Pop Off Valve, for IndyCar fans

The Indy 500 has always meant many things to many people, but its meaning needs to be updated for the modern sports fan.

If America loves the new and unexpected, it may be time to bring it back to the nation's most storied motorsports tradition - the Indianapolis 500.

Is there such a thing as over-memorializing the fallen? Pop Off Valve examines the ongoing tributes to Dan Wheldon and asks, "Is it time to move forward?"

There's a rumor that INDYCAR might stage a second race at the famed Brickyard on the track's road course. Even New Coke wasn't this bad of an idea.

The recent struggles of the Brickyard 400 NASCAR race at Indianapolis are well-documented, but IndyCar fans are feeling a disturbing sense of deja vu about them.

The past decade-plus at Indianapolis has felt like the energy has been slowly draining from the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. This year, the energy is back.

The Indy 500 in the rearview mirror, the IndyCar blogosphere looks forward to the Twin 275 races at Texas Motor Speedway in this week's Paddock Pulse.

Check out the buzz and reaction from the IndyCar blogosphere after an "instant classic" Indianapolis 500!

Gut reactions to the 2011 Indianapolis 500 follow an "instant classic" of a race that saw yet another last-lap pass for the victory.

Sources say that Danica Patrick will move to the NASCAR Nationwide Series full-time in 2012. Here's why IndyCar fans are feeling relieved.