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Rossi: Indy 500 needs tricks of the trade money can't buy
Alexander Rossi had no idea what he was getting into when he moved from Formula One to IndyCar. Turning left the whole race? Looks easy. But as Rossi soon found out – and as two-time world champion Fernando Alonso and his McLaren team learned in failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 last weekend – getting around Indianapolis Motor Speedway at speeds eclipsing 230 mph is a lot tougher than it looks. 'I didn't understand what oval racing was. I didn't understand what IndyCar racing was, because there is no exposure to it in Europe,' said Rossi, an American who moved there as a teenage to and made his F1 dreams come true with seven starts during the 2014 and '15 seasons. 'So...
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