![]() It’s all for the fun and the passion, and I love that.” It tends to be more like a family deal, you know… no media, no money, no trophies. I love vintage races because the races are short. So I ended up winning, and I hadn’t won a race in a long time. I found out later that the whole place went crazy. I ended up doing a pass on the outside going up into Turn One. “ One of the races they put on is at Thunderhill and I had a blast. I started racing it again and again and I thought I’d died and gone to heaven because back in the 70’s, when I was racing my Pinto and my Vega and a Corvette, I would watch the Formula Atlantic cars and go, ‘Oh my gosh, some day I wish I could drive a car like that.’ So I got to fulfill a lifelong dream.” “ I got a ride in a 1977 Chevron B39 Formula Atlantic car. You’re driving again and you won a pretty exciting race at Thunderhill not long ago, didn’t you? I think stability in the schedule and stability in the rules are still yet to be achieved.” If the fans don’t understand what’s happening, you’re going to lose them. “ But the more complicated we make it, the more difficult it is to keep the fans engaged with the body kits and so forth. They’re going back to Phoenix even though Phoenix hasn’t drawn a huge crowd yet.” “ They’re trying to work on the schedule, and I think the schedule is getting better. They understand that this is what they need to do to help the Indycar series grow and it certainly helps their own careers as well.” They have a group of drivers there now that have been there long enough that they are willing to go above and beyond what maybe some of the previous drivers were willing to do to help promote it. The on-track product is just really good. “ Well, they’ve got momentum going because they’re doing a lot of right things. What is Indycar doing right – and wrong – nowadays? I was fortunate to catch up with her over dinner at a south side Italian restaurant during the Indy 500 festivities and found her as amiable and insightful as ever. She returns to the race each year to sign autographs, make public appearances and renew acquaintances. It took four years of sponsor hunting before she was able to land an Indy ride with Dick Simon Racing, which specialized in bringing new drivers to Indianapolis.Īlthough she’ll be the first to tell you that Indycar’s current “ladder” system excludes most aspiring drivers today and would have been an impassable road block for her as well, she still devotes a great deal of time mentoring young racers. She worked her way up through the road racing ranks, starting with a 1970’s Ford Pinto as her first race car. James in 1992 when she won the Indy 500 Rookie of the Year award and kicked off a decade-long open wheel career that would eventually include nine starts at the Brickyard. We are thrilled to have it on the 2023 shortlist.Stephen Cox Blog Presented by McGunegill Engine Performance There’s a beautiful tenderness to Robbie Arnott’s Limberlost that impressed us. “We loved this book for its stunning sentences, its quiet meditation on masculinity, and its ability to conjure up (as well as transport us to) 1940s Tasmania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prajwal Parajuly on Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (Atlantic Books) Told in spellbinding, folkloric spirit, this is an unforgettable love letter to the richness of the natural world from a writer of rare talent. Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing/Atlantic Books): see my reviewĪt turns tender and vicious, Limberlost is a tale of the masculinities we inherit, the limits of ownership and understanding, and the teeming, vibrant wonders of growing up. It will come as no surprise to those of us who have read and loved Robbie Arnott’s novel Limberlost, that it has been shortlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize. ![]()
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