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One astonishing act of valor and sportsmanship sums up the legacy of race car driver Gary Bettenhausen, who died last week at 72.
It happened at the 1971 Indianapolis 500. I was there, with my brother, sitting at the far north end of the main straightaway. We were witnesses.
At about the 400-mile mark of the race, Mike Mosley came roaring out of the No. 4 turn, lost a tire, slammed into the outside retaining wall and spun into the infield...