Posted on 05/24/2025 6:50:26 AM PDT by UB355
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Give the Borg-Wiener Trophy at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the Wienermobile affectionately known as Slaw Dog.
In a down-to-the-wire race among the six iconic Wienermobiles that serve as goodwill ambassadors for Oscar Mayer, the hot dog-on-wheels representing the Southeast proved to be the big dog on Carb Day ahead of Sunday’s running of the Indianapolis 500.
It made a dramatic pass of the Wienermobile repping Chicago at the finish line to win the inaugural Wienie 500 on Friday.
The margin was about a half a bun.
“You are standing in a moment in hot dog history right now,” Sarah Oney, who was co-piloting the Wienermobile representing New York with Connor Wolff, told The Associated Press. “This is the first-ever time we have honestly had all six Wienermobiles together and especially at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.”
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Neither are we descendants of fearful men.
Neither are we descendants of fearful men.
That’s when the Wienermobile from the Southeast, which had doggedly hung around the lead for most of the race, made its big move. It passed the Wienermobile repping Chicago just in time to relish in the sweet taste of victory.
We see what you did there!
Whoever came up with the Wienermobile idea back in the day really hit the jackpot. It has become an iconic piece of Americana. If they polled the Weinermobile's job approval rating it would probably be close to 100%.
The sausage king of Chicago?
We watched it, the wife thought it was great. I recognized that the outcome was predetermined. The mobiles don’t have enough pickup to cover the fact that the leader had lifted to let someone else into the lead.
(He’d lift, let them pass, and then try to roll back into the throttle to go on. But they’re so sluggish that it took a LONG time for them to get back up to speed once they’d rolled off).
I d-no what happened. Its like a bunch of grandkids were messing with G-Paws computer. I have to go and re-undo about half of it every weekend.
https://youtu.be/GMyES63Rgvg?si=zHSTnYN23b7vWUMH
I dare anyone to watch it and not smile, and some of us can use it!
Anything from Grand-kids to Google messes with my computer interface of graphic and sonic inputs so Saturday mornings can go like this.
Video of the race.
https://youtu.be/GVlc0lEpErc?t=927
A man sang that song before the race
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