Bryan Herta lost his dear friend, teammate and driver Dan Wheldon five years ago this Sunday in a crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and like so many I've spoken to this week, he said the ordeal felt incredibly recent and distant at the same time. "Has it been five years already? Holy crap," he said in a call earlier this week. "Intellectually I know it's five years, but it's strange. In some ways it seems like it couldn't be five years already, but in other ways, it seems longer. It's the inevitable outcome when a vivid character like Wheldon is taken from a sport where lively personalities are increasingly hard to find. The distance – five years – is long enough to...
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