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Starting 28 th in the field of 31, Shank and the unloved R&S chassis made the most of the opportunity. However, in the meantime, we found a guy that decided to come on board and help us financially to try to do an Ind圜ar race, and that’s that ultimately ended with us doing Las Vegas together. And that next year, we bought a Ralt and ran a client and that led to that, which is as it was meant to be.
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“Just the year before we’d won the C2 Atlantic championship which, that’s all we could afford,” he said.
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Success in Atlantic’s second tier brought Michael Shank Racing forward as more than a team to look after its owner/driver, and from there, the modern version of MSR was born as fielding clients in junior open-wheel and sports car racing became the norm.īut before he hung up his helmet, Shank had a chance to do one IRL race in a less-than-competitive Riley & Scott chassis powered by an Oldsmobile engine at the 1997 season finale in Las Vegas (main image). He came up through the Midwest Sports Car Club of America ranks in Formula Ford 2000 and Sports 2000s, graduated to the Toyota Atlantic Championship in the mid-1990s using an older Swift DB-4 chassis and began running cars for other drivers. He wasn’t Indy-winning material, but that didn’t stop him from making his one and only Ind圜ar start back in 1997 with Nienhouse Motorsports in the Indy Racing League.
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Michael Shank was a good race car driver back in the day. Here’s a few things you may or may not know about the newest team owners to win the Indianapolis 500: