


Here’s some insight into how the deal came together, answers to some major questions and the road all the parties involve face in the coming days ahead of Sunday’s race: “There’s just so many conflicts and things that we had to work through to put this together, but it’s the Indy 500, and people come together to make this event and make it great like it is.” “It just goes all the way through the paddock, and it’s really a touching feeling that so many competitors can come together and work together. “(It’s amazing how) in a situation like this, the Ind圜ar community rallies around each other with all the help we got from everyone in the paddock and elsewhere,” Reinbold said. What those on the outside thought an impossible union, DRR, RLL, Honda, Chevy, Graham and all sides’ sponsors hashed out in a matter of hours before midnight Monday. In some ways, though, heaven and earth had to move to make such a union possible. 'We didn't earn it': Before Wilson's crash, Rahal said he wouldn't buy way into Indy 500 How it happened: Stefan Wilson suffers fractured vertebrae in Monday practice crash, will miss 500 It was an honor for me to receive the call, and I certainly am very grateful.” He’s done a great job to get it to the point that it is. “Right away, I felt compelled that this was, for some reason, my calling to be here, to be able to help as best I could and to fill in,” Rahal said Tuesday. 24 Chevy entry, made Rahal his first phone call. Because following Stefan Wilson's crash in Monday’s practice after he was ran into from behind by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Katherine Legge in Turn 1 of the IMS oval and left with a fractured thoracic vertebrae that has sidelined him for Sunday’s 500, Dennis Reinbold, the owner of Wilson’s No.
