Indy 500 2012: J.R. Hildebrand’s Mental Toughness Will Lead to Redemption

 J.R. Hildebrand is different. The 24-year-old race car driver should’ve gone down in history as the 2011 Indy 500 winner, but he choked. In most competitors, such an infamous collapse would trigger an unbearable amount of distress. But Hildebrand isn’t most competitors, and that’s why he’ll come back with a vengeance at Indianapolis. Phillip B. Wilson of the Indianapolis Star reported that Hildebrand didn’t go into a depression like so other many athletes after a similar level of letdown. Instead, he manned up as the man nicknamed Captain America said: After seeing guys screw up that kind of situation in sports and kind of handle that situation badly, I felt like I had no option but to stand up and be a m...

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