This season in car racing, two American DJs (and one Canadian) are going to show the world how proud they are to call the Land of the Free the home of the rave. Kaskade, Steve Aoki, and A-Trak have been tapped to provide some high-octane beats at IndyCar's prime event, the Indianapolis 500 in May.If you're not a car racing fan, perhaps you didn't know, that the Greatest Spectacle in Racing's infield area, also known as The Snake Pit, has for decades been one of the event's most treasured traditions of the event. For years, the the patch of grass at the center of the track was an all-around free-for-all, with uncontrollable drunken debauchery at every left turn, but in 2010, the site was renamed as the New Snake Pit. Indy's organizers started to steer the Pit's ethos towards more organized (and contained) musical performances, which for the last few years has often included a variety of DJs helming the event's pop-up platform.Raver kids and Racing Dads are definitely an unlikely pairing. One group is targeted by governments and blamed for societal ills and the other group elects people to those governments (often Republicans). While car racing has long represented the conservative values and more traditional tastes of America's heartland, the inclusion of wildly popular DJs in this wildly popular sport builds a connection between red states and blue states, crossing generations and the rural-urban divide of the country. Politics aside, the power of dance music—particularly the friendly brand of dance music that main stage artists play— to disintegrate all sorts of socio-political barriers is real.Since 2010, Benny Benassi, Krewella, and Hardwell have taken to Indy's Pit stage to shower race-hungry fans with an allotment of bass and drops and while the beer-chugging race fans that occupy the New Snake Pit might not be cut from the same cloth as the beer-chugging population of Ultra, everyone likes to have fun. There's no word yet on when a tropical house side stage will appear at the finish line.Get your case of American beer on ice now and get more information and tickets at Indy500snakepit.