Tomorrow is the biggest race day of the year for racing fans, if you like all the disciplines.   
Breakfast at Monaco, lunch at Indy, and dinner at Charlotte for the Coca Cola 600.  And on top of that, this year you also have the America's Cup, which I think is the most unique of them all.
America's Cup started today, it was scary awesome, the better they get, the more dangerous they are.  A very close call, near disaster, in the last race between Britain and Japan, yikes!  Maybe there is a clip of that somewhere, probably so, check it out.
Way too many choices for me tomorrow, so what am I going to do?  Going windsurfing, it's going to be good, swell kinda small tho.
I had tacos for dinner.

with local blue cheese

Cascadia?  That stuff is fantastic!

Is there a way to watch the America's Cup online, or only TV?

Pretty good?.....some of the best meals I've ever eaten were leftovers in your kitchen.... And you should definitely go before you kaack.

Yeah, the shrouded wheels help some, but there are limits. The cars look more like CanAm cars than open wheel, but they still fly on contact. My deal with Diane is that I can race as long as I believe I'm capable, as long as I stay out of open wheel cars. I think she'd leave me if I started racing Formula Atlantics, as I'd like to. At the very least she'd never go to a race.

That was a surprisingly exciting Indy 500, despite all the yellow flags. Alonzo was amazing. Hell, Takuma Sato was amazing, and he was never more than an F1 backmarker. That oval racing looks easy, but it's just because the drivers are great. When something goes a little wrong it immediately becomes apparent how very not "easy" it is. Connor Daly got a tiny bump that lead into a little twitch that would have been simple to catch in more typical cars under more normal conditions. He has all the right reflexes and training, and that tiny twitch meant game over, welcome to the wall, now grind along the wall for half a mile and turn your car into junk.

I've never done anything approaching Indy stuff, the fastest race car I've driven was a DSR Radical that I ran for three years about 15 or so years ago. But I got to drive a NASCAR taxicab on the banking at Daytona. Incredibly difficult. I did pretty well, the spotters remotely control the revs on the "let the dumb civilians try it" cars, and they let me get pretty far into it. Being on the banking and coming down to the flats without hitting the wall is just insane. You can't see anything when you're on the banking--the road fills the windshield, and then when you come down the car pushes out to the wall despite your desires to the contrary. The sure way to hit the wall, or to get your revs limited to grocery getter level is to saw on the steering wheel. You just have to sit there and maintain pressure and believe it's all going to work out. I've gone faster, but I've never felt in less control unless I was sliding backwards or plowing up an infield.

Watching the stuff Alonso was doing made me crazy. Those F1-style lane changes and passing on the outside--that just looks impossible at Indy speeds. The regular indycar guys don't do much of that, and you could hear from the announcers cringing, that they thought he was going to just crash out. Bummer that he lost the motor with so few laps to go. These high-tech cars even break differently from the kind of old iron I play with. Ours generally go boom and toss bits all over. Or stupid stuff happens like your flywheel bolts break and that buzzsaw cuts the transmission right off the engine and drops it on the ground. That was fun.

Racing cars myself, even at the weenie weekend warrior level, makes me more of a hero worshipper. These guys are the best of the best of the best, with a few more bests in there.

I watched this after the Indy 500 to see Alonso's "first time" on an oval. Fascinating!

Are F1 drivers generally more talented than Indy drivers? For someone who's never driven Indy and qualify fifth against others who've done it their whole careers, what does that say about Indy league? Is it like MLS vs Premier League? FIBA vs NBA?

How would you compare Mario Andretti to Michael Schumacher? Didn't Andretti win at Indy, F1, LeMans?

Finally! I can out-boast Pono

Been there, done that and still have the faded (start-finish line suite) pictures, and pit pass!, to Monaco!  Loved it and still have  tinnitess to prove it.  Michael won it in his 20k+rpm V-10 Ferrari.  These days, not enough passing!

After more or less watching every Indy since middle school, I've gotten corny in recent years and shed a tear of joy for almost every winner.  This year was no different.  Alonso was hot too.

Speaking of hot stuff, Moto GP and Saturday's Glen Helen MX is where it's at!

RC

On the cool side, nothing was better than Creek and I sharing the love of surf after yesterday's very good session at Coast Guard!