B&W at the Indy 500

I felt bad for the rookie mistake, but the overall race was a sleeper. It reminded me why I only watch Indy about once a year. NASCAR is so much more exciting. I had to laugh when it was "news" when a car got passed in the 500.

As far as I can tell from the pics I've seen the sponsorship was Bowers & Wilkins and Magnolia. So I gues B&W working along with Best Buy is working out quite well for both parties.

One car had Alex Tagliani who drove the #77 Bowers & Wilkins/ Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda.

Its a shame that Indy doesnt have fans like the hillbilly racers do. I will never get how driving a 4seat conversion car while bumping the rednecks around gets more fans than open wheel racers. Bumping and scraping is for children, real men race cars that if you touch, you might die! All the same good to see some AV sponsors, and yes the rookie has only himself to blame, lapped car was clearly staying clear.
Then the Coke race ends with JR. out of gas...yawns all around.

Part of the reason NASCAR has such a huge fan base is that it has always been a home grown sport compared to the world wide sport that Indy is. The old CART series was fun to watch, but ovals are only fun to watch when bumping is involved. The new Indy series only has a few road races and they are fun to watch, but the majority of the drivers really are not world class. Forumula One even got the the point that passing was so difficult that they went to the grooved tire to reduce traction.

I've been interested in watching the open wheel drivers take their shots in NASCAR. I'm a Juan Pablo Montoya fan and he's about the only one that's really been a success. AJ Almendinger (spelling?) is starting to be impressive as well. They are showing how difficult NASCAR really is. I do wish they had more road races.

Uh, Indy DID have a fan base almost as big as NASCAR. THEY screwed it up themselves with that IROC crap back in the 80's. Now the have to stoop to trickery ala Ms. Patrick to get noticed.