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Message: As a young boy in the mid 1970's my father and I would always listen to the race in the detached garage at our home in Pennsylvania, as we prepared for a family picnic on Memorial Day. I can remember rooting for Mario Andretti every year with my father, back then the race was not televised live, but later that evening. Even though Mario did not win, I remember hoping that night things would change and he would win when we watched it on TV, surprisingly the results were always the same. Every year while listing on the radio, I would badger my father "can we go next year", over and over again. I always got the same response "maybe".

Many years later, I had graduated from college and moved west, a friend of mine had a ticket fo the 1993 Indy 500, he did not even have to ask, my answer was yes! After we got to the stands inside of turn 3 he asked me what I tought. My response was I needed two tickets for the next year. That year it was about lap 105 not a cloud in the sky and Mario Andretti had made a pass into the lead in turn 1. I could hear the crowd all they way in turn 3. I remember hoping it would rain and Mario would have gotten another 500, but there was not a cloud in the sky and he unfortunately did not finish the race.

Well you guessed it my father and I went to the 1994 Indy 500 together, and I am happy to say the 92nd running will be our 15th Indy 500. I have several fiends that join us fo the race and we make a grand time of it. But the one thing that is always special is the time my father and I can share at a place we both hold sacred, and as holy ground. Things have changed and my wife, kids and I have moved 6 times over the past 10 years with our careers, but now I am in Illinois, and I hope to take my kids to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for qualifications this year. I hope to share with them what I have been able to share with my father over the past 15 years. Thank you IMS, this is truely a special place.

Chris Miller

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