Fielding the #25 GM Goodwrench/Panavision March 86C-Buick V6, Ongais dropped out with a mechanical failure. He was a motorcycle champion in Hawaii when he decided to come to the mainland United States and go racing. The highlight of their sports car endeavours during this time was a victory in the 1979 24 Hours of Daytona, with Ongais and Field sharing their Interscope Porsche 935 with Hurley Haywood.[6]. Thompson, the onetime land speed record-holder, was campaigning a team at Indianapolis and promised to give Ongais a ride. Ongais has been a man of mystery since he first arrived on the mainland from his native Hawaii and set the world of drag racing on its ear. Phil Burgess can be reached at[emailprotected], Hundreds of more articles like this can be found in theDRAGSTER INSIDER COLUMN ARCHIVE, Or try theRandom Dragster Insider story generator, Long before Danny Ongais became a household name as a revered IndyCar driver, he belonged to the world of drag racing, where he first sated his need for speed. Arrow McLaren was known as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports before McLaren gradually became the majority owner in mid-2021. He has also interviewed a plethora of sporting personalities. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker. That is what you do in drag racing. WebDanny Ongais, the only Hawaiian to drive in the Indy 500 and one of the most versatile drivers of his era, died Feb. 26 of congestive heart complications in Anaheim Hills, He took stints in cars owned by the great Mickey Thompson and the Beaver brothers, accumulating more driving and tuning knowledge as he went. Zak also leads the charge in that. Ongais dominated in SCCA competition in 1974, catching the eye of media mogul Ted Field, who had recently founded the Interscope Records label. He competed Thompson and Ongais also teamed up to set nearly 300 national and international speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Mach 1 Mustang during the 1960s. That earned him such nicknames as The Flyin Hawaiian and Danny On-The-Gas.. Next, he wants a man who will project the Penske image to sponsors and the press. (Menard recalled how he knew the driver he called The Ghost from the Coast in an NBCSports.com interview last year. Why Grosjean's oval commitment shows he's serious about IndyCar. Ongais also began drag racing in the early 60s and became one of the top straight-line competitors in America into the early 1970s. Ongais Indy 500 career ended with him leading in four races for 79 total laps. Though casting a wide recruitment net dovetails with McLarens progressive outlook, Ward said its also by necessity because for sure, the whole paddock has been in a fight to get the best people.. What a likable guy in every way. When he got his chance, he did not disappoint anyone. Ongais` life took a wrong turn up a one-way street Thursday, when he destroyed his most precious possession. In the unlikeliest alliance since Rocky joined forces with Apollo Creed, Ongais had contracted to drive a single race for Penske, the May 24 Indianapolis 500. It takes some investment.. The only native of Hawaii to start the Indianapolis 500, Ongais was nicknamed Danny On-The-Gas and the Flyin Hawaiian for his bravery and commitment in overpowered late 70s Indy cars, but his love of speed had shown itself far earlier. Ongais was the only native Hawaiian to compete in the Indianapolis 500. He was 79. 39 on the list of the Top 50 Racers in 2000, the same year that he served as the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion grand marshal and was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. NASCAR 2023 at Las Vegas schedule, entry list, and how to watch, F1 Bahrain Grand Prix: How to watch on TV in the USA on ESPN, F1 Bahrain Grand Prix: How to watch on TV in the USA on ESPN Click to reveal In Sundays Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Gundlach and Hackenberg (a damper specialist who also works on pit stops) will begin their third year together in the engineering department of Arrow McLaren as the team enters its most critical season yet in trying to become a perennial powerhouse championship contender. RIP Danny Ongais pic.twitter.com/AqJW32Ko2o, Arie Luyendyk (@ArieLuyendyk) March 1, 2022. Its really exciting to be part of a group that still has ties to everyone being very hungry and ambitious and could do all sorts of roles and do whatever needed to be done. While Ongais was known for his blazing speed at Indianapolis and elsewhere, he also attracted attention for surviving some of the most violent crashes of his era. ''He could take a car that was unmanageable and make it do what he wanted,'' says one observer. Hes a great personality to the team. He really was. Thats just his makeup, the way he was. Have Harvey and RLL formed IndyCars next winning match-up? Weve got a lot of new stuff that were now gelling the team and figuring out how to work together and build on the processes. [9] Ongais finished 7th, having the best car early in the race. He also raced in Formula One, in 1977-78, in six Grands Prix, recording a best result of seventh. He makes an effort to keep everyone up to date from top to bottom as to where things are, what the current objectives are and whats the future look like. In September 1968, Thompson asked Ongais to help drive a trio of '69 Mustangs one with a 302, the other two NASCAR-style 427s on the Bonneville Salt Flats and in all set 295 national and international endurance records. Ongais also made a single start for AMI Racing driving the #43 Armstrong Mould Orbiter 80C-Cosworth DFX at the Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway, finishing 11th. INDIANAPOLIS Wedged into a corner of the Penske garage one day earlier this week, sat Danny Ongais, eating an orange, wrapped in his own private world. Super positive. I personally liked the On the Gas nickname more because it was a play on his last name, and more importantly, that was the way he drove. Ongais died Feb. 26, 2022 from congestive heart failure in Anaheim Hills, California. Shes like, Absolutely. . In the late 1950s, Ongais enlisted in the United States Army as a paratrooper stationed in Europe. Ongais finished in 3rd place at the Detroit News Grand Prix at Michigan International Speedway. No information regarding his funeral ceremony has come out yet from the side of his family. In 1978 he also made one final attempt at F1. Was Danny Ongais married? For Penske the hiring of Ongais was an aberration, a minor breach of his own immutable rules. In his heyday he was the Larry Mahan of racing. Before his championship run with Penske, Ward spent more than 12 years as an aerodynamicist and engineer with the Red Bull F1 team. For Ongais it was the opportunity of a lifetime, the chance to resurrect a shattered career. He might show up and talk to you for a while and then youd look around and hed be gone. We have an ethos here where we dont necessarily want to do things the way theyve always been done in the IndyCar world. That is still here fueling this and educating all the new people coming in to continue that mentality. The versatile Ongais made 11 Indianapolis 500 starts between 1977 and 1996, with four top-10 finishes. Gundlach, who recently was announced as a finalist for Indys Best and Brightest, previously worked cars that won two championships with Scott Dixon at Ganassi. Danny Ongais, the Hawaiian driver admired for his speed and bravery in an #Indy500 career spanning three decades, died Feb. 26 in Anaheim Hills, California at 79. I won the race. He dominated six races in USAC-sanctioned single-seater racing and finished eighth in the title. I think its a more family friendly way to go racing. Still, those five winsthree on the large superspeedways at Ontario, Texas, and Michigan, one at the short Milwaukee Mile oval, and one road race at Mosportdemonstrated Ongais' versatility as a driver. Longtime IndyCar driver Danny Ongais, who earned 11 starts in the Indianapolis 500, sustained congestive heart complications and died, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced. He Its collegiate students wanting to grow a career. He made a lot of noise in a very quiet way. WebDanny N Patsy Ongais is on Facebook. [2], Throughout the decade, and indeed throughout the remainder of his driving career, Ongais and Field continued driving sports cars successfully, mainly in IMSA Camel GT competition. ''In Hawaii,'' he huffed, ''I`d get at least $250.''. Ongais was the only native Hawaiian to compete in the Indianapolis 500. Autoweek participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Racing teams typically face double-digit turnover after the season. There have been other athletes who have taken a vow of silence, most notably baseball`s Steve Carlton. He first raced at the Arizona Republic/Jimmy Bryan 150 at Phoenix International Raceway where he qualified 4th and led for several laps only to drop out after 128 laps due to engine problems. I messaged her on Instagram, Hey, I think youre super cool, youre really killing it, and if you ever want to work in IndyCar, let me know, Gundlach told NBC Sports. Ongais was a man of few words but drove a race car with the right foot of an elephant on the accelerator. It is his and his alone. ''What happened?'' As good as he was on two wheels and all indications are that he was very good he was equally as good or better on four wheels and quickly won the Island Championships and Outstanding Driver of the Year awards. When you want to build a high-powered racing team, software is really, really important, Ward said. Ongais ability to drive these cars near their performance limits unfortunately resulted in a couple of spectacular crashes in Indy. He was knocked unconscious by the heavy impact. Its been a time of tremendous growth for the team, and most of that growth has come since the end of last season, Ward told NBC Sports as many of the new team members scurried past him with fresh parts and data during a break from preseason testing at The Thermal Club in Southern California last month. The starting blast damaged the electronics, and the Funny Car final used a flag start, and Ongais defeated Prudhomme for the win. The recruitment pitch to join the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team started with the 21st century social media version of a corporate headhunters cold call. Its a big focus to get the McLaren brand out in the world and do good content, which I think were probably the leading team in that sense now. Nielsen was hard-core Ongais all the way, peppering me with facts and stats to prove his case, so, naturally, I reached out to ask for his parting thoughts on Ongais. He would get an award, step up to the microphone and just say, Thank you and then sit down. (The fact that we share the same birthday albeit 16 years apart has nothing to do with it.). The Cosworth was hugely powerful, Ongais regularly appearing to dance the car on the rim of disaster on his way to eight pole positions, and when it hung together he tended to win: he racked up five triumphs that year. The car went to Al Unser Sr who went on to win a record-tying 4th Indianapolis 500. At times, Ongais drove both the trademark orange Vels Mustang Funny Car and Flying Doorstop Top Fueler at the same event; in the dragster, he set the national speed record at 243.24 mph at the 1972 Supernationals at Ontario Motor Speedway in what was the sports first 240-plus-mph national record. The Flying Hawaiin led a very secretive life outside the racing world its known that Ongais had a wife but it is said h had a son who is unidentified for now. BREAKING! In fact, even his closest associates have little insight into his own life, as he doesnt talk about his family or his youth in Hawaii. Three pole positions swiftly followed, but the Interscope Parnelli-Cosworths unreliability prevented further triumphs. Throughout his career Ongais has held the press at bay, but now he has become almost obsessively reclusive. Arguably Ongais best chance to win the Indy 500 came in his mid-40s in 1987, when Interscope partnered with Team Penske to run a Penske-Chevrolet at the Memorial Day Weekend classic. His first Indy-car race came at Ontario, Calif., late in 1976. We may earn money from the links on this page. The time he hit the wall in the third turn. The Arrow McLaren organizational hierarchy was restructured with last years departure of Taylor Kiel (who left to become team manager for Ganassi). Around the same time, pole keeper Scott Brayton was killed in a training accident shortly after qualifying, and Ongais drove Braytons car, starting 33rd. But then the wild mustangs he was driving gave way to the thoroughbreds, the ground-effects cars. He suffered a lot of serious crashes. In the 1970s he moved to competing in sports cars and Indy cars, winning races in both types, including the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1979 and several Indy car races in 1977 and 1978. His first Indy car race was the 1976 California 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway, where he finished 28th after a crash. Danny Ongais, the Hawaiian driver admired by fans and competitors for his speed and bravery in an Indianapolis 500 career spanning three decades, died Feb. 26 of congestive heart complications in Anaheim Hills, California. He was a racer. 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His death was announced by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway two days later. In the same way the rodeo champion could break anything on four legs, Ongais could tame anything on four wheels. A fearless figure on the racing circuit, Ongais was nicknamed "On-Gas" and "The Flyin' Hawaiian."[1]. Ongais final attempt at Indianapolis came in 1998, when he failed to qualify in a Team Pelfrey car. In 1982, he ran on only one Indy car race, the Indianapolis 500 (which was still sanctioned by USAC). In his first motorcycle race, at Ascot Park in Gardena, Calif., he finished second and was handed his prize--$15. backstretch. (Its) retaining the people youve got, he said. There are no visitors to Danny Ongais` world. Thompson and Ongais also teamed up to set nearly 300 national and international speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Mach 1 Mustang during the 1960s. I, like many, always enjoyed watching the Top Fuel and Funny Cars when I was not racing my own car. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I dont think theres a better IndyCar team to work for right now.. The rest of the year he raced only sports cars.[2]. Pole sitter Scott Brayton suffered fatal injuries in a post-qualifying practice crash, and team owner John Menard hired Ongais as the replacement driver. Weve done a bit of that. WebChapman did state that well into their relationship he learned Ongais was married and had a son. The success of Ongais and Field with the Interscope team also extended to sports car racing, with Field also driving. Scott said Arrow McLaren has lost only three team members since last years Sept. 11 finale at Laguna Seca, an unheard-of number that she attributes to working hard on trying to give back to employees with extra cash and time off. He made a late pass going into turn 3. But he continued to build a wall of silence around himself. In this week's Dragster Insider, friends and fellow racers remember the guy nicknamed On the Gas.. I think thatll grow into a bigger, better version of a big team than there is. The time zone changes arent quite so big. Faster than he could whip a motorcycle through a turn, Ongais became a drag racer and an instant winner. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway detailed his death two days after the fact. Ongais started, but his drive line broke immediately. Ongais had virtually lived with the Thompson family, and Campbell considered him a brother. On the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000, he was ranked 39th. ''He ran her off the speedway. He was direct. He qualified well over the season, earning three poles, and he finished 12th in the standings. But we are trying hard to collect all the information about him and will update you soon. Thats exciting. I think we want people who want to be with the team, so its not so much about trying to headhunt people, he said. and he has been married to his wife Ongais moved into circuit racing in the 1970s, working his way up the ranks in American racing through SCCA road racing with the help of Ted Field. For the 1986 season Ongais only ran the 1986 Indianapolis 500 for Interscope Racing. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper stationed in Europe. Editor at Ghanafuo.com David Kofi Tei, is a passionate Public Relations Lead/Journalist who mostly specializes in providing a high level of research, reporting, interviewing and broadcasting skills. Ongais became the Hawaiian motorcycle champion in 1960 and was in the top three positions in the expert class from 1960 to 1962.[2]. Since the outset of the Russian Troop’s invasion of Ukraine, Valery has run a blog in which he details how Kherson lives and volunteered. Al Unser was named as Ongais replacement and drove to his fourth Indy 500 victory in a backup car that previously had been used as a show car earlier in May at a hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania. Staring through him as if he had not heard, Ongais made no reply. Since arriving in the fall of 2019 at the former Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, she said she has watched Arrow McLaren grow while maintaining its gritty origins. Danny Ongais, the Hawaiian driver admired by fans and competitors for his speed and bravery in an Indianapolis 500 career spanning three decades, died Feb. 26 of congestive heart complications in Anaheim Hills, California. Thats the difference. In 1985, he also survived a spectacular barrel roll at Michigan International Speedway after hitting the back of the slower car of Phil Krueger on the backstretch. How much does an F1 car weigh in 2023 and what's included in the limit? Its like nothing Ive ever seen before.. A good guy to have a conversation with. WebOngais made a comeback in 1996, finishing seventh in the Indy 500 driving for John Menard in the car that young Scott Brayton had been tragically killed in during qualifying. After losing Saturdays AA/Dragster class final to Thompson, he beat Thompson in the final of the eliminator on Sunday, 8.39 to 8.53, to claim the big prize, then a few months later, he won the Hot Rod Magazine Championships at Riverside Raceway. The IndyCar team since has been integrated with McLaren Racings F1 operations, which naturally led to some growing pains. He also recorded the fastest lap of the race, 192.678 mph, as a rookie in 1977. Ongais ended the season in 15th place in points. pic.twitter.com/wWOurQyhjT, nascarman (@nascarman_rr) April 4, 2022. Fathers name is Not Available. Wife: The blogger is not married. His total assets include stocks, houses, and luxury things like personal luxury boats and planes. While deployed in Europe in the early 1960s, he also got his first taste of sports-car racing that would become one of his many fortes later in his career. [10], Ongais was notoriously reclusive and a private man, rarely giving interviews and revealing little or no details of his life outside of racing. And well-deserved. Ongais calmly drove it around to the pits where the fire was extinguished. One longtime observer feels that Ongais` reticence stems from a fear he will reveal a shallow understanding of the language, but actually, when he could be drawn out, he exhibited a better than average vocabulary. Ongais made his CART debut during the 1979 season driving the #25 Panasonic/Interscope Racing Parnelli 6C-Cosworth DFX. Great guy. WebFilling the No. Hardwick slams flawed IMSA BoP, announces WEC plans, Honda reveals Civic Type R pace car for IndyCar events, Honda's new Civic Type R pace car (Though Indianapolis Motor Speedway had listed Ongais as the only Indy 500 driver from Hawaii, Bill Alsup, the 11th-place finisher in the 1981 race also was born in Honolulu, but his racing career primarily was built in the continental U.S.). Danny completed 10th place in his last race in 1996. Honestly, there was already so much talent in the group, and I feel like so much more has been added on which is just going to help us to really get us where we want to be.. Danny Ongais has No ones ever going to say weve got everything figured out. No matter how fast Ongais drove his race car, he always wanted to go even faster. WebMotor sports and racing legend Danny Ongais passed away on February 26, 2022 at 3:15pm of congestive heart failure at his home in Anaheim Hills, CA, that he shared with Sometimes its easy to forget that, but I think were doing a good job here. Ongais and Field teamed up with success in Formula 5000 and the Indy car Series in the late 1970s. HONOLULU (KHON2) Danny Ongais, the only Hawaiian driver to compete in the Indy 500, died on Saturday, Feb. 26, in California at the age of 79. After setting fastest lap of the race at the Indy 500 despite his rookie status, he went on to clinch victory at Michigan. Even his closest friends know little of As I mentioned previously, Prudhomme had some amazing things to say about Ongais, expressing a reverence that Ive seldom heard the Snake hold for other drivers. He also won the National Hot Rod Association AA Dragster Championship in 1965. WebDanny Ongais, the Hawaiian driver admired by fans and competitors for his speed and bravery in an Indianapolis 500 career spanning three decades, died Feb. 26 of Danny took home the American Hot Rod Association AA Gas Dragster Championship in 1963 and 1964. For the next seven races, Ongais replaced an injured Johnny Rutherford at Patrick Racing, who had been driving the #40 Sea Ray Boats Wildcat Mk 9-Cosworth DFX. Any amount of anonymity that Ongais had changed on a worldwide basis after he reunited with Thompson in late 1968. Born in 1942 in the wake of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Ongais grew up in Kahului on the island of Maui, and he raced BSA motorcycles as a teenager before he was introduced to the dragstrip by some friends. F4 Thailand Boys Over Flowers Season 1 Episode 13 Release Date and Time, Countdown, When Is It Coming Out. Parents: The undercover bloggers Parents are not Rest in peace, Danny Ongais.. After a 9-year hiatus from racing, Ongais was asked by John Menard to fill in for Scott Brayton who was killed during Friday Practice for the 1996 Indianapolis 500. 2021 IndyCar title is just the start for Ganassi's newest star, Why Grosjean's oval commitment shows he's serious about IndyCar, Why Grosjean's title bid is serious It doesnt happen overnight. He competed professionally in motorcycle, sports car, CART, IndyCar, Formula One, and drag racing. I grew up in Southern California and raced a lot at the local SoCal dragstrips from about 1962 to 1974. The tragic circumstances of an accident also led to Ongais final start at Indianapolis, in 1996. WebI was with the first crew to reach Danny Ongais (1981) when he had his horrifying wreck. He was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (196263), 24 Hours of Daytona (196671/ 1973/ 1975present), This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 02:44. If you know some information, please comment below. Hes happy to be here; were happy to have him.. Weve expanded our operations pretty significantly, she said. He was 79. Ongais dominated in SCCA competition in 1974, catching the eye of young media mogul Ted Field, who had recently founded the Interscope Records label. The group of people that are in charge (of) who joins the team, I think they know exactly what we need, and I trust theyre going to make the right decisions. The car broke in two and his legs were hanging out. Getting out of the car, Ongais pushed it the length of the quarter-mile dragstrip to claim the championship. Ongais made 11 Indy 500 starts between 1977 and 1996 and placed in the top 10 a total of four times. One long-running debate we had was: Who was Hawaiis greatest drag racer?, I was/am still solidly in the Roland Leong camp. The versatile Ongais made 11 Indianapolis 500 starts between 1977 and 1996, with four top-10 finishes. That victory came one year after Thompson tried to enter Ongais into the 1968 Indianapolis 500, but Ongais was denied because he had almost no experience in open-wheel race cars. How Marcus Ericsson finally unlocked his potential in IndyCar, Remembering Dan Wheldon and his last and most amazing win, Dan Wheldon and his amazing last win The sad news of the death of the veteran racing driver was announced by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway I do think he was one of the best drivers out there. I mean, listen I've done well in drag racing, and I've driven Top Fuel and Funny Car, but so had Danny, but he even went two or three steps further, driving an Indy car and hauling ass and in IMSA cars. At the 1964 Winternationals, his dragster defeated a field that included heavyweights like Thompson, the Peters & Frank Freight Train, and Earl Poage. He decided to remain private regarding her life and relationship. So when this all happened, I was really I never want to say anyone is better than me, but I'll tell you, if anybody was better than me, it was him. Gundlach forwarded Hackenbergs contact information to an Arrow McLaren hiring manager, and the match turned out perfect. His racing career was paused as he served a three-year stint in the U.S. Army, where he became an elite Airborne paratrooper. And Penske said he would have a car ready for him. He had refused all requests for interviews this week, and Penske himself could not get his driver to relent. They did score a memorable AHRA win at Lions Dragstrip on the fateful March 8 day that Don Garlits exploded the transmission in Swamp Rat 13, severing half of his right foot. He really wanted to be here. Starting last, Ongais finished 7th in what was his final 500. Then weve got some really experienced guys from other IndyCar teams as well.. [7] He missed the rest of the CART year to recover in rehabilitation. The cars were fragile on the half shafts, and he liked to drive them hard sometimes. All the world was a colorful Circus when Bob Gerdes painted race cars, Top Fuel dynasties: Torrence, Schumacher, Dixon, Garlits, Amato, Shirley, Beck, Some top-shelf books that every drag racing history fan should check out, Yeah, but what if? Penske looks for three things when hiring a driver, and the ability to go fast is the last of the three. A semi-serious look at the points battles heading to Pomona, T.V. Weve really tried to stretch ourselves to find the best and the brightest no matter where they live, Scott said. Ongais is the main Hawaiian to compete in Hustlings Greatest Show. Right from the get-go for me, that was a high-priority item to try and spruce ourselves up. Why Kyle Kirkwood is America's new IndyCar ace-in-waiting, Why Kirkwood is USA's ace-in-waiting There are some inherent advantages for a team in IndyCar, whose 17-race schedule is more manageable than NASCAR (36 races in 37 weeks) and Formula One (which has expanded to 24 races around the globe). Ongais was known to be a hermit and quiet man who did not give many meetings and uncovered the least about his life outside of bullying. Service in the U.S. Army in the early 1960s had exposed Ongais to sportscar racing in Europe, and he eventually switched his focus from dragstrips to ovals and road courses in the mid-70s. Ongais had some of the biggest, hardest crashes in Indianapolis 500 history. In addition to Grace Hackenberg, Gundlach also played a role in the teams acquisition of systems engineer Lizzie Todd, who came from previous roles at Andretti and Penske. The mothers name is Not Available. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Were not shy to hire a visa candidate who might require extra effort to obtain work permits. He was that talented. All we can do is look across what corporations and companies are doing when people tell us we could do better in one space or another, she said. Ranking the top 10 IndyCar drivers of 2021. The sad news of the death of the veteran racing driver was announced by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway two days later after his death. The Flyin`. The team overhauled its total rewards package (which includes benefits and incentivized bonus plans) to stay competitive with other IndyCar teams as well as the other high-tech and Fortune 500 companies in the Indianapolis, Indiana, region (home to roughly 2 million) where Arrow McLaren is based. Our car experts choose every product we feature. There probably has never been a driver who hit the wall harder more often and was able to survive than Danny Ongais (who died earlier this year). 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