BOURCIER: Rooting for the Good Story

Brayden Fox in action at Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway in 2022. (David Nearpass photo)


  • Bones Bourcier

    Mark “Bones” Bourcier has covered automobile racing since 1976, contributing columns and features to a number of magazines and newspapers, including SPEED SPORT.

INDIANAPOLIS – There is no cheering in the press box, some old sportswriter decreed, and the phrase went into the language. Of course, it was dubious from the start.

Certainly, no one holding media credentials to a sporting event ought to cheer out loud; it’s just bad form. But anytime you carry a notepad into a press box — or a pit area, or a race shop — you find yourself rooting for the good story.

 

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