The Vegas odds of Al Unser winning the 1987 Indianapolis 500 were off the charts, literally and figuratively, because the three-time winner had no ride during the first week of practice. "It was the first time I'd ever come to Indy without a ride and I was just hanging around but it was boring, and I told myself if I didn't have a ride by a certain day then I was going back to Albuquerque," he recalled 30 years later. "And then Danny got hurt." After Danny Ongais piled into the wall on May 7, the day before qualifying began, he suffered a concussion and was expected to be on the sidelines a few days but was ruled out of action six days later by the IMS medical staff....
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