I transcribed all of the Indianapolis-based newspaper coverage leading up to and the actual 1925 Indy 500 race, compiled it and edited it down into a four part series so behold (Part 1 has links to the other 3 parts): motorsport-anthology.com/1925-indy-50...

a picture of my new puppy (addy)

i’m sorry to say i always forget this place exists

I wonder how fast I'm going to regret writing "If his heart broke, you can't send him to the rope" as a bit of levity in a bleak story about how juries were disturbing cool with husbands murdering their wives in 1900s France. www.jalopnik.com/1932012/winn...

i have an email for people to send me stuff that’s linked to my website and through this i’ve learned that a fairly common family legend is “xyz was a riding mechanic in the indy 500”

anyway i’ve arrived at this place re: indycar — i’m not getting paid to worry about nor fix the marketing problems and so i’m just not gonna… if this is a sinking ship, well 🤷🏼‍♀️

i just wonder if the people at penske entertainment have figured out yet that getting every race on fox and doing 3 commercials was um. not sufficient to do anything to increase indycar viewership numbers

my legit favorite thing about doing archival newspaper research is all of the incidental things i find

sometimes i get @elizablackstock.bsky.social’s substack and it’s like she’s writing advice just for me 😌

I can fix Iowa Indy

I’m so glad DPTJ book club included this book!!! I’m not exaggerating when I say that The Last Lap changed the lens in which I view the pre-war motorsport period

i’m choosing to not care re: indycar viewership numbers. those are not my goddamn problem (and if you aren’t working for indycar/a team/affiliated otherwise they really aren’t your problem either)

it was me 💀(which means conor daly will not be answering)

ngl Gluck and Weaver were the two nascar journalists i thought were the most solid nascar guys and i feel very let down by their tweets over the tab boyd thing tbh

personally I think "tell Penske to go fuck themselves" is a hilarious thing to say on the radio

are we doing indycar gateway tv number discourse here? it that allowed

my child is dooming and glooming over the tigers losing the last two games and I'm like "wow you sound just like the men on the internet"

okay so i have this thesis type thing and it’s still a work in progress but like. IMS uses nostalgia to keep people buying tickets to the 500 and the museum is more or less just a vehicle to push nostalgia and it makes me resentful ngl

so like. y'all are learning Kate Lore tonight LMAO It's important context to know and understand that I have always loved history. My first special interest was Abraham Lincoln and I was reading adult biographies about him by age 10. Most of my special interests involved history --

i think it’s important context to understand that i came from a family who very much revolved around sports — playing them and watching them on TV. so i don’t remember a time where I didn’t watch sports

Ultimately, I’m not really sure IndyCar would be better off if AAA had stayed past 1955 because if they had lasted until the 1970’s and then USAC was formed and tony hulman dies in 1977 and less than a year later, the top USAC officials die in a plane crash — who knows what might’ve happened then?

have at it, i guess ask me your burning questions: ngl.link/racingkate1

Can’t wait to see how this goes badly for them 💀😭

thinking about getting a second car tattooed on my arm but then i’m like “that makes me really committed to american open wheel racing history” 💀

my indycar Thoughts™️ from last night: •kyle kirkwood should be a superstar but won’t be and that Upsets me •i wish bryan herta was my dad •most people who are clamoring for more ovals when what they want is more night races on ovals but they’re too dumb to realize that

Kyle Kirkwood is the American star they want, but they don't shut the fuck up about Ferrucci for long enough to realize

are we doing indycar oval discourse here? or am i free (i cannot do more indycar oval discourse)

looking at gateway’s schedule for the weekend and yeah i can see why people aren’t buying tickets like ???

i don’t know if we count race car drivers as celebrities but i watched kyle kirkwood hit my friend with a porta potty door

i know every fandom has its issues and whatever but my god the indycar fandom has this specific brand of stupid that is exclusive to it that pisses me offfffff

Credit to Cassie J. 😂

I'm an IndyCar fan through and through, have been for almost 3 decades. But the insecurity some IndyCar have about the sport is baffling. The overlap on the Venn diagram of Indy and F1 is much smaller than people think it is

In this edition of 1925 Indy 500 race coverage, read about the race (duh), but also about the tires, hear from the Chief Timer and learn how Fred Duesenberg manages his pits: motorsport-anthology.com/1925-indy-50...

In this edition of 1925 Indy 500 race coverage, read about the race (duh), but also about the tires, hear from the Chief Timer and learn how Fred Duesenberg manages his pits: motorsport-anthology.com/1925-indy-50...

the gp being in the city of detroit has been awesome, i love this place so much

This is the #Indy500 history they don't want you to know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J47...

When my family asks how things are going

if I see you talking shit about the Detroit GP/Detroit, I'm just gonna assume you've never been and you're probably racist

I wonder what all of my math teachers would think if they knew the most complicated thing I've used math for is calculating the precise time each lap of the 1925 Indy 500 happened at

This is some good soup

i will not be tolerating detroit grand prix slander so write that one down and check yourself

now i know you’re not talking about my beautiful city like this

1922 Indianapolis 500 Thread #Indy500 🧵 In May 1922 my grandfather accompanied his friend and race driver Ralph Mulford to the Indy 500 where Mulford raced. Mulford had to drop out at lap 150, while he was in 3rd place, due to a broken valve. Ralph Mulford and his oilman in the pits May 29, 1922

anyway I'm really bad at keeping more than one place updated so if you'd like to read about the daily happenings of the run up to the 1925 Indy 500, it's all here: motorsport-anthology.com/1925-interna...

twt's not working so I guess I will reside here in the meantime

The world if Marshall Pruett was able to put aside his hatred for Penske and actually be the really good journalist he has the talent to be.

i’m sorry but if you’re crashing out over a motorsport team getting caught cheating, i am Judging you very hard