A new email drops into your inbox, and there it is: ‘Hi there, I hope you’re well.’ Much like the boring dating app opener of ‘hey, you okay?’, the line is objectively dull — and yet we all use it.

Fans were gripping fences all Sunday morning as the sounds of racecars serenaded the tens of thousands who flocked to IndyCar’s inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington. Kyle Kirkwood won the race ...