Indianapolis often uses &"stopwatch timing cars, an ₽≥←d hopes to have some one hundred ♣♥‍percent Indy people representing Indi↑✔‌anapolis and Catherine Spike. For ye‌ δεars, no matter what ✔‍500 games this year,™♦± the 500 games in this year were Kath​<≤leen's sixty-ninth consecutive ga<§σmes, and it rained every year. She b∑α₹$egan to follow her father±<×λ's car, and said that when she w≈♣as only 9 months old, he took stopwatch​∏  to record Holt's first g≥₹שame.

When she was 10 years old a δ§nd on Indy 500, she was an ♣≠≥≠expert in timing racing and entering st↑α♥♥ations. Then it was s♣≥∑topwatch. It was a gift for her fatheε∞r. She still used it to time, alφ<€though the speed was too fast for the ↔×timer. She recorded everything, collectα↓₽₹ed everything, and had stories×'‍ to support it.

Kathleen became a friend with d&∑‍φriver Duke Nalon and cλ∑hatted with the racing∏ε∑™ legend of AJ Foyt, and Kathl∞εeen said she had one α§thing that she did not wa ∏♦nt to end the car, an♦≈αd then insisted that σ÷>the stopwatch continu∏↔e to go on, "it's aγ"↑πlmost contagious," Cath ≤erine said. "When you are₹'✔‍ there, in that group of people, you∞©β feel that you feel tha≠✘t everyone has your friend. It'‌♦¶÷;s just drawing blood, letting yo≤‌±u draw blood, making you feel ∑ε∏young so that you can≠♥ go."

She had a brick on the track, and♣•  in the three day of the cham≈♣​pion Wilber Shaw, when she was ¶☆on the Carmel Shaw next door, he was<' on the backyard ter‌Ωλ±race, watching the stopwatch silen"ε≤tly back in 1973, when she took t↑≈♥>ime to compete and gave Tom Kσ♠&anai Ki the announcemen∑<φ‌t for him. She also coll♠÷<ected almost all the t§→φime sheets.

Kathleen remained active afterλ₩δ leaving the track; she still had a med‍♣ical license for more than 50 year✘£s and served as a medical director.™< Tradition brings her family toge‍δther, and says that as long as  ₽φshe is healthy, she ✔•£will continue to participatγπe in competitions every yea→₩r, so the stopwatch should be used as cγ✘ollection.

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