ALMOST LAST WORD

“THE CARNAGE. WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, YOU FIGURED THAT’S JUST THE WAY IT WAS. BUT WHEN YOU GOT OLD ENOUGH, IT WAS REALLY PRETTY HARD TO TAKE.”

David Letterman to “The Indianapolis Star” on the 1973 Indianapolis 500 in which two drivers and a pit crewmember died and a third driver was badly burned. He stayed away for 13 years and now co-owns Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.