Bush meets with Indy 500 winner
(AP)
Updated: 2006-07-19 08:47
WASHINGTON - This year's Indianapolis 500 winner, Sam Hornish Jr., didn't
offer President Bush any driving tips Tuesday when he met with him in the Oval
Office, but he did give the president one of his helmets.
U.S. President Bush,
left, with Sam Hornish Jr., right, winner of the 2006 Indianapolis 500,
and his wife Crystal Hornish, center, as they stand next to the
Borg-Warner Trophy at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the
White House, Tuesday, July 18, 2006.[AP] |
"Hopefully, if he decides that he needs to go fast, he'll be properly
equipped anyhow," Hornish told reporters outside the West Wing after meeting
with Bush for a photo-op.
Hornish of Defiance, Ohio, said the president didn't tell him whether he
watched the race. But Hornish said the president told him: "It was a pretty
unbelievable finish."
In a dazzling last-second move at the race in May, Hornish whipped around
another driver on the final straightaway and won the second-closest Indy ever by
.0635 seconds, or a little more than a car length.
"He (Bush) said that it's pretty neat that somebody from a small town in Ohio
can grow up and achieve something like winning the Indianapolis 500, which I
take as a pretty big compliment," Hornish said.
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