There are plenty of other cars we can use and we will definitely do that. We just hope we find this one.

We don't talk anybody into taking a ride. She did one lap, hit the red button, came in, wanted to go back out. That's when we made it the policy ? if you hit the red button, you don't go back out.

This is my assumption. Someone came to steal the trailer and when they opened it realized, 'Oh, now I've got an Indy car. Now what?' So I'm going to make the assumption it's going to surface somewhere here in the next few days. But you never know.

I envisioned putting in a second seat. Then I could experience everything and I wouldn't have to worry. Then we started talking, drew it up and presented it to (IRL president) Tony George in 1999. He thought the idea was good as long as the cars were real.

If you could imagine, you have this Indy car that (is) suddenly missing. It didn't feel good, I got to tell you that.

We handle the IRL show car program, and through that we handle the Racing For Kids. Robbie Buhl takes this car to hospitals and so forth around the country. We also do a lot of work for the IRL safety crew.

Someone tipped them off that it was going down the interstate, and the next tip they got, it was in a field on the southeast side. That's where it was found. It was just dumped. ... It looked like it wasn't even touched.