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Young drivers give IndyCar solid foundation

Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti have all the ingredients the IndyCar Series has been craving. They have famous family names, have reached Victory Lane and seem to enjoy playing up their growing rivalry.The bold, budding stars represent a whole new kind of IndyCar driver -- the guys and gals who could finally become this series' cornerstone fixtures for a generation to come."This is a pretty young group," Rahal said. "There are a lot of young people here who you could see at this track for the next 20 years. I think that's a great thing and we hope that's the case."It's not the first time IndyCar has pinned its future hopes on a bunch of twentysomethings.Those young fresh faces in the 1960s carried names such as Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt and Al and Bobby Unser. They emerged as the foundation for IndyCar's glory days and when they left in the late '80s or early t mid '90s there weren't enough young up-and-comers to replace them.Drivers such as Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, who develop...

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