Glad he recovered. His team owner is former Indy car racer Sam Schmidt who had a crash at Walt Disney World Speedway that left him paralyzed.
I was on the other side of the fence in a school bus changing out of band uniform into street close. Took awhile to want to go back. When I did sat twice in the good seats behind the pits.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Indianapolis_500