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Hard turn

By Shaun Assael
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, March 10, 2000

George Franchitti's eyes couldn't lie. All they could do was reflect the sorrow of the words he could not find. He had just watched his son Dario lose CART's championship by a single point -- a point that had been squandered a dozen different ways. George knew his son was fuming, that his heartbeat was still in his ears. "I'm sorry," he said. It took Dario a second to make out what his dad said next. "I'm sorry, son. Greg is dead." Franchitti knew that Greg Moore, his best friend, ...

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