Welcome to a frosty Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the temperature is 48 degrees. The first IndyCar practice is scheduled to start in about 10 minutes. Cars are in their pit boxes.

Yesterday Jacob Abel revealed his livery for the Indianapolis 500, a tribute to Dannt=y Sullivan’s winning car from 1985.

As tribute liveries go, this is a very nice one. It evokes the original. A rear enginecar to rear engine car tribute is easier to do than trying to replicate a front engine livery on one of today’s cars.

After practice I will be exploring the new merchandise shop, and I plan to visit the museum and get some more insight into the renovated facility.

Reminder, the first four sessions of Indy NXT and IndyCar are on FS2.