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Scarallo Used to be
That Kid in the Grandstands

INDIANAPOLIS, May 24 - Indy Pro Series driver Joey Scarallo knows all about
that little guy (or girl) wearing a racing T-shirt and reverently inhaling all
the sights and sounds of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend.

Seventeen years ago he was that kid in the grandstands.

After tomorrow's Freedom 100 he'll have gone from that kid anxiously waiting
to see his favorite driver in person to one of the men and women who have
actually competed at the Brickyard.

Scarallo drives one of two Indy Pro Series cars fielded by RLR/Andersen
Racing. His red and yellow car is sponsored by GroupAWheels.com and carries the
No. 15. He is part of the only contingent from the New York metropolitan area
racing here this weekend. Scarallo was born in Adelaide, Australia but he was
raised on Long Island and calls Smithtown, N.Y. home. His teammate, Andrew
Prendeville in the Best Friends Animal Society No. 5, lives in Morristown, N.J.,
while Andersen Racing is based in Fairfield, N.J.

Although they're not from the Midwest, the team members have the hearts of
Hoosiers. They know the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is unlike any other
racetrack in the world, or as one driver once put it so well, "a sanctuary of speed."

Scarallo has known that since he was a child.

"I have tapes of the Indy 500 dating back from the early eighties. I used to
come home from school and just watch those tapes, and I just got to be a big
Emerson Fittipaldi fan," he said.

"I was so happy when Emmo won the 500 in 1989," continued Scarallo, who is
returning to open-wheel racing after several years successfully competing in the
Trans-Am series.

"Then in 1990 I got to go to the Indy 500 for the first time," he elaborated.
"I was 10. My father's company was the biggest distributor of Fittipaldi
wheels, so we went as a guest of Roger Penske," he recalled. "We sat on the
frontstretch going into Turn 1. Emmo sat on the pole, but he blistered his tires
and Arie Luyendyk ended up winning the race.

"Right around then I decided that racing is what I wanted to do with my
life," he said.

Later that year Scarallo even got to meet Fittipaldi. "He was at Moroso
[Motorsports Park in Jupiter, Fla.] giving people hot laps in a pace car,"
Scarallo remembered. "We all went to lunch, and I got to sit beside Emmo. It was
cool."

When Scarallo was 13 his life was turned upside down when he was diagnosed
with a brain tumor. While he was bedridden and waiting for surgery, another one
of his favorite drivers, NASCAR star Darrell Waltrip, called him to wish him
good luck.

The call from Waltrip meant a great deal to the whole family, but especially
to Scarallo. He had a full recovery, and he still talks to Waltrip on the
phone occasionally to this day.

They were even involved in the same event once, when Trans-Am appeared with
NASCAR at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., in 2003. Scarallo was driving,
while Waltrip was a TV commentator that weekend.

Scarallo is one of 11 different drivers in Andersen Racing's stable. The team
competes in three different series (Hankook Tires F2000 Championship, Star
Mazda presented by Goodyear and the Indy Pro Series) in order to provide
up-and-coming drivers the best training they can receive. Fans can keep up with
Scarallo and all his teammates through the team's Web site at
andersenracingteam.com.