Sheesh, Patrick, keep your priorities straight...you mean, you'd
rather be at Indy than the Oakland Coliseum? :-))
What a treat!
--Pat Kelly
Patrick Jones wrote:
> Thought I would share with you some of the totally awesome times I had
> this past weekend at the 500.
>
> Bradley Motorsports teamed up with CAN and we were the main sponsor of
> #12, driven by Buzz Calkins at this years race. I had four days of
> full pit and garage access along with viewing the race from the new
> suites above the new garages built for F1.
>
> This was my first Indy and what a treat. I had tweleve laps around the
> track in the pace car with Anthony Edwards, James Garner, and Parnelli
> Jones driving. I had dinner with AJ Foyt, met Johnny Rutherford, and
> sat at the bar with Bobby Unser. I was on the grid when the cars came
> out for the start of the race and saw the **intense** looks on several
> of the drivers faces. I was standing on the yard of bricks when the
> order came, "Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!"
>
> At that point, 200,000+ fans and 33 - 650HP V8s made a noise I will not
> soon forget.
>
> Watching Buddy Lazier try so hard to catch the amazing Juan Montoya -
> wow. At the end, I took a golf cart and ran around the new F1 track
> that will host the USGP on September 24 this year. Buzz finished the
> race with 194 laps and 18th place. The car looked like it had been
> sand blasted. ESPN and ABC had coverage of the Team CAN car, and we
> hope to be back in "The Show" next year.
>
> Now, if I can keep those g-Force's from wearing out on the Neon...
>
> patrick
> 98 Neon ACR
> 98 Viper GTS-R #33
>
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