Perhaps because they figure no one on the West Coast follows the Indy Racing League until the week of the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, there is a veritable tidal wave of driver profiles on the news wires. Pick your favorite.
Andretti 3.0 - San Jose Mercury News
Spiderman - Sacramento Bee (referred to as “Spiderman”)*
Invisible Man - LA Daily News
Boulder Sam - Inside Bay Area
Mirror Man - IRL-Live
Danica! - Marin Independent Journal
The Rainman - Vallejo Times Herald
Well Done - Milton Keynes Today
*I don’t mean to infer that I created the nickname, because clearly I did not. I just get excited whenever I see any driver referred to by some identifier other than his/her name. Those other identifiers are the reason fans know Spiderman and Danica!, but they wouldn’t know Jeff Simmons from Jeff Bucknum. As I’ve said before: IndyCar fans cheer for people, not paint.
Random Thoughts on Barber
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Of all the IndyCar race weekends we have spent at Barber Motorsports Park,
this weekend may have featured the best weather of them all. For once, it
did no...
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