You can see water on the pavement under the car. This is the race that Chevy wanted to win in the worst way.
Hayden was paid by Chevy to race that year.
He told me he raced on weekends and all week he was at Lions during the week to test the red car. He wrote down weather conditions, heat, humidity, tire pressures, metering rods, jets, etc. He kept all his notes in this little notebook.
When he arrived at Indy the weather was changing. After several rounds leading up to the last race he told me clouds came in, temps dropped, humidity went up. Before the last race, he took out his notebook, flipped through the pages, figured out what he needed to change, went to work.
He said he was confident of his notes, lights came down, they were side by side until he hit 3rd and pulled away and the same in 4th.
Then the salute!
I think the salute has been captured in photos