UNIFICATION - Humor Me and Read This

As a blogger, I realize that many of my readers are stay-at-home moms that home educate their children. I should know, because I'm married to one of my readers and she fits the mold. I'm also quite certain that the rest of you that read this might not be interested in the content of this post, but I need all of you to humor me and read this, anyway.

I haven't said too much on my blog about how much I love open-wheel racing and the Indy 500. If you don't know what open-wheel racing is, it's the kind of cars you see at...the Indy 500 and Formula 1 races and Champ Car races (if you know any of this). No fenders. Really fast cars.

If I tell most folks that I like "racing" it instantly conjures up images of Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr...you know, NASCAR. I'm not going to knock NASCAR (biting tongue right now), but I'm an open-wheel fan. Believe it or not, before NASCAR became a national obsession, the Indy 500 and IndyCars were the biggest thing going in this country. So, now you know about that.

Please, keep reading. It's important to me.

Yesterday something VERY IMPORTANT HAPPENED. This goes back to 1996 when open-wheel racing was ripped into two separate racing series. At this point, it's not worth pointing fingers. Not only did it split the racing teams in two different directions, it also split the fans. From 1996 until recently there was the IRL (Indy Racing League--also known as the Indy Car Series) and ChampCar (which was called CART until recently).

Did I mention that yesterday something VERY IMPORTANT HAPPENED?

After all this time, the two managed to get back together. It's a dream come true for a dork like me. If you're a racing fan and you're reading this, it's really time that you give IndyCar racing a chance...or a second chance.

Thanks for reading. You can now go back to whatever it was that you were doing.