Date: A quick map of the track layout and the turn numbers. Some of the pictures below refer to the turn numbers, so I thought I'd include this to provide a better sense of where things were.		Date: 2006-07-01 09:26:11 In the Indianapolics Motor Speedway museum. Dunno anything about this car, but it was too pretty not to be photographed. Plus, being a Ferarri at Indy, it had a better chance of winning the race than a couple of the weekend's entrants.		Date: 2006-07-01 09:28:58 The left front wing from Danica Patrick's 2005 Indy 500 car (she tore it off during the race).
	Date: 2006-07-01 09:30:30 Part of the Tony Stewart memorial they have going right now. This is the car he drove in the 1999 Coca-Cola 600 (see pic below for significance of that)		Date: 2006-07-01 09:31:04 The midget Tony used in 1995, the season he won USAC's triple crown.		Date: 2006-07-01 09:31:53 Just fulfilling a promise to a friend. Nothing to see here, move along.
	Date: 2006-07-01 09:33:33 The sprint car used in the 1995 season.		Date: 2006-07-01 09:33:57 The car Tony drove in the 1999 Indy 500. In this car and the Cup car above, he became the thrid driver (behind John Andretti and Robby Gordon) to compete in both races on the same day.		Date: 2006-07-01 09:44:21 The Parnelli Jones driven, turbine engined car.
	Date: 2006-07-01 09:45:37 The Pratt & Whitney badge from the engine of the previously pictured car. How cool is that?		Date: 2006-07-01 09:48:47 Janet Guthrie's car. 'Nuff said.		Date: 2006-07-01 09:51:47 The number 5 car driven to third place by Nigel Mansell in 1993, probably moved to that spot as a nod to the F1 fans. Behind that is the car Tony Stewart won the 2005 Brickyard 400 in.
	Date: 2006-07-01 09:52:00 "Show us your Lolas, they're one of a kind"		Date: 2006-07-01 09:53:03 Ah, the Foyt coyote, one of the ugliest cars ever...		Date: 2006-07-01 09:54:04 Cool Foyt Coyote badge
	Date: 2006-07-01 09:55:21 'Nother Foyt Coyote badge		Date: 2006-07-01 10:26:53 Begining of Practice 2. Fernando Alonso in turn 12 (coming onto the south short chute on the oval).		Date: 2006-07-01 10:35:23 Scuderia Toro Rosso's Vitantonio Liuzzi in the chute between turns 10 and 11. STR has the coolest livery in the series in my opinion.
	Date: 2006-07-01 10:41:25 McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen.		Date: 2006-07-01 10:45:22 BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.		Date: 2006-07-01 10:47:56 Liuzzi again, with Red Bull Racing's David Coulthard in the background entering turn 10.
	Date: 2006-07-01 13:10:10 Beginning of Qualification! Ferarri's Michael Schumacher entering turn 3. In the background is Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella entering turn 6. This picture gives a nice sense of what we were watching during the race, though these are a little higher up when I took these. Even beyond Fisi in turn 6 you can also see turn 7 in the extreme upper left of the photo		Date: 2006-07-01 13:11:33 Kimi between turns 2 and 3 during qualifications		Date: 2006-07-01 13:12:09 Scuderia Toro Rosa's Scott Speed, first American F1 driver to compete in his home GP since Eddie Cheever in 1989, and first American in the series at all since Michael Andretti in 1993. Of course, he wrecked in turn 2 of lap 1. *sigh*
	Date: 2006-07-01 13:14:51 Midland F1's Christijan Albers. Nice shot of the chute between turns 1 and 2.		Date: 2006-07-01 13:41:51 Renault's Fisichella coming out of turn 2 followed by BMW Sauber's Heidfeld		Date: 2006-07-01 13:43:02 Alonso followed by Schumacher. Unlike most races this year, it was an oddity to see Alonso in front.
	Date: 2006-07-01 13:44:17 Ah, there we go. Schumacher in front of Alonso. And it stayed that way for the rest of the weekend.		Date: 2006-07-01 13:45:26 Schumacher followed by Alonso followed by Massa's second Ferarri off of the front stretch of the oval and into turn 1 of the road course.		Date: 2006-07-01 13:45:54 I can't tell who these are for sure. I think it's both Hondas and both Saubers, but who knows. Just thought it was a cool shot of traffic entering turn 6.
	Date: 2006-07-01 13:46:01 Yay Kimi! Toro Rosso may have the coolest livery, but McLaren has to be second.		Date: 2006-07-01 14:39:42 These are cars from the Indy Pro Series support race. They are coming around turn 6 (in other words, this shot was taken from the stands in the background of the last picture). The 42 is Graham Rahal, son of Bobby Rahal, trying to catch the eye of the F1 guys. He's 17 years old right now, and odds are that he'll be living in Europe next year competing in GP2 (the F1 feeder series). Despite dominating most of the race, he screwed up a restart with a few laps to go and ended up finishing second to Alex Lloyd, driver of the also-shown 26 car.		Date: 2006-07-01 16:43:29 And yet another support series. These are Formula BMW cars. I don't know anything about these cars but according to my entry list the cars shown are driven by David Garza, followed by Joel Jackson and Scott Schroeder. Fun fact, the #2 car in this race was driven by Frankie Muniz, portrayer of "Malcom" from "Malcom in the Middle". We left before this race ended, but he was moving up in the field when we left.
	Date: 2006-07-02 11:33:47 Race Day! All the drivers did a parade lap in these classic cars. I think it would have been a lot more fun if they had been driving them themselves. I'm just saying... This is Scuderia Toro Rosso's Scott Speed and Vitantonio Liuzzi.		Date: 2006-07-02 11:33:49 Speed and Liuzzi again.		Date: 2006-07-02 11:33:54 McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya (who I just learned is headed for the Ganassi's #42 Havoline Dodge in NASCAR. whodathunk?)
	Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:03 MF1's Tiago Monteiro and Christijan Albers		Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:07 Ferarri's Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa. Word on the street is that they were a little pissed about having to squeeze into this clown car.		Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:21 Toyota's Ralf "marsha marsha marsha!" Schumacher and Jarno Trulli
	Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:28 Honda's Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button.		Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:37 Williams' Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber.		Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:47 BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld and Jacques Villeneuve.
	Date: 2006-07-02 11:34:58 Super Aguri's Takuma Sato and Franck Montagny. I'm not sure I've ever seen a photo of Franck Montagny before this one. Good God, look at that man's forehead. He looks like an outtake from a Devo video...		Date: 2006-07-02 11:35:07 Renault's Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella. I had thought Alonso was Spanish, but apparently he's Hawaiian.		Date: 2006-07-02 11:35:00 Panorama of our view in the North West Vista. This is actually a little higher than where we were sitting. I went up to take the above driver pics over the catch fence. You can see turns 1 through 4 in this pic. Many pixels had to die to bring you this information.
	Date: 2006-07-02 13:10:23 So yeah, 7 cars ate it on the first lap in turns one and two, including both McLarens (who I was rooting for). I didn't get any good photos of it (none that would look good in reduced size here), but I got a couple that look like a junk yard, 3 or 4 lifters carrying cars off at once. That's Christian Klien's Red Bull car in the foreground there. I think they're going to have a tough time getting that alignment problem cleared up on the left front. That's Franck Montagny's Super Aguri behind it, lined up pretty as a picture. They're actually sitting on turn 4 of the oval, right in front of the drivers coming down the front stretch before they hit turn 1. Someone behind us said they lined them up there as a warning for the other drivers.		Date: 2006-07-02 13:10:50 Everyone say hi to Kimi's car. I don't know what that is in the cockpit. It looks like a McLaren front wing, but you can clearly see that Kimi's car has its intact. I think it must be Juan Pablo's, which I find hilarious considering they actually hauled JPM's car away to a different part of the track.		Date: 2006-07-02 13:11:41 Mark Webber's car getting set down.
	Date: 2006-07-02 13:12:04 Mark Webber's car again. So pretty. So broken. At least we had something to look at while Michael Schumacher beat the remaining cars like a rented mule.		Date: 2006-07-02 13:12:23 Kimi's car agin, at its final resting place. Yep, that's definitely Juan Pablo's front wing.		Date: 2006-07-02 13:13:53 Christian Klien's car again. Apparently the lineup in front of turn 1 was just a temporary warning for the other drivers.
	Date: 2006-07-02 13:14:07 Franck Montagny's Aguri again. Doesn't it look lonely?		Date: 2006-07-02 13:19:48 Ah, that's better, there's its mate, the Aguri of Takumo Sato. I would say that Aguri Suzuki got an upset stomache seeing that, but fortunately he's used to it. Not more pics after this. Schumacher won the race, but Kimi was already blind drunk by that point and Juan Pablo was apparently on the phone w/ Chip Ganassi. Sant and I hoofed it back to the car and git. Great weekend!