{"id":2352,"date":"2006-05-18T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2006-05-18T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T22:21:25","slug":"a_speedy_visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"A Speedy Visit to the “Honda Powered” Indy 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently had an opportunity to briefly visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway<\/a> (home of the Memorial Day weekend Indy 500<\/a> [satellite view<\/a>]) while the teams were practicing. A surprisingly large crowd was on hand to watch the drivers, mechanics and managers test their vehicles, systems and methods. Many, but not all teams had quite a number of computer operators keeping an eye on all aspects of their cars.<\/p>\n

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Silence.
There’s not much of that at the Speedway, but when it does occur – only a split second – it is jarring<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Danica Patrick<\/a> easily grabbed most of the crowd’s attention. A group of fans and photographers never left her team’s side. More photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You did read that right. Honda powers<\/a> all<\/i> of the cars in this year’s race. Evidently Honda has dominated recently and the teams coalesced on their engine this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently had an opportunity to briefly visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (home of the Memorial Day weekend Indy 500 [satellite view]) while the teams were practicing. A surprisingly large crowd was on hand to watch the drivers, mechanics and managers test their vehicles, systems and methods. Many, but not all teams had quite a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,36,19,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}