[Dannypollock24]

Originally Posted by deannalynn Bear with me, I'm learning.

I suggest when you want to Know the Facts about Indy 500 the best man on Earth to ask is Donald Davidson and if you do meet him to get info you better bring a tape recorder and extra tapes because every detail about Indy 500 is in his head! He is a wonderful man!

Danny 24

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I don't know if I would base major decisions by what people write to papers or magazines....now message boards.....that is a whole other story.

[D.O.]

Russ I agree with you and at the time sprint racing didn't need those danger rear engine cars. They were death traps waiting to kill people back then at Indy Indy too. I even thought banning was the right thing back then but only for safety reasons.
In today's carbon fiber tubs with a 410 behind it that would be a good series to bring drivers as a learning ground but what tracks could you run them at? Winchester & Salem too rough. Anderson too small, IRP perfect size.

USAC tried the a V-6 version that was soon built and sold to Japan after testing here.

But the horse is out of the barn and that type of series won't happen.

The glory days of Indy was the final roaster years into the early rear engine days where MECHANICS built their cars the way the wanted with ideas about wind flow created over a beer and a ciggy then off to the metalsmith to beat a sheet of ALum into a nose, cowl or tail.
I was lucky enough to work with my brother building the Laycock Mongoose cars in a brick shop in Danville In. No engineers, no wind tunnels just a lot of bottles of vodka and orange juice and a big cardboard and pencils. Those were good days. Those days stayed good until cars started getting build across the pond by limeys and drivers came from towns other than Fresno, Ca.

Rember how the first day of qualifing there was excitement and the stand almost full around the track and Pole meant something. Poof those days are gone. Since they started nipping the balls off the eagles and March cars flooded the field the Indy 500 stopped begin great.

It's still the greatest race in the world for spec racers.

Just a few moving day thoughts.
D.O.