We have no idea what to expect when the green flag drops on Sunday's Indianapolis 500, just as we had no idea what was going to happen during the previous 103 editions of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. What we do know is that this year's 500 is going to be weird.
For starters, it's August and not the hallowed month of May. The most massive crowd in all of sports, more than a quarter of a million spectators in all, will be missing, relegated to a smattering of tailgate parties and lookie-loos in the parking lots and backyards of Speedway, Indiana, that surround Indianapolis Motor Speedway, aka the Racing Capital of the World.