INDIANAPOLIS — Only one of the 33 starters in Sunday’s 99th running of the Indianapolis 500 has a chance to truly make history.
Helio Castroneves is the only active driver who has won the race three times. If he wins again, he will join A. J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser as the race’s only four-time champions.
“You don’t get that many chances to win four,” Unser said Friday. “Helio has to be asking himself if last year he missed his best chance. He must be asking himself: ‘What could I have done differently? What should I have done?