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This post comes to you just in time for the greatest spectacle in racing, the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500.The latest installment, of what I’m calling Hoon’s Day Out, is by far my favorite and one I’ve been looking forward to sharing for some time. Being a big racing fan, I spent a long time just staring and pointing at the cars you’re about to see, probably annoying my friends in the process.I had seen many of these cars before online or in print, but never had the good fortune to stand next to them. They were on loan to the LeMay Museum from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation and I was like a kid in a candy store.Come take a look!The first car you’re looking at is a biggie: the 1968 Lotus Turbine “Wedge” 70. With a Pratt & Whitney gas turbine engine and Ferguson four-wheel drive, this car, driven by Graham Hill, started 2nd and was running 4th when the suspension gave out. It was capable of 170+ MPH.The second car is a 1925 Miller Junior 8 Special. First of all, I love the names given to these cars; it really speaks to the purpose-built, prototype nature of early Indy car racing. This is the first front-wheel drive ever entered in the 500, which finished 2nd in the closest finish to date, 44 seconds. Next, we have a 1930 Miller Hi Speed Special, and you can clearly see the evolution of the Indy car – a little lower, a little wider, a little faster. This particular car finished 2nd in 1930 and 1932, and was raced in 12(!) 500′s from 1930 to 1947. It runs on a 4-cylinder, 183-cubic inch engine, good for 180hp. I forgot to take down information for this car, so I don’t know much about it, except that continues with the 2-seat configuration, has some fairly beefy tires, and what looks to be a pretty large gas tank. For an Indy car, it’s pretty tall and slab sided. If any of you know more about this car, feel free to weigh in. This is a 1940 Sampson Special, and again, you can see that Indy cars are evolving into the classic Indy roadster shape – long, low, with a teardrop back end. This car made four starts in the 500, running on a 12-year old V16 made from two supercharged 91.5-cubic inch straight-8 Miller engines! In 1946, it qualified 3rd, using that same now 18-year old engine. This is a 1938 Gulf-Miller, and straight away you can see some major differences in previous Indy cars. This car took inspiration from the Auto Union grand prix cars that were making waves in Europe at the time, as you can see by the big supercharged slant-six out back, and the driver (and stubby nose) in the front. It, too, was 4-wheel drive, and apparently ran on pump gas. It wasn’t a successful venture at first, although it qualified 3rd in 1939, but retired after just 47 laps. Here we have a 1948 Kurtis Agajanian, and you can see that classis roadster shape that became so popular through the 1950′s. This car didn’t see success until 1950, when it took pole position at 134.343 MPH (a new . . . track . . . record!). This car has a 270-cubic inch Offenhauser engine, making around 300hp, and a 2-speed transmission. This is a 1959 Watson Indy Roadster, the same car that won the 1959 race. It also has an Offy engine, good for 400hp. Unlike the other cars, this one is fuel injected, and also had on-board air jacks. In many ways, this car pointed to the future. We end this tour of the Indy car exhibit with one of the wildest, craziest, and coolest cars ever to turn a lap at Indy. They call it “Smokey’s Sidecar”. Just look at this machine! It’s a 1964 Hurst Floor Shift Special, powered by a 4-cylinder, 255-cubic inch Offy. Sadly, this car never raced at Indy, but it did make several practice laps over 150mph. Bobby Johns tried to qualify, but wrecked it coming to the green flag. The team couldn’t repair it in time to make another run, and the sidecar special never came back. It’s a real shame, as the innovation that

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• Rocketing costs raise fears over Formula One's future• Controlling equity firm CVC Capital comes under fireFormula One is in crisis as it faces up to a $2bn (£1.32bn) bill that it cannot afford to pay and which could spell the end for a number of teams. The warning has come from one of the sport's biggest players, Martin Whitmarsh, the McLaren team principal who is also chairman of the Formula One Teams' Association, on the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix.The teams, who are absorbing the terms of the next Concorde Agreement, are already angry that the private equity firm CVC Capital, who hold a controlling stake in F1, take out more than half of the sport's $1.5bn income. With so much money going out, the teams cannot cope with rising costs and Bob Fernley, Force India's deputy team principal, claimed that CVC are "the worst thing that had happened to the sport."The 11 teams pay a fortune to be involved in Formula One. The smallest, Marussia, has an estimated budget of $65m and that goes up to about $250m for Red Bull, who won last year's constructors' championship.Now they have to come to terms with rocketing costs to cover new engines that will be introduced next year, a hike in entry fees to the FIA, the sport's governing body, and a new in-season testing initiative that is due to be approved next month.Whitmarsh said the situation "really is a threat to the sport," and added: "Formula One works best in a crisis but it is a shame that we have to create a crisis to deal with. This sport needs 10 or 11 teams and we should fight to keep the 11 teams we have now. But we are not good at doing these things. We seem to drop the ball. I fear that we will have a crisis and then we will have to get real and sort it out. I cannot see in their shoes [the seven smaller teams] how you can construct a sustainable business model."These seven teams are already incensed that most of the money goes to the four biggest operations, Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes and McLaren. CVC are scheduled to increase payments to the teams from 47.5% to 60% of the sport's income – but the extra money will go to the big four. Fernley said: "There should be a more equitable distribution. It's quite right that Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes get recognition. I would like to see Red Bull recognised in 20 years' time but not after five years of pumping money into the sport."To make matters worse, teams complain that there is a lack of leadership from the FIA while Bernie Ecclestone, the sport's chief executive and commercial rights holder, faces the possibility of prosecution over allegations that he paid a $44m (£29m) bribe to a German banker. Ecclestone, who will be 83 in October, already faced an uncertain future and CVC are believed to have drawn up a short list of names to succeed him. If he is charged, it could potentially jeopardise the planned $12bn (£7.9bn) flotation on the Singapore stock exchange later this year.But it is the spiralling costs which have focused the teams' attention. Between them, them will have to find $2bn over the seven years of the three-cornered Concorde Agreement, which will tie them to Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and the international racing authority, the FIA. The biggest bill is for engines, as Formula One moves from the 2.4-litre V8s to 1.6-litre V6 units in 2014. It is understood that each team will have to find an extra $15m per season. Over seven seasons, and multiplied by the 11 teams, that comes to $1.155bn.Whitmarsh said: "What is frightening is that we have adopted important new engine regulations. They are the right thing to do in many regards. They are technologically interesting and relevant to society. But F1 badly mismanaged the cost of the development and supply of those new power plants. We allowed the engineers to be unfettered in dreaming up the regulations, which means teams are now facing big bills. We got costs down to £10m and now we are talking about double that. That is with all the other cost challeng

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