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Good morning from a cloudy and very muggy World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois; directly across the mighty Mississippi River from the famous St. Louis Arch. Based on what the radar showed around 6:30 this morning, it looked as if a long morning of steady rain was imminent. A storm system with red cells moved through Kansas City last night and appeared to be bearing down on the St. Louis area. The red cells expanded to large areas of dark green that were headed our way and looked certain to, at best, create a wet track for the only practice session of the weekend – scheduled for 12:15 CDT (available on Peacock). But within the last area, what didn’t dissipate headed to the south of us. At this point, it looks as if practice will take place as scheduled.

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After fans of the NTT IndyCar Series went four straight weekends with no races, we head into our third straight racing weekend. It seems that it is feast or famine. The stretch started two weeks ago with the Music City Grand Prix. Then last weekend was the IndyCar/NASCAR double-header weekend on the IMS road course. This weekend brings us the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from World Wide Technology Raceway (formerly Gateway Motorsports Park), just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.

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By Susan Phillips

I guess I don’t share the popular opinion of the hard-core IndyCar fan—I didn’t feel the same revulsion that many people felt about the Cup cars defiling the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I don’t look at the Speedway as a race, I don’t breathe in the smell of Ethanol fumes and feel the blood racing in my veins.

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They have been running stock car races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 1994, when the first Brickyard 400 ran in August of that year. Although the name, date and now format of that event have gone through several changes, the general public still refers to this as the Brickyard weekend. I have been attending the Indianapolis 500 since 1965, although I’ve certainly missed several of them in that time frame. Not until this past weekend have I ever seen stock cars on this track. I am not kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

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After a span of about ten and a half months, Will Power is finally back in the win column. After a very disappointing 2021 season that saw Will Power enter the Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix eleventh in points and winless after earning only two podiums on the season, Power showed his mastery of the 2.439 mile IMS road course with a 1.1142 second win over Romain Grosjean.

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By Susan Phillips

I’m so happy to be back at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway—I can’t say the temperatures here are not a lot different than being here in May. I’m still trying to be fully hydrated from last weekend—it was so much fun in our hometown, but there was a lot of walking. My legs are much shorter than George’s, so I have to take two steps for every one step he takes. He is very patient with me and has to wait for me to catch up, but I can feel my stamina coming back every day—or every track that we go to.

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Good morning from a very sunny Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The rain that was promised overnight barely showed up. We left the track at around 9:15 last night, and it sprinkled a little bit on us as we drove to the hotel. That appears to be all we got. It’s currently 70°, with a projected high of 83°. I would like to say that we enjoyed dinner at one of our usual spots, but we didn’t. Instead, we went got take-out at the Arby’s next to our hotel.

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