DarioManfretti

I watched all of the pre-race programming on the Indy 500, the GP of Monaco, and the Coca Cola 600. My feeling that the best and most moving was the CC 600. When that soldier played "Taps", I almost cried. Plus, those bag pipes doing "Amazing Grace" was very moving (someting about bag pipes). Please try to be fair about this.

boiler

Dario, since I live in Indy, it's a little difficult for me to be objective. I find it very moving for me when Jim Nabors sings "Back home again in Indiana". I didn't see the other pre race shows, so I won't vote, But I think that even if I had seen the other two, I would still prefer the Indy 500. I'm certainly glad to see that the race is almost back to it's former status. It used to be called the 30 days of May and it is just a great time to be in Indy.

Bob Moss

The Coke 600 pre-race was great as are all the activities at Charlotte (I was there in 1994 and it rocked). If you are referring to that pathetic bit of "broadcast journalism" involving Danny Sullivan, Bernie Ecclestone and Nick Heidfeld prior to the Monaco GP you must be joking. While the digital feed and British commentators were outstanding the beginning and intermittent Sullivan pieces were painfully inept.

But for emotion and overall effect nothing beats the Indy 500. I am an unabashed Jim Nabors fan once and only once a year, and this is it. You just cannot beat it. And many many congratulations to The Speedway for putting last year's Steven Tyler fiasco in the past and moving forward with that nice West Point lady singing The Anthem.

The Raptor

I gotta go with Jim Nabors. That damn near brought a tear to my eye, does every year. And the B2 flyby -- fabulous. I love Monaco for the chicks and the yachts, but Danny and Bernie's incipid banter about no American drivers in F1, first in the studio, then on the grid was bullshit.