Column: Rossi Ends Season With a Win, Eyes on IndyCar

Column: Rossi Ends Season With a Win, Eyes on IndyCar
Alexander Rossi waits before practice for the IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix auto racing doubleheader on Belle Isle in Detroit, on June 11, 2021. Paul Sancya/AP Photo
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Alexander Rossi white-knuckled a Honda Ridgeline through the dark and the fog, off-roading along Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula at 100 mph. Insanity, it sounds like, especially for a driver who already had a pair of close calls in both of his previous appearances in the Baja 100.

Rossi nearly had a head-on collision with an SUV and still finished second in his 2018 debut in the prestigious off-road adventure. The next year, Rossi botched a 90-degree turn and rolled his truck into a ditch.