Indy 500 Memorial Day Weekend Open Thread

YEAH! Crack open a brewski and let’s get RACIN’! This is an open thread, but not for football.

OK, you can use it for football if you want to — the U20 World Cup continues today, and there’s the final week in Serie A as well, including a relegation battle that could see Empoli or Genoa relegated.

But it’s Memorial Day Weekend here in the colonies, and you know what that means — THE INDIANAPOLIS 500, 103rd edition, the greatest spectacle in racing, the pinnacle of Indy Car sports. F1 fans — the Monaco Grand Prix is also this weekend, but screw that, this is an American blog and I live in Indiana. Let’s talk Indy.

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