The start-finish line at Indianapolis Motor Speedway has always been a clean, white color. Not so this month. The painted strip – stretching across the 106-year-old track adjacent to the famous “Yard of Bricks” and marking the location of victory where Indianapolis 500 winners and legends are made – has been turned pink to symbolize the global battle against breast cancer. In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Pippa Mann, who has driven the pink-and-white Susan G. Komen car in the past two Indianapolis 500 Mile Races, IMS President J. Douglas Boles and a group of breast cancer survivors got on their knees with paint rollers and applied the colorful change....
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