Special Report: Live from Indy

Greetings readers!

Today is a special report about the Brickyard 400. What makes it special? Yours truly was in attendence for the event.

It was a shame that the event was marred with tire issues. It harks back to the Formula One race a few years ago. Competition yellows had to be called every ten or so laps to ensure that drivers didn't get puntures. From early on it was apparant tires would be an issue, with drivers diving into the pits under green early on.

Pole man Jimmie Johnson battled through it all to take victory. Despite the issues with the race, Johnson was the one constant, running up front all day.

Despite the issues, it was a great event. It's one thing to talk about racing, it's another thing to actually be there and feel it. All I can say it was an incredible awesome experience. The opportunity to go over to the race came extremely late last week and involved a number of plane hops just to make it. But it was well worth it.

Walking underneath the entry arch, the smell of food been cooked and venders selling gear. Drivers like Kvapil, Gilliand, Robby Gordon, Blaney were out signing autographs a mere four hours before they were going to go racing. Up to an hour before the race began, people with pitpasses were up and down the lane, getting a birds eye look.

After paying 90 dollars for a ticket, which must be in our around 60 Euros, I was situated no more than a stones throw from the track, right at the pit entry looking across at the #00 pit. The roar of the engines, the building of the crowd and the festivites. I struggle for words to describe it. Pictures will be up over the coming weeks when developed and scanned.

The experience went to show me how elitist it seems F1 is in regards to fan partcipation. The lenghts Nascar go through on raceday to give the fans a good deal is pretty astounding.

For me, it was an experience of a lifetime.