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“This could be the last time I run Indy.”

“Winning the 500 is the last box I need to tick in my IndyCar career.”

“The easiest time of all is when I’m in the car, especially here. It’s easy to not care about anything else.”

There is beauty in the simplicity of the “Race Day Chic” attire. There is majesty, even.

“One does not wait to face Helio in competition. One simply enters a location where Helio is already competing.”

Of the food options at IMS, one vendor stated, “People get them for their dogs.”

Ed Carpenter knows how to put the magic combination together to qualify for his third Indy 500 pole.

“You can make a career out of anything.”

The weekend concluded with Will Power atop the podium, the third win at Indy in the fifth year of the event. Can you say dynasty?

The tune didn’t really take off in the major leagues until Chicago sportscaster Harry Caray began singing it in the 1970s.

Hot tip: They’re traveling in the opposite direction.

“You are strapping these guys on a piece of metal that is as fast as a tomahawk missile, and then you are expecting them not to have fatalities,” Coronado says. “Actually, I am surprised in the 17 years I have been doing this that we have not had more.”

IndyCar and the IMS are in a race for your attention. But, in the process, has the Indy 500 become more spectacle than sport?

“Is there any way?” he texted. “Without being creepy?”

What if we patched things up, us and you? What if we, you know, got back together?