This is a quick post before I board a plane for Burbank out of O’Hare here in Chicago. This fine looking group is the speakers at this morning’s press conference at the Chicago Board of Trade. It was “tribute to the greening of racing morning.” The cars (Indy Cars) and speakers were set up on the plaza outside the CBOT building.

In the middle of the picture is Jeff Simmons, driver of the Team Ethanol car. He was here to ceremoniously ring the bell to begin trading on the CBOT floor. I’ve got lots of pictures and audio that I’ll be posting as soon as I can which may be tomorrow.

In the meantime I just wanted to let you know.

We had quite a few media in attendance and I think it was a very well-staged event.