[terrehautian]

That was a great race, a church in town was offered the opportunity to display the flag for the race (since the military couldn't do it) as a fundraiser for a mission trip. I personally do not go to this church but did take them up on chance to do it. They bused us up there and among other things, gave us a ticket to the race. Here is the neat thing to me. The guys in charge of the flag needed 33 people to do something else flag wise. When they said that we would be holding flags next to the cars as the drivers were introduced, I got over in that group. When it came time to do the flag stuff, I went to my row (row 4) and waited. In the back of my mind I thought it would be neat if the driver of the car I held the flag for won. I ended up holding the flag for Tony Kanaan's car.


The race itself was pretty awesome (wish it could have finished under green), but the lead changes and relatively clean race was nice. I walked away from the brickyard 400 a few years ago with no desire to go back ever again, I have every intention on going back to the 500 again. The funny part I laugh about today was when Mario Andretti was in a golf cart behind the pit row stands, he floored it and went about 50' to the Honda racing trailer and slammed on the brakes. I thought to myself, once a racer, always a racer.

Another observation I made was that at Indy, I would venture to say 90-95% of the seats were filled. I was watching a video from the NASCAR race and they put a giant American flag over part of the stands (guess they couldn't sell enough tickets) to make it look like they are losing fans in the stands.