It was a result nobody predicted. Robert Shwartzman’s pole for this year’s Indianapolis 500, his maiden oval outing, was the first achieved by a rookie at the Brickyard in over 40 years.
Still more remarkable was his Prema team usurping the US open-wheel elite at its first crack. That Shwartzman didn’t have the luxury of a back-up car only exacerbated the impression that this was a feel-good story of the kind rarely seen in motorsport.
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