Mike O'Gara has won races all over the world. From the Daytona 500 to the Le Mans 24-hour race in France, but never the Indianapolis 500. Until this year.
INDIANAPOLIS — Mike O'Gara has won races all over the world. From the Daytona 500 to the Le Mans 24-hour race in France, but never the Indianapolis 500. Until this year.It's perhaps the sweetest win for the Indianapolis native. O'Gara helped coach Marcus Ericsson to the pinnacle, an Indy 500 victory.
Strategizing to get the win, is a job that isn't easy, and O'Gara says it got tricky with the flag thrown in the last few laps of the 500. "I have been passionate about the speedway ever since I can remember. We used to listen to the race on the radio," O'Gara said."I would come home every day from school during May and watch what was called Happy Hour, which was the last hour of practice. It was televised by every news channel," he said.
"A stack of tires without wheels on it, they're pretty big wheels and I could stand inside the stack of tires and they're driving the golf cart into the track," he said. "This is the biggest one. He's fought for this for a long time. This was the one check, this was the last one," she said."This was the last big one, he's won Daytona, he's won Le Mans, but the Indy 500 was always the one he was always after and I'm glad he was able to get it done, and now he's probably not retiring. Not yet anyway.
Sit down with son of Local Race Strategist "It was a good day for sure," O'Gara's son Austin said."It was pretty cool to see the Ganassi team pretty dominate all day.""I was crying right away. That's pretty normal for the men in our family to start crying. But pretty special for my dad. He's won a lot of big races, he's won races all over the world but winning one in Indy I think that's pretty special for him," he said.
"My dad was my ride or die. He went to so many races with me. Even when he wasn't healthy enough to make the walks, or healthy enough to be there. He was on the phone texting me."
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