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Article: Open-Wheel Racing Returns to Watkins Glen
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- September 21, 2005
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JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
09-21-2005
Dateline: WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.
Woo-hoo! Helio Castroneves hardly could control his glee the first time he drove through the famed Boot at Watkins Glen International, squealing the tires on a damp racetrack in 40-degree weather last October.
And he was in a rented Pontiac sedan instead of his Toyota-powered IRL race car.
"The place is just fantastic!" Castroneves said. "It's going to create a great show for everyone."
Open-wheel racing returns to The Glen this weekend for the first time in 24 years for the inaugural Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix, and another guy in particular hardly can wait.
Eighty-four-year-old Cameron Argetsinger, the man who ...