You can learn a lot about someone by sitting next to them in an airport for five hours while you wait for your flight. All I really knew about Mikhail Aleshin before our tête-à-tête in Toronto was that he loved the loud pedal. But there's a lot more to the 29-year-old Russian racer than bravery. For instance: He once wrote a column on Formula 1 for a Moscow newspaper's website. "I feel asleep a lot during the races, but I wrote every week." He was instrumental in getting IndyCar races on television in his homeland. "I helped convince them [MATCH TV] to carry the races – the first one was the 2014 Indianapolis 500 and they're carrying the whole season this year....
Full Story »