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SUPERSTAR IN THE MAKING? Sam Hornish Jr. does what no other Penske driver has ever done, winning his first race with the team.(Racing)
Byline: CURT CAVIN
The rest of the IRL collectively groaned "uh oh.''
Watching Sam Hornish Jr. win the season-opening race for Team Penske, the most successful operation in Indy car history, could not have been pleasant for the 18 other competitors in the Toyota Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. And while Helio Castroneves enjoyed racing with his new teammate, the Brazilian had to be shaking his head when the 24-year-old Defiance, Ohio, native slipped past him yet again.
Hornish did the same thing to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner in the 2002 season-ending race at Texas Motor Speed-way. There was even more on the line that day: a championship, in fact, which became Hornish's second in a row. He won his first title while Penske was still in CART.
When Hornish was announced as the replacement for the retiring Gil de Ferran, there was a fear he might dominate like never before. Nothing Sunday suggested otherwise, even though the driver Penske compares to Rick Mears led only six of the 200 laps. Hornish later admitted he "allowed'' Castroneves to lead a big mid-race stint so he could conserve fuel and they could put some distance on the competitive field.
At the end, when Castroneves was feeling pretty good about his lead over 11 straight laps, Hornish outsmarted his teammate with an improbable last-lap move. Hornish has made a living off of darting to the outside and inching past his competitor at the finish line. Knowing that, Castroneves did what anyone would do. He blocked the outside.
"I said, you know what? This guy's not going to beat me on the outside,'' Castroneves recalled. "If I let him go on the outside, I will not sleep tonight.''
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Source: HighBeam Research, SUPERSTAR IN THE MAKING? Sam Hornish Jr. does what no other Penske...