To appreciate Firestone scoring its 500th IndyCar victory last Saturday night since its return to the open-wheel wars in 1995, you have to revisit how it all came together. And that requires a little trip down memory lane with Scott Pruett. "The way Bridgestone/Firestone came back into Indy car racing was spot-on," said Pruett, whose IndyCar career had stalled out before being hired by Pat Patrick in 1993 to become the test pilot for Firestone's re-entry. "We tested thousands and thousands of miles the year before coming back to racing, and we showed up at the tracks after every race, and ran and ran and ran as hard as I could drive. "It got pretty monotonous...
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