How Colton Herta Took a Page from the NFL to win GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis

NTT IndyCar Series GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis winner Colton Herta had a secret weapon that helped his win on Saturday: he used the video boards and TV monitors around the track to help him see the track and where he was going a bit better.

It was suggested to him that football players do it all the time in stadiums, looking up and seeing who is chasing them.

“That's where I got the idea from,” Herta chuckled. “I do it all the time. I think everybody does. If there's a screen on the back straight or the front straight that you can see. Obviously, I'm not looking in the middle of the corners or anywhere that it could catch me out, but yeah, there's a long straight. You don't have anything to do on it but look around.”

He then added, “Maybe I shouldn't tell you guys this, but I saw Simon poking out on one of the restarts on the TVs. I was watching the TVs because I couldn't see anything out of the mirrors. Every time he would poke out, I would go down a little bit more so he couldn't see anything going into one.

“I was giggling a little bit in my helmet looking. Every other TV he would poke out a little bit more, so I would go a little bit more. Funny. What's that?