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Sato reflects on his Indy 500 success

Following the thrills and spills of Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Monday is traditionally the day when the new Indy 500 champion meets the press and fulfils a never-ending stream of media commitments.

This year, for the first time, this heavy burden fell to Takuma Sato - and he was revelling in every minute of it!

Part of the day's programme is a photo call which takes place on the start/finish line at IMS, right on the brickyard's iconic 'yard of bricks'.

Sato got to pose with the intimidating Borg-Warner Trophy. At five feet four inches (163cm) tall, the trophy is almost exactly the same height as Sato. And at 153 pounds (69 kg), it's actually a lot heavier than the Japanese driver's 130 pounds (59kg)!

Of all the pictures we saw from the session, this is the one that we liked the best. It's an unusual composition that manages to include almost every element of the greatest spectacle of motorsport in a single picture. It really is worth a thousand words.

Oh, and while you can't really put a price on it, Sunday's victory was worth $2,458,129 to Sato and the Andretti Autosport team. Cool!

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.