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He didn’t get the trophy, but he did get the girl pace car. San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh - who quarterbacked the Indianapolis Colts from 1994 to 1997 - will lead the 33-car Indianapolis 500 field around The Brickyard in a 2014 Corvette Stingray pace car.
Harbaugh’s other connection to the race is that he’s a principal in Panther Racing, which has two cars running on Sunday that are powered by Chevrolet engines: JR Hildebrand is starting tenth, teammate Townsend Bell is 22nd. There’s a press release below with the kind of juicy quotes you’d expect from all involved.Continue reading Jim Harbaugh picked to drive Indy 500 Corvette Stingray pace car
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