Indiana native Bob Pockrass explains why the Indy 500 permeates Hoosier culture

INDIANAPOLIS — Back Home Again In Indiana. It’s awesome.

Having moved to Indianapolis at age 10, I first went to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that same year. It seemed like the right thing to do in the first few months of living there, to take a family visit to the facility that is synonymous with Indianapolis.

But I didn’t fully understand why until the Month of May, when enthusiasm for the Indy 500 permeated through the city. 

I tried to explain what I learned as a Yankee now in the Hoosier court in this video essay: