Helio Castronweus: Indy 500 Legend becomes a Detona 500 crooks

What would be considered the most prestigious caste in America? NASCAR’s Daytona 500, or Indycar’s Indianapolis 500?

Both are far away from becoming an expert, Helio Castronavs It was difficult for Motorsport.com to keep two incidents against each other. “Comparing it to the Indie 500, it is as if you are comparing it to another star. I don’t know, (eg) Taylor Swift and Madonna, you know? It is a very big show and it is a very big race and there is a lot of history behind it – an indycar, a nascar, and I am very lucky and blessed to be able to both. ,

Castronways were talking to several media members who previewed Amelia, who is celebrating 30 years as a more prestigious lifestyle in the world next month. There, hundreds of magnificent cars-which include several mythological race cars-will translate the Ritz-Karlton on the island of Amelia in Florida. The event will also include Indianpolis 500 winners, Castronavs four times, as its honor.

But before enjoying Amelia’s splendor, the largest race in Castronweus NASCAR – Detaona 500 will take the 67th run. “I don’t think I can put in words how nervous I am,” he laughing.

It is difficult to believe that Castronweus – one of the most impressive racing resumes with a 49 -year -old man – will panic at this level in his career, but he is a true fraud behind the wheel of a stock car. As he said, “It is completely different.” She was closest to this style of racing so far, competing with IOC cars in Detona in the early 2000s, which took place just before NASCAR’s season-owner. Brazil was given the taste of ‘The Great American Race’ as an audience. He says “I blew my mind.”

Shortly after that experience, Castronavs says that they started asking Roger Penscay to run the stock car race on any track. But as the Motorsport.com has previously reported, Penscay is not keen from another playground to another despite crossing the operating teams with a wide variety from one playground to another.

The dream remained, he was stuck behind his mind as he became a three -time winner of Rolex 24 in Detonon and a four -time winner of Indianapolis 500. Superstar Racing experience when a real opportunity came. It is well known how Hawk promised helio to use his nascar connection to find a seat, but only on condition that Brazil win a SRX race, which he did.

“Detona 500 shot” almost “

In 2023, there was an opportunity for the four -time Indy 500 winner to run the Detona 500, but Castronways claimed that “it was not a good situation so I passed it. And then this year, Trackhouse and Project 91 K. Came about. ”He was referring to his rumor entry with the number 50 car operated by the money team racing, which was co-owned by the boxing legend Floid Mayweather, Junior. They were and many were in the gramlin lead. For the qualifying race, but they ended the 40-car field with another Indycar driver behind the wheel.

The trackhouse is a very strong position for casstronweus, which is in terms of the ability to give him the ability to support him with zero nascar experience. He praised the program what he had done to help prepare for further fighting, including an arc start on Saturday (before 500). Very early Learn both the draft and the lingo which is important in the pack race.

“(I want) to make sure that when I, the day of the race, I feel comfortable with at least a few scenarios,” Castraons explained. “But I still learn. I get four hours to learn something and hope to stay out of big people. I am sure a lot of contestants will not see me as a competitor, which is fine, but we ourselves, but we ourselves Trying to do some different strategies to keep in front and see what happens. “

Equires your right to make history

Fortunately, a fight will not be to fight him, there is really one to make the race. In a stunning step, NASCAR recently introduced a new provision to “world-level drivers”, such as to lock the casstronweus as an additional place on the grid if they do not make it traditional way to lock it in the race. Are. Castronavs had no knowledge of this new rule beforehand and admitted that they would have to run like 500 like 500. He was ready to face that challenge, but said about provision: “I was very happy to hear about it and I am going to try not to use it. However, if I want to use it, I will take it! ,

Many Indie 500 winners have tried NASCAR’s 500-Millar with Jax Villainuway, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Sam Hornish Junior. But since Detona 500 was introduced in 1959, only two Indie 500 champions have managed to make NASCAR – Mario Andratty in 1967 and AJ Foyt’s stars in 1972.

And the fact is that only two drivers have won both these respected races, something that fully knows about Castronavs. “How incredible it would be,” he imagined. “… only two drivers were able to win (both) in these races, which were AJ Foyt and Mario Andreti. It would be good to join those people, don’t you think?”