American rookie Alexander Rossi wins 100th Indy 500 Alexander Rossi spent his entire career prior to this year racing on road and street courses, the kind that turn left and right and require deft braking and shifting. They are not skills that apply to oval racing, where the turns are all to the left and braking and shifting are used almost exclusively for pit stops. In the second oval of his life, Rossi took on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the most challenging and dangerous race track in the world, Sunday in the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500. He turned it into a triumph that will be remembered in the same way Ray Harroun’s win in the inaugural Indy 500 in 1911 is one that will never be forgotten. He climbed the highest mountain, the Mount Everest of motor racing, in his first try. Rossi is the first rookie to win at Indy since Helio Castroneves in 2001 and Castroneves had extensive experience racing on ovals in the IndyCar rival CART series. Read more http://www.si.com/racing/2016/05/29/alexander-rossi-wins-indy-500-andretti-f1
