Tony Borroz opens up what has been dubbed ?The 2018 Indy 500 Notebook? for an unedited look at The Greatest Spectacle In Racing. This new series will span the days leading up to and after the 102nd Indianapolis 500. The 2018 Indy 500 Notebook is an unfiltered look and what makes the Indy 500 so alluring in the first place. 
The prologue can be found here.
Part 2: ?Hey Hinchcliffe, Wanna Race" Then Go Faster!? here.
Part 3: ?Carb Day? here.
Part 4: ?By This Time Tomorrow? here.
Part 5: “On The Fly – Before The Green Flag” here.
Before the drivers get to their cars and fire up their engines, Tony Kanaan echoes my initial observation: the high ambient and track temperatures, plus a new car, means things are going to be slippery out there. The vast bulk of people participating in The Indy 500 these days are seasoned professionals. They are not going to just wing it, dive into the deep end and “see how things” go. There is too much on the line, financially, professionally, and personally for any of these people to just give it a try and trust it to luck. As they line up to take the green after the pace laps, things look very scruffy. The cars are not all three-by-three-by-three. Only a couple of rows are lined up right and the start is pretty ragged. That said, it is a completely clean start. There are no accidents. No one spins. Nobody does anything stupid.
Calm & Collected
In a lot of ways, the start of the 102nd running of The Ind...