By Luis Torres, Staff Writer
When it comes to the Indianapolis 500, the pageantry, the drama and intensity is unrivaled. The field of 33 brave men will look to escape the madness and be the one who’ll earn the glory that comes with winning The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Close to a full crowd for the first time since 2019, there’s a lot of anticipation and storylines that’ll take lengthy conversations to fully grasp what Indy means to the drivers, teams, personnel, media and fans alike.
Among those are the blistering qualifying pace last weekend which saw Scott Dixon break Scott Brayton’s four-lap average pole run set in 1996. The 2008 Indy 500 champion became only the second driver to reach the 234 mph average barrier (joining Arie Lyuendyk’s 1996 four-lap average track record) at Indianapolis as he’ll lead the field to green for a fifth time.
Since The Month of May on the oval kicked into high gear, it’s been Chip Ganassi Racing’s yard. Managing Director Mike Hull has been pleased with the entire organization with all five cars poised to be contenders in the 200-lap see-saw madness.
“It’s been fantastic. You know, if you look at the 12 hours of track time that we had, maybe less than that, 10 hours of track time that we had available to us to this point, we probably achieved on track maybe 25 percent of that,” said Hull.
“So if you kind of look at the ratio, I think that’s where everybody is at, but we’ve had — we’ve got great race cars for the race. The wind is up today. The boost is going up. So we’ll find out what qualifying is all about.
“I like — Chip made a statement to somebody at a high level when we were racing kind of a big race called Le Mans a few years ago, and they said, oh, this is really great. We’re going to try to win the race.
“And he said, ‘yeah’. But you have to realize that a thousand things can go wrong and only one thing can go right. That’s exactly what…
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