INDIANAPOLIS – Santino Ferrucci is late for our interview because he’s walking his dog. Already I like the guy. We’d been planning to speak near his motorcoach inside Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but this is better. He’s walking his dog, is he? Well then let’s go find—
Sure enough, there’s Santino Ferrucci. A few days after one of the 10 fastest qualifying attempts in Indianapolis 500 history, he’s walking his dog on the IMS infield. Well, more like the dog is walking him. A Great Dane, biggest head you ever saw, is patrolling the grass as Ferrucci follows her, his right hand covered in what we in the dog-walking business call a “poop bag.”
