Winning the Indianapolis 500 once is the kind of feat that can make a man immortal in the American open-wheel racing world. Winning it twice is more than most racers could ever dream of (or achieve). But Takuma Sato won’t be satisfied until he sips that milk for a third time.
The first Japanese driver to win the Indy 500 sat down with select media, including The Drive, ahead of the race’s 110th running for a round table organized by Honda, and his demeanor could only be described as reflective.
Sato began the interview by reliving a moment in the early 1980s that has been embedded in his memory ever since. He told us that, back in 1987, he attended his first-ever race, the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, “but a couple of years before — I might be age six or seven,” he cranked the rotary dial on his television to the TBS channel and saw a car.
“The car went extremely fast,” he remembered with a smile, “and that wasn’t Formula 1. That must be the Indy 5 …
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Author: Elizabeth Blackstock
