{"id":496917,"date":"2017-09-01T01:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T08:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=50221"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:35:05","slug":"winning-number-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/winning-number-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Number Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My fourth win at Indy was the best for a lot of reasons. The first will always have its place because of being the first, but having won on my second attempt, I didn\u2019t appreciate what it was going to take to do it and how fortunate we were to win it that early. As I grew a little older and got a little wiser, I was able to appreciate the whole history of the Speedway more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then the way the race itself all came out was textbook. My normal game plan, from Day 1, never really changed. It\u2019s the same whether it\u2019s a 50-lap race or a 200-lap race. I spend the first half getting to the second half. Then, if we\u2019re not where we need to be, the second half is getting to where we need to be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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