Bernie Lincicome says the Indianapolis 500 is no longer the greatest anything, if inarguably still a spectacle. There is no more tasteless, cluttered, loud, rude, self-interested, inhospitable place in sports.
I see by the ambulances lined up there in Turn 2 of the Old Brickyard, it is time once again for the Indianapolis 500, an American institution, as is, I might add, Arlington, the cemetery, not the Park.
Indy is not the sausage maker it used to be, and yet anticipating what can happen at 230 miles an hour when a human being hurtles into humorless barriers or goes twirling into traffic, so much blown debris at the mercy of the next ricochet, will draw a crowd, more than 300,000 so they say. Auto racing is the most sensual of sports. It assaults all the senses. It is louder than war, smells worse than fresh landfill, tastes like the wet end of a dipstick, feels like falling down stairs and looks like smeared paint.
We aficionados of auto racing applaud the courage of the men and the relentlessness of the technology that can combine to invent a machine that is absolutely worthless for anything other than driving around in a circle. The notion is exactly why the place still holds a fascination, still piles in the curious and the morbid, both for the same ticket price.
We understand that the Indy 500 is the great laboratory of the automobile, revealing useful secrets in the same way as does an autopsy, and often with the same tools. Never discount the contribution of the rearview mirror.
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