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Four-Time Indy 500 Winner Rick Mears Joins!

Query & Company

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3.1759 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears joins Query & Company from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to discuss the domination from Team Penske yesterday at qualifications, shares why he believes he was so humble about all his wins in his career at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, agrees with Jake that the race is the easiest part of the month, and reveals how often he and Gordon Johncock talk about the finish to the 1982 Indianapolis 500.

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0:00.0

Rick Mears, head toork number four.

0:02.6

He found the main straightaway.

0:03.9

Here's Bob Jenkins.

0:05.6

Rick Mears becomes the third four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500,

0:11.1

winning the Diamond Jubilee Edition, the 75th running of this great speed classic.

0:16.9

Rick Mears has won the Indianapolis 500-mile race.

0:22.0

I would have that as my ringtone.

0:24.9

Rick Mears listening to Bob Lamy and the late great Bob Jenkins on the call in 1991,

0:32.7

when Rick Mears became at that time the third four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500-mile race and a guy who

0:39.5

he has helped an awful lot over the years. Eleo Castor Nevis joins that group. But Rick, first off,

0:44.0

thanks so much for coming over, man. I appreciate it. Thank you very much for having me.

0:47.4

Let's begin with this. And we'll get to, you know, I know that most people know. I mean,

0:51.6

you are obviously still involved with Roger Penske's team team in a number of capacities we'll get to that but just this place you know you are so

1:01.2

synonymous with success here and you kind of owned it you know four of them in 12 years speaks for

1:08.1

itself but what is the the sentiment or the emotion of rick mears still when you

1:13.5

walk in here oh it's you know first of all i never believed i'd ever be here i didn't even think

1:20.2

about being here that was way out of my league so you know when i got the opportunity to start

1:23.4

driving any cars and ended up coming here i I had no idea that would ever happen.

1:28.2

So it's just, it's almost been one of those fairy tale stories all the way through.

1:32.9

But it's just, you know, and now it's home away from home for as many years as we've been

1:36.8

coming here.

1:38.7

But it's just a, there's no other place like it.

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