The Indy 500 is mid-America's annual Woodstock. A.J. Foyt is Bob Dylan. Woodstock, for those of you who remember that celebratory happening (and already it's beginning to slip back in time to the land of ancient history and nostalgia), was an immense gathering of starry-eyed Believers. What they believed in, no one quite knew. There was no consensus. It just seemed that you should be there, wear funny clothes, bake in the sun or drench in the rain, travel great distances to be present, using any means of locomotion available from the thumb to a Ferrari roadster, but to be there was all important. . .
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