Wearing a green “ I Call In Sick for Carb Day ” T-shirt, Rick Leppert took a gulp of beer and studied a scene he didn’t quite recognize in his first trip to Indianapolis Motor Speedway since before the pandemic. It is suddenly too modern for a two-decade Indianapolis 500 veteran like Leppert? The release of thousands of colorful balloons, first done in 1947, to kick off the Indianapolis 500 was shelved this year because of environmental and wildlife impact concerns.
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