I remember it. Walter is my all-time stick and ball sports hero. I got to meet him in the garage area at Michigan International Speedway at a CART race back in 1996. I talked to him a little bit and got to shake his hand...which just about broke mine with his grip.

I wanted him to sign something, but the only thing close was an Andre Ribeiro (pretty good Indy driver back in those days) hero card. He said, I guess I can sign that. So he turned it over. The card had more information on the back as well as a picture of Steve Horne who was the President of Tasman motosports. He said, well I can sign this even though it's not us, but I will have to do some drawing on it. So he put a French bare, a monocle, moustache, and beard on Steve with the Sharpie. He then signed his name next to it. He told me that he felt better about signing it and he thought Steve looked better. I'll never forget that and I still have the card with all of my other racing stuff.

It was pretty cool that Coyne's team got a win this year at Watkins Glen after all of those years of trying. I thought of Walter and I'm sure they did too.