...I didn't know Robin was so into a connection between Indycars and dirt-tracks, as when Tony George tried that with the IRL, he bad mouthed it enough to get kicked off the grounds!!! lol...meanwhile, Donnie Beechler won the 100 on May 22, 1998, & 2 days later made his 500 debut!!!...Leffler & Yeley both also ran the 500 and won this race too...gota say, it seems like Robin copied & pasted some OLD story he had...lol.

If anyone want's a "modern-era" "big-league" racing connection, you can take the last two names (from above), add Josh Wise, & one Jeff Gordon (altho NOT the Hoosier 100, but the Hulman 100), as those who won there (in Silver Crowns) & then went on to race on network TV on Saturday & Sundays...sure plenty more sprinkled thru the results too (like even a Tony Stewart? lol)...