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Old 06-11-2024, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mgarblik View Post
I am a little embarrassed to say I had to look up Donald Davidson in the IMS musuem page!. I do have a couple coffee table books about the Indy 500. The book I got that info from has about 3 pages of highlights from every Indy 500 run to the time the book was published which was 2016 I think. When those 33 cars come down the front stretch for the green flag to start the race, it's the most exciting 2 minutes in motorsports IMO. The only other thing that comes close for me is night qualifying for the US Nationals in the fuel classes in front of a packed house. Thanks to Arnie Beswick, we were able to run in front of that same crowd a couple times in our Pontiac powered race cars. A gift I can never repay.
He was a savant when it came to Indy history. He would do the color commentary with all those type of arcane factoids and details, just off the cuff and completely from memory. Simply amazing.

Now - we have Google.

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