Alex Lloyd’s most important race this weekend might not come at the Indianapolis 500.
It could be rushing his expectant wife safely to the hospital. Or making that mad dash on a golf cart to the track’s infield medical center. Or helping her deliver their second child.
“When they told us, I thought, it’s just typical,” Samantha Lloyd said, laughing in her husband’s garage. “We already have a name picked out, Bethany. But if she arrives on race day, we’ll probably have to switch and go with something with a little more racing flavor.”
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So as Lloyd prepares for the biggest event of the IndyCar season, his wife, Samantha, will be sitting patiently and quietly along pit road hoping the doctors got that May 24 due date wrong.
“When they told us, I thought, it’s just typical,” Samantha Lloyd said, laughing in her husband’s garage. “We already have a name picked out, Bethany. But if she arrives on race day, we’ll probably have to switch and go with something with a little more racing flavor.”
“I’m just going to drive faster and when I get the checkered flag, then they can tell me if something has happened,” he said. “If they tell me, I’m just going to tell them to open the gates and let me go because I can get there in this car a lot faster than I can in another car.”
After watching his wife endure 28 hours of labor when their first child, Ava, was born in October 2007, Lloyd figures he has plenty of time to finish the race and get to the hospital.
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“I’d probably have time to finish the race, chill out, have a cup of tea and still have 12 hours to go,” he said, likely drawing the ire of pregnant women everywhere.
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