Author: Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star

The 106th running of the Indianapolis is Sunday, and many storylines abound — 33 of them, in fact — from veterans to rookies to possible history.

It’s been 7 years since F1 had an American driver and 16 since one ran a full-season. But the path to fixing the U.S. drought in F1 is unclear.

Pato O’Ward passed polesitter Rinus VeeKay not long after their final pit stops on Sunday to win the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.

For 75 years, Indy 500 grid has held at least 33 cars, but less than 60 days till race day, it’s difficult to see where the 33rd car will come from.

Danny Ongais is the only Hawaiian to drive in the Indy 500 and was one of most versatile drivers. He was 79.

For nearly two years it had been building. When Scott McLaughlin took the St. Pete checkered flag, he shook his fists, undid his visor and screamed.

Scott McLaughlin started from the pole then held off the reigning IndyCar champion in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg for his first career win.

Now that he’s won ‘The Great American Race’ at Daytona, Austin Cindric says he’d love to run ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing’ in Indianapolis.

The young star says he’ll be in IndyCar for at least the next 2 seasons before he’d make the move to F1, should Michael Andretti’s team be approved.

Paul Tracy worked in the NBC Sports booth helping call IndyCar races for eight years, but the analyst won’t return in 2022.