Motor racing: Sato becomes 1st Japanese to win Indy 500

Takuma Sato scored a landmark win for Japanese motor racing Sunday, becoming the first driver from his country to win the Indianapolis 500.The 40-year-old Sato, who made the jump from Formula One to IndyCar in 2010, edged the race's three-time champion Helio Castroneves for the victory after starting fourth from the grid. Rookie Ed Jones was third.The previous best at the Indy 500 by a Japanese driver was Toranosuke Takagi's fifth place in 2003. Sato had never fared better than 13th in 2013 and 2015 in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing," and his only other IndyCar win came in 2013, when he …READ FULL ARTICLE