Originally Posted by DXchulo
Yeah, Indiana isn't exactly known for cycling, and I can say that because that's where I'm originally from. I bet if it was in California a lot more people would have shown up.
The VeloNews article mentioned that the entry fee was high, but I don't know about that. I mean, if you really thought you were good and really thought this could be your big break, then $150 would be nothing.
ohmigawd....
big break???
what a hoot...
the
real racers were in Elk Grove Village. Beat the guy in the photo, that's your big break.
...now some more facts....the reason it was at the Speedway was that this was also a fundraiser for the Indiana University Hospital Cancer Center. This happens to be the hospital were one Mr. Armstrong went for cancer treatment, and is the facility, world-wide, for treatment in testicular cancer. Dr. Einhorn invented the current successful treatments for this disease. So, Lance does fundraisers for his foundation and the hospital, and it's his second trip here, his first to drive the pacecar for the 500 (and do a large black tie dinner/fundraiser at $10,000 a table that was sold out), that race "nobody cares about"...
You didn't
really think that the winner of this thing was going to, like, get a contract or anything, did you? Good grief...did you see the ads they ran for this "race"?
I could get into the amount of racing that goes on in Indiana, the juniors from Indiana over in Europe right now, the number of Olympians that have been from here, the multi-time collegiate cycling champions,
Marian College, but it's not worth it. Oh, and the guy that won the 18-24 age group was from, you guessed it, Marian College.
...my sides hurt...