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Message: This year is the 92nd running of the 500. It is my 53rd. My dad took me to my first one on May 30, 1954 on my 11th birthday, and it kinda got in my blood. I have only missed 2 since then, and that was due to being overseas in the Navy. I was fortunate enough to work as an official for over 10 years for USAC when we were the governing body of the race. How do you even attempt to write down your feelings about this place when you go back so far, and have seen so much, and seen all the changes that have taken place the last 54 years. The memories are abound, and on practice days when it is quiet with no one on the track, if you shut your eyes, they come back. The roadsters, Novis, turbines, and all the great names who drove them. Each year when the race is over, I glance at the track on the way out, and just ask for the time to see one more. Just one more. Then I go home and start thinking about next year, and how I will be there for all the days of practice and time trials, while staying in a motel rathere than drive it every day from Bedford. Hopefully, I will still be here in 2011 for the 100th anniversary of the track, and that will be my 56th race. Time....................... Please, just one more. I love it so.---Larry

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