So I had come along to the middle of Iowa to watch an Indy Car Race. This is the 1st time the Indy Cars had come to Iowa and I heard millions of times for three days that this was the biggest thing ever to hit Iowa and how proud they were that there corn was used to power these ethanol fuelled cars. Talk about milking it.
Drove through a major thunderstorm to get here which wasn’t much fun and then on the second day the racing was cut short as it started to rain again. This time there was a tornado about 25 miles away which thankfully kept that distance. Still some impressive lightning though !
So the race came and went and there were about 40,000 or so there to see it. Quite a few crashes on this tight oval track but unfortunately it was the English driver Dan Wheldon who crashed on the 2nd corner of the 1st lap. As each lap takes about 17 seconds his race wasn’t that long ! He did get out again later but over 100 laps down !
It was won by the Scot Dario Francitti who also won the Indy 500 this year.
Not much else to say about Newton and Iowa. Just lots of farmland and lots of farmland !!
