Alex Palou will pace the field to the green flag for the Sonsio Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon. Palou put down a lap of 1:09.0004, which was almost a second faster than Christian Lundgaard – who will share the front-row with Palou. This was after Palou ended up in the grass just a few laps earlier.
Well, we almost made it. We were pretty much running on time, but as we were on our way to The Workingman’s Friend, we got caught behind a slow train that lasted for quite a while. By the time it moved on, The Workingman’s Friend was packed!
For the past nine days, we have been living nostalgically in the Month of May. I’ve spent the past several days listening to old episodes of The Talk of Gasoline Alley with Donald Davidson, as well as new nightly episodes of Trackside with Curt Cavin and Kevin Lee and Beyond the Bricks with Jake Query & Mike Thomsen. I’ve also subjected Susan to random videos covering the past 80 years of the Indianapolis 500. Well, the Month of May gets real starting today.
As most of you know, I live by the mantra “Change is Bad”. In March of 2019, John McLallen and I did our last One Take Only for about three years. So Paul Dalbey of Fieldof33.com and I decided to do a video blog that combined our two sites – Hence the ultra-clever name Two Sites Unite.
It’s time once again for a May tradition on this site – the 2024 Oilpressure.com Trivia Contest. Not much has changed because, well…you know – Change is Bad!
By Susan Phillips
It’s hard to believe this will be the 20th year I will be attending the Indianapolis 500 with my son, Eric. Hard to believe that time has gone by so fast. I think of that middle school kid with braces that first year that began the streak in 2004. That was the year of the tornado after the race and I figured he would never come back. Instead, it was a the start of a love that would last over 20 years, hopefully. Lucky for him Tony Kanaan has been racing for 22 years, as he has been a fan ever since Kanaan won the Nashville race in 2004. He has a die cast of every car that Kanaan drove until his retirement. I don’t know what he will do this year. Who will he root for his year?
Last week, we lost another popular Indianapolis 500 driver from my childhood. Wally Dallenbach was a rookie in the 1967 Indianapolis 500 and his last appearance on the track was in 1981, after he had already retired and was in his tenure as Chief Steward for CART. Dallenbach passed away last Monday April 29 at the age of 87.
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