It was great to see so many of you in the splendor that is Turn 3 on Sunday. As a few days have passed, I think I’ve finally pieced enough hazy memories of the weekend together to constitute fine literature.

While old Flash typically hates the study of sociology (as well as speaking of oneself in the 3rd person), he’s electing to do both today in the first-ever study of the different groups in each seating area of the track.

With the resurgent popularity of the Indy 500, and the influx of new fans that the VERSUS television contract has brought to the race, I thought it appropriate to introduce to the first-time 500 visitors the types of degenerates, heathens, and track rats they will surely come across at the Speedway. Of course, I could just [...]

With the IndyCar season officially underway, your resident “maintainer of public nuisances” cannot help but look longingly to the Streets of Long Beach. You see, this is technically IndyCar’s first run in the LBC since 1995 when Snoop was just breaking onto the scene with a certain Doctor. Damn near all of the luster has [...]

  So I know I’m really late to this idea of an IRL reality show. In fact, the Pagoda as a whole is late. Robin Miller has been talking about this for years. I can only assume that people have stopped listening to him.  

  After seeing ESPN’s pathetic clutch at drumming up excitement by pulling the mildly intriguing TJV/VS (Tirico-Jackson-Van Gundy/Vitale-Shulman) switch of an NBA broadcast team calling an NCAA game, and the caricature-of-his-former-self calling an NBA game … I started harkening back to some of the ill-fated marketing attempts on the IndyCar front.  I don’t want to say [...]