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Bureau: Lagos
The tribute architecture and the broadcast-launch architecture are the same architecture — sixty-seven runnings in, the sport hands the holiday to its newest rights-holder.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway has built the 110th Indy 500 around one basketball player, one rookie pole-sitter, one first-woman attempt, and one pylon lit for Kyle Busch.
Clark is the Indy 500 grand marshal Sunday because her team has six days off — the schedule and the cross-property anchor were engineered together.
An 11-year-old's racing future is the structural reason a charter slot sits empty Sunday — and NASCAR, IMSA, and IndyCar have no written rule for what just happened.