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Rick Mears – still the ultimate pro at 65

For all race fans in the 30-70+ age range, it’s time to get nostalgic because one of the greatest Indy car drivers of all time turned 65 today. David Malsher – and more importantly, Roger Penske – pay tribute. Over the past 20-something years writing about racing, I’ve encountered three people from whom I learn something about the art of racecar driving every time we speak for longer than five minutes. One of those three is Rick Ravon Mears, born this day 65 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, and brought up in Bakersfield, Calif. As a writer whose engineering knowledge is at the primitive end of the scale, I’ve always sought to compensate for not knowing why something works by instead...
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