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Sleeping at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway??!! Despite the action around him, we’ve dug up this photo of Johnnie Parsons taking a nap at the IMS and have an IMS prize pack ready for the best fan photo caption.

So what do you say, how should this photo be captioned?

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Your Caption Here

INDYCAR heads into the second race of the season this weekend with the Honda Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. Naturally, we’ve got our eyes on 2010 Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti who, after picking up win #1 in St. Petersburg two weeks ago, is ready to grab #2 towards his run at a back-to-back Series championships. To get ready for the race weekend, check out an awesome time-lapse video of Texas-based Motorsports artist Kevin Paige creating a full-color rendering of Dario Franchitti at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Full-color rendering of Dario Franchitti at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Pretty neat, huh? Thanks to Kevin Paige, we’ll be giving away the Dario Franchitti drawing to the first fan to locate all 26 Indianapolis Motor Speedway billboards around Indianapolis. Here’s how to enter:

• Track down each IMS billboard in Indianapolis
• Take a photo
• Put all 26 photos online (a Facebook album or Flickr set are a few suggestions)
• Got ‘em all? Post on our Facebook wall to let us know you’ve caught all 26 billboards and provide a link to verify that you have found and captured images of all 26 billboards
• Be FIRST and you will win!

Check out more artwork from Kevin Paige by visiting KevinPaigeArt.com.

What do a brick, trophy, ticket and milk have in common? They set the stage for legendary performances and dramatic defeats. They inspire us to succeed on the grandest stage. They take us back in time and awaken memories that stir the soul. They represent an entire lifetime of hopes and dreams. Welcome to the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500. The Most Important Race in History.

Have you caught our new billboards around Indy? Now that they’re up, we’ve decided to celebrate by giving away prizes! One prize, will go to the first person to do the following:

1.) Catch our billboards around town

2.) Grab your mobile phone and snap a picture

3.) Share the picture with us on Facebook or Twitter by tagging @IMS

4.) Tell us what part of town you were in when you spied the billboard

5.) Be the first! Just like the Indy 500, this contest rewards being fast!

Not first to the Borg-Warner? Keep tweeting images of the Borg-Warner trophy billboards around town, we can’t promise that we’re done giving away prizes! After all, there’s still billboards of the Brick, Milk, and Tickets to share!

Not from Indianapolis? No worries, while supplies last we’re giving away more prizes! Fans, tell us what you think of the new billboard (below). Leave a comment to share your reaction to the new Borg-Warner Trophy billboard (check it out below!) does it make you as excited for May as we are? Let us know and you could win!

All that’s left is to say: Ready? Set? GO!