Crack A Cold One: The Milk Choices For This Year's Indianapolis 500 Are Here

It is officially Indianapolis 500 week which means in less than a week one driver will be cracking a cold one in the winner's circle…

…and by that I mean a crisp, cold bottle of milk.

As is tradition, the winner of the Indianapolis 500 gets to chug (and spill into the hot cockpit I'm sure their team loves that) a nice bottle of milk after being the first to cross the Yard of Bricks after 500 miles of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Each year, the Indiana Dairy Association — which supplies the winner's milk — lets each of the 33 drivers in the field choose what kind of moo juice they want to swig and dump on themselves if they win one of the most iconic races on the planet.

I'm happy to see that the overwhelming majority of the field is going with whole milk — including last year's winner Joseph Newgarden — and if you want to say that there's a "correct" choice, it's that.

2% is my daily driver milk, but if I happened to be in the Indy 500 field, I'd be going whole just because I want the full experience. 

If Josef Newgarden finds the winner's circle again this year, he'll be celebrating with some ice-cold whole milk. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)

I feel the same way about this as I do when F1 does races in Middle Eastern countries where drinking is outlawed and they have sparkling rose water on the podium. Anything would taste good on the podium, but you'd kind of miss champagne.

As for the 2%, that will be waiting for Pato O'Ward, Graham Rahal, and Romain Grosjean, but even more interestingly, the two drivers with the most wins in the field — four-time champ Helio Castroneves and two-time champ Takuma Sato — are also going with 2% if the win.

Then we get to the two skim milk drivers on the grid and this is