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Rookies break out of the gate impressively as Indy 500 festivities begin

By John Schwarb
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, May 4, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS -- Graham Rahal had never taken a lap around Indianapolis Motor Speedway before Sunday. Certainly not in a race car, not in a street car and not on a joyride with his 1986 Indianapolis 500-winning father Bobby Rahal. Nothing. It would have been understandable if he had felt some goose bumps while putting his Newman/Haas/Lanigan machine through its first paces on the famed 2.5-mile oval during opening day at the Speedway and the first of two rookie orientation days. Instead, he said ...

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