Today, Nathan Rees is immersed in the Sacred Harp community. Not only is he a singer, he also is the curator of the Sacred Harp museum in Carrollton, Georgia, and a member of the revision committee working on the upcoming 2025 edition.
The first time, it was the discovery last April that the Penske drivers had access to thehave been able to use the extra horsepower boost. On Sunday, during the second day of qualifying for the 109th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” it was discovered that
They were disqualified from making a four-lap run, and IndyCar a day later hammered Team Penske: Newgarden, the two-time defending race winner, was dropped to 32nd in the field and Power was moved to last.IndyCar stripped both cars of points earned in qualifying, fined both teams $100,000 and suspended the strategists for the remainder of the month. It means Cindric and team managing director Ron Ruzewski will miss the Indy 500 for a second consecutive year.This is a nightmare for Penske, who owns the three-car team, IndyCar, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500 — the race he values more than any other event in the world. Penske has a record 20 Indy 500 victories.
“What a shame this cloud will continue to hover over our great race until everything is fully resolved,” McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown told The Associated Press.The penalties were decided by new IndyCar President Doug Boles, who in February was given the title in addition to his job as president of the speedway. He was the one to inform Penske, via phone call, before they were announced Monday.
Boles also tried to lessen Penske’s role in what has transpired within the team.
“I don’t think Roger Penske understands some of the things that might be going on. I get the optics challenge, and it’s definitely something we should think about,” Boles said. “While (issues) roll up to Roger at the end of the day, I think they are certainly below him. There are things that happen that don’t ever get to Roger.Yet, there was the open-air popemobile driving through a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Bangui, a zone off-limits to Christians, with the pope crossing a line many feared amid a yearslong civil war.
An imam at his side, Francis removed his shoes, bowed his head and entered a mosque,people to “say ‘no’ to hatred, vengeance and violence, especially that committed in the name of a religion or God.”
The episode is being recalled by Catholics as they weigh the pontiff’s legacy throughout Africa, a continent where the faith is growing rapidly and where, unlike Francis, the priesthood leans deeply conservative.The airplane carrying Pope Francis lands in Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)