— Bobby Rahal is justifiably proud as he surveys Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s brand-new race shop from his upper-level corner office. “The races are going to be pretty intense, and fans are going to respond to these cars — they look good and they sound good. Columbus was a 500-kilometer, single-driver street race, and I tell people the only car you could have done that in was a Porsche. The 962 was one of my favorite cars, a very comfortable car to drive. “I really liked sports car racing and that was a pretty good time in history to drive sports cars.”. “We had our first meeting in ’07, and the reason I pursued BMW was we were a one-trick pony in IndyCar,” Rahal said.

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