$2000 Challenge: A Miata ran by a future Indy 500 tech specialist

• Entrant: Gracie Hackenberg, Aly de Silva and Jess Wert
• Event year: 2017
• Budget spent: $1725.23

From the $2000 Challenge to the Indy 500? Yep. Gracie Hackenberg (in front of the car) and her Smith College Racing crew–Aly de Silva and Jess Wert formed the team’s nucleus–joined us in 2017 with a salvage-title 1999 Miata. They kept the build simple–mostly sticky …

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Since then Gracie ... went over the wall as a tire changer for Juan Pablo Montoya at the Indy 500.

ok, that right there is pretty badass.

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

Absolutely badass

Sending to my 1st year engineering school daughter now...