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Alex Palou still felt the sting from his second-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 when he saw Helio Castroneves at the victory dinner and begged the winner to tell him how he made the decisive final pass. “I asked him a couple of questions because I was in doubt if he was actually managing that pass or not, and he didn’t answer me, he just said ‘Hey, I have more experience than you,’” Palou said. The Spaniard opened his first season with Chip Ganassi Racing — it is his second season in IndyCar — with his first career victory.
Helio Castroneves won his fourth Indianapolis 500 race Sunday, becoming the fourth racer in history to do so.
Brazilian auto racer Helio Castroneves made history after winning his fourth Indianapolis 500 race on Sunday. He is now one of four drivers to win The Greatest Spectacle in Racing four times.
Castroneves, who took the checkered flag in 2001, 2002 and 2009, held off runner-up racer Alex Palou, winning by a mere .4928 of a second. Castroneves claimed his first three wins with Team Penske, but Sunday s win was the first Indy 500 win for Meyer Shank Racing.
In a tradition that dates back to 1936, Castroneves slugged back some milk while draped in a laurel of flowers in Victory Lane after the race.
Pataskala s Meyer Shank Racing basking in weekend s Indy 500 win
Pataskala-based Meyer Shank Racing won this year’s Indianapolis 500 with a record-setting Helio Catroneves at the wheel this past weekend.
On Sunday, Castroneves made Indy history with his fourth victory at the Indianapolis 500, officially tying A.J. Foyt, Al Unser Sr. and Rick Mears for most victories.
The car and the team behind Castroneves have deep central Ohio roots.
Meyer Shank Racing, Inc., which launched in 1994, is currently in the process of completing construction of a new headquarters in Pataskala at Etna Parkway and Refugee Road, the first property to land in the city’s corporate park. The firm was previously based in neighboring Etna.