What Happens When an Italian Racing Team Meets the Indy 500
Prema sets sights on making history this weekend after the Italian team took pole position.
Spectators cheer during the Indianapolis 500.
Photographer: Jeff Dean/AFP/Getty Images
This week, we speak with Doug Boles, president of Indycar, about the crazy tale of the Italian team taking pole position in this weekend’s Indy 500 in their first ever season. We also give James Dolan some credit for the Knicks (not something that’s happened in the past), and wrap up our visit to a very busy NFL owners meeting.
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Hey, it’s Ira. New York Knicks owner James Dolan is no stranger to bad press. For many years when the Knicks were very bad, Dolan bore the brunt of criticism for the franchise’s failures. I was working at New York magazine in 2008 when it ran a feature story calling the Knicks “Absolutely, Positively the Worst Team in the History of Professional Sports,” and at Bloomberg Businessweek more than a decade later when it published a headline asking “Is the Knicks’ James Dolan the Worst Owner in Professional Sports?”