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Inside Line: Can Fernando win the Indy 500?
I, like some two million others, was fascinated to watch online Fernando Alonso’s drive for the first time on an oval race course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of his rookie orientation test. To judge by the many troll like messages that were posted on Facebook by fans more accustomed to road courses, what can be so difficult about just turning left and why should a two times World Champion have to do a ‘rookie” test? Well the more you watched and indeed listened to the commentary by former Indy legends Mario Andretti and Johnny Rutherford, the more you understood what a specialist art oval racing is, particularly at Indianapolis. Firstly, there are no run off areas,...
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