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Rahal then asked Mario to tell a story about taping Bobby Unser inside a phone booth immediately before Unser was to got out to qualify for a USAC Championship race at Hanford, California.

"Bobby had it coming," Mario grinned. "We're driving back from the track. I don't know why he was riding with me. Maybe he was too cheap to get a rental car, but we were driving, again, in a brand new Hertz rental car. I'm coming off the freeway and he blindfolds me. Of course, boom, we hit a curb and blow the left front tire.

"I said, I'm not going to change a tire, so I just kept driving and the thing pretty much caught fire. I finally pulled over, and Bobby starts jumping up and down on the roof of my car. He tries to stop somebody, and who stops? Danny Jones of Ford. I said 'Where the hell is the spare tire in this thing?' He goes in the trunk, so we jumped in his car and took off! So I felt we owed Bobby one.

"The next day we're all waiting to qualify. After I ran, I paged Bobby to take an emergency call in a phone booth. He ran over there and I taped him in. Judd Phillips was looking for him and he missed his qualifying run. Can you imagine that today? There was some retaliation later..."

Let's see...500 WBC protesters vs 250K race fans...
http://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/ ... -indy-500/

Burn'em.

Picket'em.

Ignore'em.

After the race, Helio Castroneves tweeted a photo and a message to Indycar, blasting the officiating. Helio received a penalty in the race, knocking him out of the top-ten. Upon tweeting this, it was instantly deleted. Helio would later go on to tweet that it was his sister who tweeted that. Mhmm, right.... From now on, we will blame Helio's sister for all the wrongdoings.