INDIANAPOLIS — The comedy of errors that doomed McLaren’s disastrous return to the Indianapolis 500 began months before Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the race. How bad was it? A week before Alonso’s first test in the car, the team realized it didn’t even have a steering wheel. McLaren […]
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NBC takes over Indy 500 broadcast after half-century on ABC
Like most aspiring broadcasters of his era, Mike Tirico remembers tuning into ABC every Saturday to watch “Wide World of Sports,” listening in rapt attention to the dulcet tones of Jim McKay. “It was Channel 7 back in New York,” Tirico recalled fondly, “and this was a time that was […]