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By Susan Phillips

Earlier in the year George asked me where I wanted to go for a summer vacation. Being a beach girl, I began looking at beach vacations. The thought of ocean sunsets and walks on the beach was very appealing to me. Maybe I’ve been in a pensive mood and want to reflect on where I have been in the last year and where I am going in the future—and naturally being selective about places that give me strength and peace. Road America is one such place for me. It’s a place where I’d like to lie in the grass and look up at the clear, blue sky, and relax. Road America always comes in the IndyCar schedule just when I need it. We always had post-Indy 500 blues, but now that we have decided to make Road America part of our annual race schedule, it cuts some of the blues and gives us something very special to look forward to.

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It’s been another full day at Road America for us. It is amazing how quickly time flies here. With  the NTT IndyCar Series practice starting a little after 10:00 am, Qualifying at 1:30 pm and then the final practice at 4:30 –that’s a full day in itself. Then when we try to take in all that the track has to offer, the day can get away from you.

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We arrived at Road America around 9:30 this morning, but we wanted to get out and get situated at a decent vantage point for the IndyCar practice that was scheduled to start at 10:10 am. Therefore, we bypassed the media center and putting up a post.

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If your idea of a perfect day is sunshine, good food, cold beer and fast cars; then Friday at Road America would have been for you. I almost feel like every time we come here, it is like a broken record of superlatives regarding Road America– but how on earth could you ever tire of days like today?

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Welcome to a very damp, but drying, Road America. The temperature is roughly 70-degrees and the skies are sunny. That’s in serious contrast of the severe storms that tumbled through the area overnight at around 2:00 am. Our hotel is only about five minutes north of the track. We were both awakened from a deep sleep to loud thunder. It was the kind that was accompanied by the constant flicker of lightning.

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One reason our marriage works is that Susan and I are so different. I am a planner. Once a plan is in place, it is carved in stone as far as I’m concerned. Susan, on the other hand, values spontaneity. I’ve always thought that spontaneity was vastly overrated; mainly because it requires plans to change, and change is bad!

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Early Monday morning, Adam Stern of The Sports Business Journal reported that NBC Sports and IndyCar were close to renewing their deal for NBC to continue broadcasting IndyCar races and the Indianapolis 500. The timing was a little ironic, given that NBC was just coming off of a weekend where just about every fan was ticked off for one reason or another.

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