yelled the loudest for Sarah Fisher though. Right now, I’m so happy that you never know who is going to win. (Okay, maybe not Ferrucci. 😁)

We watched F1 for several years, but this year’s “All Max, all the time” killed that. So we’re watching Indy NXT instead. Honestly tried to watch NASCAR, but it’s so damn boring.

It’s exactly 4 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 22 seconds until the most beautiful words in the world…

DRIVERS, START YOUR ENGINES!

P.S. Bonus points to you if you read all of this and know where my post title is from. 👍🏻

Not the most knowledgable Lemmy user. Hell, certainly not the most knowledgeable IndyCar fan for that matter. This not-a-subreddit/community (Lemmy)/magazine (kbin) is getting off to a not-atypical IndyCar ragged rolling start.

I've followed it steadily since my wife and I noticed around 2003 or so that we really liked watching the 500 and that maybe we ought to watch more of the races. Went to the 500 in 2007 as well as the last time they were at Kentucky Speedway. I've got some mobility issues (and don't really enjoy crowds), so I've had to be satisfied by whatever part of the race NBC (and ABC before that) deign to show between the same five commercials they show over and over and over and over and over.

I'm not aligned with a particular driver. I'm a regular listener of "Off-Track" so I'll always pull for Rossi, and I've liked Pato since he came in. But outside of Sting Ray Robb, it's not like any of them really annoy me. My wife can't stand Ferrucci, but he just reminds me of every cocky college student I ever taught. Plus I grew up in Houston and any association with AJ Foyt is a plus. I think it's the refinery fumes from Pearland.

So anyway, that's why I'm here. What about you?