HELIO CASTRONEVES: “That’s it: I’m not the reigning champion anymore. Hopefully, winning the race here I’ll still be champion—Indy 500 champion. She did a great job. The best dancer definitely won the competition. The nerves definitely came back. I didn’t like it. I preferred to be dancing than watching. It was great to see everyone involved with the show again.”
Julianne Hough, a professional ballroom dancer who partnered with Helio Castroneves to win ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” last November, will lead the opening production of the 2008 IPL 500 Festival Parade.
Hough will join 400 members of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir as they perform the song “I Won’t Dance / Shall We Dance.”
The more than 300,000 spectators who are expected to line the 2-mile parade route will get a glimpse of the 33 starting drivers of the 92nd Indianapolis 500, more than 80 specialty units, floats, marching bands and entertainment groups, giant inflatable balloons and costumed characters, including Donnie and Eliza Thornberry, Cosmo and Wanda, the Pink Panther and the Care Bears.
TONY STEWART (Two-time Allstate 400 at the Brickyard winner): “The winner of the 92nd Indianapolis 500 has a standing offer to compete in this year’s Old Spice Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway. We’ll have a car waiting for him or her, and we’d love to have whoever puts their name on the Borg-Warner Trophy at Indianapolis come about two hours east and compete in a dirt late model to raise money for charity. There are many talented drivers competing in this year’s Indianapolis 500. We’d love to have whoever wins come to Eldora. It’d be great to see Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Dan Wheldon, Scott Dixon, Marco Andretti, Danica Patrick, Graham Rahal or any of the other 26 talented IndyCar Series drivers in this year’s Indy 500 try their hand behind the wheel of a dirt late model.”
Indianapolis 500 veteran Sarah Fisher is continuing her role as TAG Heuer brand ambassador by promoting the motorsport-inspired TAG Heuer “Avant Garde” Eyewear.
Fisher will start 22nd in the 92nd Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.
SARAH FISHER: “TAG Heuer Eyewear has been a great partner of mine. For them to believe in what we are trying to accomplish means a lot to our entire team. I’m honored to represent them.”
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