Stop what you are doing and watch this video right now.
The finish of today’s Firestone Indy Lights race — the IndyCar equivalent of Class AAA baseball — might have been the best in the century-long history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Actually, forget “might.” It was.
Open-wheel racing is not like horse racing, where a bunch of competitors can run side-by-side on the same line. The track simply isn’t wide enough, and there’s too much to lose if cars bump wheels.
Amazingly, though, the top four drivers at the end of the Freedom 100 crossed the finish line four-wide led by Peter Dempsey, who went from fourth to first in the final turn to win by 0.0026 second.
That just doesn’t happen at a place like Indy, where people would go nuts over even a two-wide finish.
Three-wide would have been a race for the ages. But FOUR-wide? Unheard of!
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