Rick Mears will join Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, George Follmer, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, David Hobbs, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske, Brian Redman and Bobby Unser on the list of legends to be honoured by the Road Racing Drivers Club in Long Beach later today. The evening’s emcee and RRDC president Bobby Rahal, along with organiser Jeremy Shaw, are to be congratulated on ensuring the “Thursday dinner before Long Beach” is one of the must-attend social events in the motorsport calendar.
Some of Mears’ stats are well known. Chief among them are the record-matching four Indianapolis 500 wins, the six Indy 500 poles (a record that may stand forever) and 11 front-row starts from 16 attempts, plus three Indycar championships, 29 race wins and 40 pole positions.
Most know, too, that Mears came from a desert-racing background, his parents Bill (who sadly died just two weeks ago, aged 93) and Mae Louise having moved their young sons Roger and Rick from Wichita to Bakersfield in…
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