Which assignment was harder for Dale Coyne Racing engineer Craig Hampson within the last week? Was it learning the needs of IndyCar's new bodywork with driver Sebastien Bourdais at ISM Raceway in Phoenix (pictured above), or spending his first day as a teacher at his daughter's middle school in Illinois? As the championship-winning race engineer tells it, prepping a lesson plan for a group of extra smart eighth graders might have been a taller task than making the Frenchman happy on the one-mile oval. "We have very good schools in our town, which is the reason we live in the greater Chicago area, and my oldest daughter started middle school this year and is in an advanced math...
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