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Hornish vying for the triple in IRL.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Cammy Clark
MIAMI _ Sam Hornish Jr. won his first Indy Racing League championship in 2001 by a landslide. He won his second one last year by .0096 seconds. Now the 23-year-old country boy from Defiance, Ohio, will try for three in a row.
He starts his quest at 1 p.m. on Sunday in the Toyota Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where he is the two-time defending champion.
Winning three consecutive titles is a rare feat in any major racing league. In the 55-year history of NASCAR, only Cale Yarborough has won three Winston Cups in a row, 1977-79. Nobody has accomplished the feat in the 24-year history of Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). And one has to go back to the 1950s to find a driver who has won three titles in a row in Formula One, legend Juan Manuel Fangio.
With an even stronger field in the IRL this year, Hornish is somewhat of an underdog to win it again, even if the odds weren't stacked against him and his one-car racing team, Pennzoil Panthers Racing.
That's the way Hornish and his team like it.
``We're like the little engine that could,'' said Mike Griffin, one of five owners of the Indianapolis-based team that was formed in 1998. ``In the first year, nobody knew who Sam was. It was like, `Why did they hire this kid?' He went on to win the championship and everybody went, `Oh, that was pretty impressive.'
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