The reason I’m chasing the Indy 500 is simple: it seemed impossible. I said it out loud, people thought I was crazy, and then I spent three years figuring out how to actually do it. I’m not driving (240 mph is not for me). I just want to prove that dreaming big, big enough to roll a race car into your office, is allowed.
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I'm gonna build a race team that wins the Indy 500, mainly because it seemed like someone impossible. The cool part is I said it and then I had people coming up to me and they're like, "You're gonna drive the car?" I'm like, "No, no, no, I can barely turn on mine." So me going 240 miles an hour is probably not a good idea. I just like to sit on the pit box, you know, that'd be good. And so I put it out there and over the last three years I've just been trying to make connections and figure out things and so on and so forth so that I can pull this off because I want to show everybody that it's okay to dream big and roll a race car into your office, which is kind of wild.
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