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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Curt Cignetti in pace car for Indy 500

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Spring has finally sprung and we're kicking off the season with one of our favorite events of the year, Pansy Roulette.

0:06.7

Every spin is a win guaranteed to save 10 to 100% on plants, gifts, and more.

0:13.1

We'll see you at Sullivan's.

0:17.0

He led Indiana to a perfect season and the school's first national title, 16 and 0 record.

0:23.1

And now he's going to be honored.

0:25.1

This is exactly how our local heroes should be honored.

0:29.1

Kurt Signetti, head football coach of the Indiana University Hoosiers.

0:34.1

He will drive the honorary pace car at the 110th, Indy 500 on May 24th, 26, going between 100 and

0:42.0

125 miles per hour on the track.

0:45.4

Hope he feels the need for speed.

0:47.1

Yeah, this seems like a total no-brainer and like the easiest decision that the Indy 500 could

0:52.2

have done.

0:52.6

You've got this great coach.

0:54.0

And let's be

0:54.7

honest, the Indiana Hoosiers this last year were the greatest story in college football history,

0:59.8

maybe one of the greatest stories in the history of all sports. So incredible. Captured the nation,

1:05.1

obviously all of us. Hoosiers are totally into it. The guy's right down the road in Bloomington

1:08.9

just makes total sense to have him drive in the pace car at the Indy 500. By the way, plenty of other sports figures have driven

1:15.6

the pace car in the past. People like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Arod, Emmett Smith. So not uncommon for

1:22.1

them to incorporate somebody else from the sports world and bring them into the sport of motor racing.

1:27.9

So Signetti's going to drive a Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X.

1:32.6

It's a high performance Corvette built right here in the United States.

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