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Of all the drivers entered to compete in this years' Indy 500 Ed Carpenter is by far the guy we'd most enjoy watching win it.
Several reasons. Not the least of which are that we had the honor of watching Ed strap his ass into a USAC Silver Crown car at Du Quoin, Springfield and the Indiana State Fairgrounds dirt tracks. Showed up in Tulsa a couple of times and gave The Chili Bowl Nationals a try and drove a midget at the scary fast joints of Salem and Winchester. Second: by all accounts EC is a good guy.
We were very disappointed when EC got crossed up with Hinchcliffe in turn #1 back in 2014 at The Speedway. You could see that whole deal materializing down the front straight. I think Bell was in on that deal, too, but IIRC he came through unscathed.
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Silver Crown Championship Dirt Cars properly driven on a one mile dirt track are classic poetry in motion. Using that analogy, Jack Hewitt is one of the greatest poets of all time.
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