May 27, 2012

In 1997 Dario Franchitti started racing Indy cars in the USA and little did we know how great he would be.  Today, Dario won his third Indy 500! We can only think that his good friend Dan Wheldon must have helped him on the last lap.  Takuma Sato and Dario had a little incident racing on the last lap and amazingly Dario came away clean and won the race.  Takuma went into the wall.

Dan Wheldon's face is now sandwiched on the Borg Warner trophy at Indy with Dario Franchitti.  If you win the Indy 500, the winner's face is sculpted on the Borg Warner trophy.  Dan would have loved seeing Dario in victory lane today wearing a pair of white framed sunglasses which Dan was always wearing if he did not have his helmet on.  White sunglasses and drinking and pouring milk over your head in victory circle today was a very good thing to see.

The two photographs here are of Dario in 1997 and a little part of my race room collection.  The visors shown are Dario's and Dan Wheldon's.  I think they were talking to each other today!

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Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann