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First EVER Indy Car Drop

bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443
edited December 2014 in General Discussion
If you don't have plans, you may want to consider this...



When you think of New Year's Eve, most think of the ball drop in the Big Apple, but Indianapolis is trying to change that.

The Circle City might have a long way to go to compete with New York City, but it already has something New York doesn't have: an IndyCar Drop.

Georgia Street has turned into Celebration Plaza for Wednesday night's New Year's Eve celebration. While millions will watch the ball drop in New York City, Indianapolis is countering with the New Year's Eve Car Drop.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE GEORGIA STREET CELEBRATION.

Where did the idea of dropping a car come from?

"You know you think of Indianapolis, you think of IndyCar Racing so what is our signature export? It's IndyCar. So why not drop an IndyCar versus a ball? So this is our IndyCar. Just minus the motor," Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles said during a live noon news interview on WTHR.

While most will be confronting cold temperatures, the Indiana Pacers are confronting the Miami Heat in the afternoon and then opening up the main lobby to keep Hoosiers warm up until the time when the car drops.

"Watching the car drop. That is so cool. Pretty incredible," one Pacers fan observed.

"That will be awesome. I can't wait. A first for Indianapolis," another fan added. What do you think of dropping a car. "It sounds kind of scary but awesome at the same time," a third noted.

"It's an actual IndyCar minus the motor in order to save on the weight to make it easier for the people on the crane side. A 1,200-pound car. Normally it's 1,500 but it's decaled to celebrate the city of Indianapolis and Indy Union Construction Company is really helping support the event down here. This is a new tradition out there that really makes sense. We kick the season off on the circle with the lighting of the monument and now end it with a nice Indy Car drop that we think makes a lot of sense," Doug Boles elaborated.


Video
http://www.wthr.com/story/27727581/indy-has-something-for-everyone-on-new-years-eve

Comments

  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443
    edited November -1
    I can't believe that almost 50 people have viewed this and no one has said "that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen."

    Cause it pretty much is for me.
    [:D][:D]
  • Aspen79seAspen79se Member Posts: 4,707
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
    I can't believe that almost 50 people have viewed this and no one has said "that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen."

    Cause it pretty much is for me.
    [:D][:D]



    You have not seen much.
  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    That's one of those new style cars- REAL Indy cars Had the motor (which was an Offenhauser) in front of the driver and was driven by R. Parnelli Jones and Eddie Sachs. they should never have allowed Jim Clark to drive that green thing.
  • KAMsalesKAMsales Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
    Cause it pretty much is for me.
    [:D][:D]



    Obviously haven't watched a State of the Union address in a couple of years [;)]
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,297 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I plan to be fast asleep by the time they drop anything, and 2015 will be a great year if I don't stay up to midnight once the whole year.

    My youngest actually flew out of Myrtle Beach today to go to NY and watch the ball drop in times square with a friend. She has wanted to do that since she was a little one.

    Each to her own I guess, not my thing.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,453 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ray B
    That's one of those new style cars- REAL Indy cars Had the motor (which was an Offenhauser) in front of the driver and was driven by R. Parnelli Jones and Eddie Sachs. they should never have allowed Jim Clark to drive that green thing.


    That Green Thing was a Lotus
  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,041 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Or you could stay up and watch the Potato Drop in downtown Boise.

    But I'm not going to watch either. To cold for me to be downtown, and my bedtime is 2 hours earlier.
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