Dave L?

[Rick Jones]

Dave L are you still out there? Can the merger be the key to getting you back to your beloved Indy 500 after such a long absense? Deerefield is only three and a half hours away from turn one. You can do it. Anyone with the vast knowledge and expertise on the history of the Indy 500 that you have needs to eventually come home. This would be a good year!
Rick

[Kurt Cobain]

Dave L are you still out there? Can the merger be the key to getting you back to your beloved Indy 500 after such a long absense? Deerefield is only three and a half hours away from turn one. You can do it. Anyone with the vast knowledge and expertise on the history of the Indy 500 that you have needs to eventually come home. This would be a good year!
Rick

Dave's around. In fact I believe he's posted during the past week.

[Jacoby]

http://www.trackforum.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=102260

[DaveL]

Dave L are you still out there? Can the merger be the key to getting you back to your beloved Indy 500 after such a long absense? Deerefield is only three and a half hours away from turn one. You can do it. Anyone with the vast knowledge and expertise on the history of the Indy 500 that you have needs to eventually come home. This would be a good year!
Rick

I'm still here Rick. Actually, turn one is exactly 3 hours from Deerfield. I'm not sure how you drive

$4.00 a gallon gas may keep me away before my emotions do. I'm still in the process of sorting out how I feel.

[IndyDog]

3 hours X 65mph = 195 miles.
195 divided by 16mpg = 12.1875 gallons
12.1875 X $4.00 = 48.75 X 2 for round trip cost of $97.50.

I'd hate to see you have to break the bank to attend the Indianapolis 500.

[Rick Jones]

I'm still here Rick. Actually, turn one is exactly 3 hours from Deerfield. I'm not sure how you drive

Getting to Chicago is one thing but getting through the city is another. I always seem to catch a stop and go...more stop than go, traffic jam in Chicago.
Rick

[Rick Jones]

Dave, being a fan of the history of the Indy 500, you may appreciate some of the cars that I have created at the Indycar Design It history section. Some are reproductions of actual cars that did race and others are creative interpretations of what cars could have looked like if certain sponsors chose to support a team back in the day.
Rick

http://www.indycar.com/community/designit/index.php?displayType=designer&designer=Rick%20Jones

[DaveL]

Dave, being a fan of the history of the Indy 500, you may appreciate some of the cars that I have created at the Indycar Design It history section. Some are reproductions of actual cars that did race and others are creative interpretations of what cars could have looked like if certain sponsors chose to support a team back in the day.
Rick
http://www.indycar.com/community/des...r=Rick%20Jones

If I had good templates to work with I'd try my hand at Indycar fictionals. The folks who look at my NASCAR fictionals tell me I do a halfway decent job.

[Gomer Simpson]

Dave, being a fan of the history of the Indy 500, you may appreciate some of the cars that I have created at the Indycar Design It history section. Some are reproductions of actual cars that did race and others are creative interpretations of what cars could have looked like if certain sponsors chose to support a team back in the day.
Rick
http://www.indycar.com/community/des...r=Rick%20Jones

You must spend a lot of time on those! Nice work.

[TxIndyFan]

I'm still here Rick. Actually, turn one is exactly 3 hours from Deerfield. I'm not sure how you drive

$4.00 a gallon gas may keep me away before my emotions do. I'm still in the process of sorting out how I feel.

It's only $2.97 here in Austin. Of course it's 1,100 miles to Indy...

Then again, gasoline is over 8 USD per gallon in France, so don't feel too bad. Texas is larger than France, too.

[Mack Too]

$3.40 for regular at Homestead.

[Jim Wilke]

Variation in state taxes has a lot to do with gas prices. California's tax is the highest at 62.8 cents per gallon, Alaska is lowest at 26.4 cents. And Illinois and Indiana are in the top 12.

http://www.api.org/aboutoilgas/gasol...-Tax-Rates.pdf

[Truth Detector]

$3.40 for regular at Homestead.

Yeah, but you're in Homestead.

[JSR]

$3.40 for regular at Homestead.

I'm sure most here feel real sorry for you.

[Rick Jones]

You must spend a lot of time on those! Nice work.

It takes about two hours to do one of these, adding color, patterns, and graphics for the sponsors and such. For the cars that do not have an established template to work from, I create my own drawing of the car from scratch, working from a number of photo resources, and this takes several hours.
Rick