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Originally Posted by Zeke
No, I'm looking at HC in an Indy Car only as that's the title of the thread. He may well wind up with No. 5 but I'm not taking my money to Vegas on that.
And that's part of my point. If you bet on Andretti and Unser to win and place in LB, that was a good bet in the day. Anyone in an Indy Car at the 500 in a Ganassi or Penske car is a good bet.
I have no doubts about HCN in other cars. Scott Pruett showed you could drive well into your 50's. But he fell behind in Indy Car. The things are brutal. Even F1 has power steering. And IC runs on a lot of sub standard tracks that F1 would never consider. It seems to favor younger drivers for the road courses.
This is what my opinions are based on. Youth, strength, endurance and starting in karts at age 5. HCN did start in karts. He did win the Brazilian Karting Championship at age 14. He is currently 48, the same age as I stopped racing karts. But I had to give up sprint kart tracks about 5 years earlier and focus on longer tracks.
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we are talking about if helio still has "it" or not. so his driving is the subject, not indycar.
Helio has still got it, and could still win another 500.