Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Luke Graves (buyer1![]() |
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:40:12 -0700 (PDT) |
OK guys, I'll be that nobody on here can beat this: I first
heard Indy on the radio in 1947 when I was 12 years old! I was in the
barbershop when it came on and I went home to hear the end of the race.
Mauri Rose won in the Blue Crown Spark Plug Special. I think that it was
an old Maseratti!
Luke From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+buyer1=airmail.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Doug & Terri Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 10:21 AM To: Col Luke Graves Cc: 'The FerrariList' Subject: [Ferrari] Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Ferrari
goes Indy Car racing? Interesting – I guess Ferrari could sponsor a
Dallara chassis with a Honda engine. Indy,
despite its being one of the world’s premier races, has lost the magnet for THE
place to try new ingenuity. Pre-war, Ferrari did try Indy and failed to
qualify both times. So
once upon a time in the 1920’s the Indy track lay in obscurity and resembled
Bodie as a ghost town for race cars. It was rescued from oblivion by a WW
I flying ace who at age 30 had started his own automobile co with such
innovations as four wheel brakes, was subsequently gang trounced by the other
car manufactures, most likely because they all had two wheel brakes, went broke
at 37 and then rescued the Indy track. That
would have been Cpt. Eddie Rickenbacker. In
our life time we have seen two top end auto sports dumbed down, for good reasons
of speed safety: Top Fuel dragsters and of course Indy.
Ah
well – Indy was and still is THE place NOT to watch the race but to watch the
infield go nuts.
Although
I do miss the radio broadcast of Indy - - alas – that’s gone
too. DOUG
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- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing, (continued)
- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing clyde romero, April 23 2018
- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Luke Graves, April 23 2018
- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Luke Graves, April 23 2018
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Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Doug & Terri, April 23 2018
- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Luke Graves, April 23 2018
- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Clarence Romero Jr., April 23 2018
- Re: Ferrari goes Indy Car racing Doug & Terri, April 23 2018
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