The Indy Racing League made a White House call Tuesday to meet with President Bush and talk about racing and ethanol. Indy 500 winner Sam Hornish Jr. presented the president with an autographed racing helmet and IRL CEO Tony George “shared a brief exchange” with Bush about ethanol, according to an IRL news release. The IndyCar Series is using a …
Ethanol Fuels Learjet 500
Jeff Simmons and the Ethanol Indy car started 15th finished 15th in the Learjet Bombadier 500 Saturday night in Fort Worth, TX – a nice clean race with only two cars out and no accidents. See the full race results at WhoWon.com. It was just nice to see the Ethanol car cross the finish line. Prior to the event, the …
Indy 500 Photo Album
I just uploaded most of the pictures I took during the Indy 500. Actually starting on the Thursday before the race. There’s 267 pictures in this Flickr album and I just don’t have time to label them all individually. If you really want to know who someone is let me know and I’ll try to identify them for you. I hope you like them. There’s another race today and we’ll be rooting the #17 car on.
Ethanol Night at the Races
Indy’s not the only race celebrating ethanol. Brown County Speedway opens for the season with Ethanol Night tonight. The racing season in Aberdeen, SD will run through Sept. 30. Aberdeen is the latest site chosen for an ethanol plant to be built by Glacial Lakes Energy.
Going Cross Country
If you liked our coverage from the Indianapolis 500 then perhaps you’ll be interested in some other events coming up that I’ll be blogging from.
Ethanol Wins With Car Out
Well I don’t have all the facts but the Ethanol Car hit the wall and went out of the race in lap 152.
The Race Is On
The race has started. After the first lap we had a two-car accident but no injuries and car #17 is looking good right now. After this post I won’t do any until after the race.
Pit Activity
Steve Dixon is the Team Manager for the Ethanol Car out here in the pits.
Garage Tour
We’re getting very close to race time here in Indianapolis.
Jeff Simmons Pep Talk
I know there’s a lot of focus here on Jeff Simmons but hey, he’s the ethanol ambassador of the moment at the greatest spectacle in auto racing.