Parakeet Jones

I think Kanaan is still good enough to get the job done. I worry about his team though, especially with Chevy struggling this year. I think Dixon is the man to beat.

Great job, Marco. It would be cool to finally see an Andretti in victory lane again.

I think it makes for a better race when Honda is strong. It balances out the strength of Penske.

NBC has an 1.5 hours of pre race coverage so I’m sure they’ll try to do as much as they can of the normal stuff. I haven’t heard anything official though.

I invited a few friends over to watch. I debated watching it alone because when I get together to watch the Super Bowl with this same crew we talk so much I’m not as focused on the game. In the end I think I’d be miserable sitting there alone focused on not being there.

I have been looking at the speed charts and find it very depressing. It’s really starting to hit me that there is going to be a 500 Sunday and I won’t be there.

Official - no fans this year.

I’m in the Southwest Vista in turn one. I got a parking pass in the main lot just across 16th St. I’m trying to figure out what 25% capacity traffic will be like.

I called the track today and was able to get a parking pass in the lot directly across from my seats. They said they had not updated their inventory of parking passes online yet after handling refunds on them for people not using them.

I think you might still be able to buy GA tickets. I think they cut off the selling of grandstand tickets last Friday. I’m going to have to get a parking pass if the buses aren’t running. I dread the thought of driving to the race, but maybe with only 25% attendance it won’t be so bad.

My reassigned seats are two seats down from where I was. It looks like they might have cancelled the shuttle buses though.

“Hail to the Football Team” just doesn’t have a great ring to it.

IMS announced today attendance would be limited to 25%.

I teach in one of those three districts and I can tell you that JCPS postponing students coming back in person has stirred things up even more.

The schools in Louisville announced they are doing the first six weeks virtually. I teach in the district just across the river. So far nothing has changed for us. They’re a much larger district so I’m sure that factors in.

The only thing I’ve seen is the email I got asking if I wanted to keep two tickets for this year or apply credit toward next year. I opted to keep my two. I lurk an INDYCAR forum and I’ve not seen any mention of that. I’m confident it would have come up there. Mods, would it be possible to drop “2019” from the thread title since we are using it to discuss this year’s race?

I’m kind of torn on this whole Vic thing. To be perfectly honest, if he doesn’t end up resigning with the Pacers this will retroactively upset me a whole lot more. I’m not saying my feeling that way is right or wrong, it’s just where I’m at as of now. I might change once the I think it over more.

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I posted the above a little earlier in the thread.

Race to be run at 50% capacity. I got an email from IMS stating I should be able to get seats close to my regular ones since I only get two. Everyone is limited to two tickets, so if you normally have a group of 20, you have to figure out which 18 folks you’re going to mess over. At least I will have some room to spread out for once.

School board for the district I work in approved a revised calendar tonight to be preemptive against a second wave. Our two week fall break is now eLearning as is the two days before and the week after Thanksgiving. We are off most of December.

I like Robin Miller, but he dropped the ball by not asking the follow up question, “All fans or a reduced number?”

I’m getting pretty nervous about the 8/23 date with the announcement that the state fair has been cancelled. The final day for the fair was to be 8/23. I got an email from IMS today about the announcement that no fans would be allowed to the GP or Brickyard on July 4 weekend. In it they said they still plan on the 500 going on with spectators, but like I said, today’s state fair announcement has me nervous.

If they can’t on 8/23 I hope they postpone to 10/3 to give it a bit more time. IMS already has that date set aside for a second road course race so the schedule would work out. The weather should be better in theory too.

NBC is showing last year’s at 2:00. ESPN2 is showing condensed versions of 2006, 2011, and 2014 starting at 3:00. It has been a strange day for sure.