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RAHAL’S ROUGH WEEK

Bobby Rahal, the 1986Indy 500winner and part owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, has had perhaps his worst trip to Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 1993, when he was bumped from the field in the last minutes of qualifying.

Three of the team’s four cars were in the last-four shootout to make the field last weekend, and his son Graham Rahal was bumped by teammate Jack Harvey as time expired in qualifying. Then, the following day, a crash in practice by Stefan Wilson opened up a ride for the younger Rahal, putting him against his dad’s team in the Dreyer & Reinbold entry on Sunday.

“It’s been a tough week on him. It’s a tough week on all of us,” Graham Rahal said after final practice on Friday. “I don’t think people realize how much Dad puts in all of this. He loves this. He doesn’t need to do this. He wants to win it; he wants to win with me. I think it’s

been very disappointing for the cars not to be better.”

WILSON GETS WALKING

IndyCar driver Stefan Wilson, who had surgery to stabilize a fractured vertebrae earlier this week, posted a video on social media Saturday that showed him gingerly standing up from his hospital bed and taking a few careful steps toward the door.

“I’m back,” he said with a smile, pointing at his back, which was in a brace.

Wilson’s car was struck from behind by Katherine Legge in practice on Monday, sending both cars careening into the outer wall in Turns 1and 2. Legge walked away uninjured, but Wilson was transported to Methodist Hospital with a back injury.

Graham Rahal was hired to replace him in the No. 24 car. The driver change means Rahal will start last.