Came home, repacked and headed for Milwaukee for the IndyFest at the historic Milwaukee Mile. Every year, we have to find some excuse for the annual run to the outlet mall at Pleasant Prairie (sock and underwear restock) and enjoy a Friday fish fry. Then as usual, race day starts out with breakfast at our favorite Milwaukee diner. Massive quantities of excellent food at way reasonable prices.
We started attending races at the Milwaukee Mile the first year we moved to Illinois. We went to Champ Car races and also to NASCAR races. But then, open wheel racing kinda fell apart when Champ and IndyCar split, and after a few years NASCAR just plain split and didn't return to the Mile. This after they had just refurbished the entire track and built a beautiful new grandstand. The track hasn't been used for much in the past few years except testing and the annual Millers at the Mile event (see our previous posts). Recently, IndyCar has gotten its act together and it's turned into a decent racing series again. A couple of drivers that we enjoyed in Formula 1 are now in IndyCar: Rubens Barichello and Takuma Sato.
It was great to see the track back in action.
It was a pretty good race. Our drivers have handled the transition from F1 to Indy fairly well: Barichello's still an excellent driver and Sato still runs into stuff. On the return home, we somehow managed to avoid a stop at the world-famous Mars Cheese Castle. It wasn't easy, passing up those cheese curds as we headed back across the cheddar curtain.
