Carb Day
May 25, 2007 in Racing
It’s time for that one last bit of practice prior to the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile International Sweepstakes. At the end of the day, what you’ve got is what you’ve got. The cars won’t hit the track again until Sunday morning when they line up the 11 rows of 3 on the front stretch. For the teams at the front of the grid, this one last bit of practice is just for fine tuning and a few systems checks. For the teams struggling at the back of the grid, it’s that one last gasp to eek that last bit of speed from their mount in their quest to get their driver’s likeness on that fabled Borg-Warner trophy.
The fast guys should have an easy day running few laps and just making absolutely sure that everything funcions as it should in race trim. The slow guys will be under a lot of pressure. It’s almost inevitable that the pressure will get to someone and thy will end up with their hopes dashed against the SAFER barrier, leaving the team with the monumental task of rebuilding the car by Sunday.
And once practice ends, it’s time for the pit crews to show their stuff. The pit crew competition is their chance at bragging rights after spending the entire month of May at The Track. The competition may not count toward anything on Sunday, but these guys want to show who’s the best of the best; the contest will be close, but at the end one team will get to claim themselves champions for a whole year.
Between practice and the pitstop competition there will also be the Freedom 100 for the Infiniti Pro Series and after the pitstops, Kid Rock will be in concert. All in all, it sounds like a tremendous day to be at the Brickyard, as it’s been every time I’ve had the luck to attend in the past.
Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to Carb Day this year; I’m on the Atkins plan.
I got tagged on this one by Chris (Hemphill81) at 
Yesterday I had the strangest thing happen. I was happily reading Slashdot while trying to look busy at work. No, that’s not the strange part. I do that all the time. I had just read a comment that pointed out that the backhoe was the natural enemy of an ISP. Just as I read this, I heard yelling from the office next to me that his email wasn’t working. That’s still not the strange part, that’s pretty much how someone initiates a “trouble ticket.”
I think I may have conditioned my son with a Pavlonian response. He’s almost two and he loves to watch 2 Stupid Dogs. I can’t blame him; I’m almost 38 and I love to watch 2 Stupid Dogs. The problem is that it’s on after his bed time. So I found the clips on YouTube and let him watch a couple on my laptop.