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Finally after three days of soggy weather in Indianapolis, the only thing drenching the Brickyard on Pole Day was sunshine. A beautiful blue sky and temperatures in the mid-60s greeted drivers attempting to capture one of the first eleven grid spots for 92nd Indianapolis 500. Son Clayton and I were naturally on hand for the festivities.

Here's the Utah Grand Prix Spotter's Guide, absolutely the best damn guide to an American Le Mans Series event you can lay your hands on, anywhere.

The American Le Mans Series’ fourth contest of 2008 is set in the high desert of the American west at Miller Motorsports Park. One can easily imagine Lago, the town of The High Plains Drifter, in the area around Tooele, Utah. Though it’s the third time at Miller, it’s a new track for the sports cars, the twenty-three turns of the 4.5-mile “full” course having been replaced by the fourteen of the much faster 3-mile Outer Course.

There’s something new in the sports car racing world, something that’s been missing since the 2000 season – an American Le Mans Series Season Yearbook.

We got our first preview of this impressive book at Sebring. It’s since been widely distributed, and greeted with universally favorable – even glowing – reviews.

It’s striking not just for what it is – a beautiful telling of the very special American Le Mans Series 2007 season – but for what it is not – just another “look-alike” racing series yearbook.

Jeannie graced the media centers of nearly seventy American Le Mans Series races.