![]() ![]() That’s the key: getting people to enjoy watching stock cars race at Indianapolis. "I am sure that there will be a lot of people that will enjoy it, but I won’t be one of them." "I remember the excitement and enthusiasm I had my whole life to go there and race on the oval, and now we are going to go backward down the front straightaway and race on the road course?" Harvick said. He’ll get to do it in practice Saturday, qualifying Sunday morning and for the 82-lap race Sunday afternoon. The race is 200 miles, half the distance of the 400, because of the time it takes to get through the 2.439-mile, 14-turn course compared to the 2.5-mile oval. CANT GET INDY500 EMULATOR TO START WITH MAC SERIES"I can’t imagine driving into Indianapolis and racing a Cup Series race on the road course." "I might throw up when I go in the tunnel," former Brickyard 400 winner Kevin Harvick said. For those who remember the pageantry of the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994 and the first 15 races for which NASCAR packed the enormous IMS grandstands, it’s difficult to know whether any part of the race this weekend has ties to the previous 27. Is it even right to call it the Brickyard when the NASCAR Cup Series competes for the 28th time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway but the first time on the road course, which encompasses parts of the famed oval as well as a meandering asphalt path that was part of a course initially designed for Formula 1?įor the record, the official name for the Cup race Sunday is the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard. Welcome to the 28th annual Brickyard 400. ![]()
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