Indianapolis 500: Recapping a Busy Opening Day at the Speedway

Mother Nature showed some respect for Opening Day at IMS, holding off the rain showers for the majority of the day.As I pointed my car towards IMS earlier this morning, I checked the radar a couple more times, hoping not to see any green. As I pulled into the speedway, there were clouds, but nothing was falling. Most of the guys I spoke to in the garage were really surprised by how nice the weather actually was today.There was about a 10 minute delay to the official start of practice, but that was just for some debris on the back stretch. That got cleaned up, and the cars were out on the track for nearly three hours before we saw any precipitation.There was some rain that fell late in the afternoon, but practice was able to resume around 4:...

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