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The key to Alonso's Indy deal? Stefan Wilson
Mark Miles and Zak Brown were friends before one became President & CEO of Hulman & Company and the other took over McLaren. But together they figured out a way to help boost the Indianapolis 500's profile and check off a box on a two-time Formula 1 champion's bucket list."I got a call from Zak and he wondered if we could put a Honda deal together so Fernando could run in this year's Indy 500," Miles told RACER.com. "I said we would move heaven and earth to make that happen."So I contacted four Honda teams and he contacted one, but we couldn't find an engine. And then we got lucky."Stefan Wilson already had a deal to run Indianapolis in a car linked to Andretti...
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