His path instead took a left turn to Indianapolis in pursuit of a career in racing. “I love baseball, I love racing, and if I wasn’t doing one I would be doing the other,” Steinbrenner, 22, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Steinbrenner IV, just 22 years old, is the youngest owner of an IndyCar team and on Sunday became the newest member of the winner’s club. Neither envisioned a celebration so soon in this new endeavour and early success for the young Harding Steinbrenner Racing team — in business only 19 months, strengthened by Steinbrenner just last September — is inexplicable. “IndyCar fans seem to love the involvement because they want to see new faces and they want to see younger people in the sport,” Steinbrenner said.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 21:45 UTC