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MILLER: The Mayor's old-school mettle
James Hinchcliffe isn't the first driver to make a courageous comeback from near-fatal injuries – just the latest. Jim Hurtubise and Mel Kenyon literally rose from the ashes in the mid-'60s, Lee Kunzman evaded the Grim Reaper twice in the 1970s, Alex Zanardi cheated death in 2001 and A.J. Foyt outran the devil on more than one occasion during his 35 years of IndyCar combat. They all shared two traits – impatience to get back behind the wheel and a mental toughness that allowed them not to give it a second thought. Herk, Miraculous Mel and Kunzman were badly burned and endured months of painful skin grafting while Zanardi had to learn to walk again with prosthetic legs and Super Tex was...
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