The Brickyard 400 at Indy ~ No Identity Crises Here

by: Carol Bell

I was sitting in church this morning and a friend asked me what I was going to do this afternoon?  After a very long moment, I started to laugh and told her I was going to go home and write a column about a race I didn’t even want to watch.   She had absolutely no response.

For a short period of time I did write about NASCAR.  At the time I felt I had something to say, but after 123 columns there wasn’t much left for me to opine about.  There was one race though that I didn’t write about.  That race conflicted with my trip out to Reno, Nevada where I immersed myself in Hot August Nights, an amazing gathering of over 10,000 vintage cars surrounded by appropriately, nonstop rock and roll oldies.  No one needed my input about the race and frankly they wouldn't have wanted it.  Besides, if you want great cars where else would you want to be but Hot August Nights?

I’m sure by now you've figured out the one race I’ve yet to write about is the Brickyard 400.