AL UNSER: Well, it was one of those times when I came back here, I elected to come back without a ride because there wasn’t a car that I really wanted to drive that I thought could win. All the good cars and the good teams were already taken. So I elected to kind of sit out and then go home after the first weekend of qualifying. And then my son, Al Jr., didn’t qualify, so I decided to stay here and see if I could help him.
And then Danny Ongais had his problem, and they didn’t release him. So Roger (Penske) called me and asked me if I would run his third car and I said, “Dang right, ” because that’s the kind of team I wanted. And to be able to pull off what happened was just a terrific deal.
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