![]() It’s also a unique story in modern day motorsports and the NTT Ind圜ar Series, which is full of fathers, sons and the 200 mph ties that bind them – an angle evident in Kirkwood’s team.Īndretti Autosport is built on three generations of racing royalty and race winners in Mario, Michael and Marco. Kyle is such a great story for the sport.” Kyle Kirkwood celebrates after winning the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach in his third start with Andretti Autosport (Gary A. Because the sport for so long has been if you don’t have money, you can’t make it. “It shows with really consistent dedication, perseverance and hard work, you can make it. “I’m just beyond humbled and grateful and relieved because this is what he has wanted all his life,” she said. Peggy fondly recalls hearing an adolescent Kyle make “Vroom! Vroom!” noises in his bedroom and constantly draw racetrack shapes while “driving them in his mind. It was an emotional evening, especially for Mom and Dad.” Everyone jumped up and down with high-fives, hugs and tears. “We’re sad we weren’t there for his first win, of course, but at the same time, the experience here was fantastic. “It was just 24 hours of joy,” Cam Kirkwood told NBC Sports about his youngest son’s homecoming. Then it was off again to Indianapolis for the Indy 500 Open Test – the fast-paced life of a budding superstar whose biggest and closest supporters also are accustomed to being often on the periphery of his career. Kirkwood had time to play a round of golf with his two older brothers (both of whom drove home immediately after his win), close on a new house nearby and celebrate with friends and family over a big dinner. Neighbors planted mini-checkered flags in the family’s front lawn. 27 Dallara-Honda sponsor AutoNation (“it looked like, ‘Congrats for having a girl!’ but it was congrats to me,” Kyle cracked). When Kyle arrived in South Florida from Southern California the following day, he was greeted by a massive “Congratulations!” banner and signs festooned with pink and white balloons to match the livery of No. INDYCAR AT BARBER: How to watch, schedules, start times for the race weekend I didn’t know the whole neighborhood was watching the race. “One of their mothers and fathers knocked on the door and said, ‘Hey, the whole neighborhood’s outside!’ So I went outside, and everybody was screaming and yelling and honking their horns. “We had a couple of the neighbors at our house and kids that Kyle grew up with and their babies,” Peggy Kirkwood told NBC Sports. When Kirkwood, 24, took the checkered flag April 15 in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the Jupiter, Florida, subdivision where he was raised (and still lives now) erupted – and interrupted a raucous viewing party at the home of Peggy and Cam Kirkwood. It took a village to turn Kyle Kirkwood into a winning Ind圜ar driver, and it took a neighborhood to celebrate the moment from 2,600 miles away.
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