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What a difference a year makes for young Pato O’Ward. The 21-year-old from Monterrey, Mexico, was bumped from the field during qualifications for the 2020 Indianapolis 500 but found himself quickest one year later in final practice for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. O’Ward is also fourth in the championship …

After a 2012 drag-strip crash that left him blind, Dan Parker didn’t give up his racing dreams. The crash happened in a 1963 Corvette, so his new project uses a 2008 C6 painted in the same colors. The current blind speed record—yes, there is one—is 200.9 mph, which Parker is …