Bryan Herta and son Colton shared the racetrack together in their respective IndyCar rides and experienced a memory that will last a lifetime on Wednesday at Laguna Seca.
Bryan got behind the wheel of his Reynard-Ford Cosworth, sporting the black, yellow and white colors of the iconic Shell livery he drove to victory 2.238-mile, 11-turn natural terrain road course in 1998.
"It wasn't very fast, but I was able to push some corners hard enough to really feel the car," Bryan said."Frankly, I'm not in good enough shape. It's more physical than I could extract out of the car. Then, the kid got his turn in his dad's hotrod. Colton received a final bit of advice from his father about the rev limiter and shift points but was then let loose, immediately stomping the pedal as the backend danced leaving pit lane.
"Sometimes you get guys that run historics and whatnot, but this is a proper-prepared car and I was driving it to the best of my abilities. It was really cool to be able to get a chance to do that. You don't usually get to do that with some of these historic cars."Like his dad, Colton is a two-time winner at the Monterey circuit, provided his own assessment of how his father's car from more than two decades ago compares to the cars currently raced in the IndyCar Series.
"The biggest thing for me was the methanol [fuel]. When you slow down into those slow corners, all that exhaust piles into the cockpit and it's finally forced forward, and you can't breathe in the thing sometimes. I can't imagine starting at the back of the grid for the races; what it must be like for the first lap. You probably can't see or breathe.
"They were like, 'Absolutely, we want to do it. Let's run with it,'" Bryan said."But then, they, the Andretti team, everybody embraced it. You know, what's so heartwarming for me is to see how much effort everybody put into it.
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