I have a long personal history with auto racing. My grandfather on my mother’s side, Samuel Castranova, raced on wooden tracks in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1920s and ’30s and captivated me as a youngster with tales of pit lane engine fires, leather helmets, and racing at speeds upward of 100 miles per hour. That might seem pedestrian in an era where Indy cars routinely turn laps at more than twice that speed, but 100 mph was
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