WHITELAND — Doug Boles gave him an out.
You don’t have to drink the milk if you don’t want to, the president of Indianapolis Motor Speedway told Ed Carpenter in front of dozens of onlookers. You probably don’t want to tempt fate heading into May’s 101st running of the Indianapolis 500.
Nah, Carpenter said, throwing caution to the wind. “I’m not one of those superstitious drivers.”
And with the faces of the Borg Warner trophy looking on, perhaps in horror, he drank.
“A lot of people think driving a green race car is bad luck,” the Verizon IndyCar Series team owner and driver said with a smile. “Eating peanuts at the race track, too. So I guess I just break the mold.”
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