Congratulations to 2018 INDY 500 winners Will Power and especially Crew Chief Jonsson, who 25 years ago came to a strange land, the USA!Considering all of the wins and championships Jonsson’s amassed at Team Penske, it’s refreshing to learn how much the latest Indy 500 win means to someone who left home long ago to start a new life in a different land.“The reason I came to America — and it’s the best country in the world, there’s no doubt about that — is this country gives opportunity to anybody, and that’s what I love about this country,” he said with a smile. “Everybody starts on equal ground, and it doesn’t matter who you are when you start out. Hard work and the harder you try, the further you can make it, and I think again, by some luck, and obviously some fortune in some way ended up at the right place with Team Penske.“That thought will never go away that you came to a new country for a reason. For me, the reason was racing, and to come over here and — at the time when I showed up over here, it was certainly to make it to Penske was one of my goals, although I started with Bettenhausen, and I don’t want to take anything away from that. Tony was a great friend and just wound up here doing this, and now I’ve [won Indy] with three different drivers. Standing in Victory Lane with RP, it means a lot.”

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