Canadian driver James Hinchcliffe set for clean slate this IndyCar season
James Hinchcliffe has hung up his dancing shoes and put his racing helmet back on. It’s a much freer feeling than one year ago.
The Oakville, Ont., driver says the upcoming IndyCar season — which begins Sunday with the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg — feels like a clean slate.
Hinchcliffe, who competed on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” last fall, was riddled with questions entering last year after a near-death experience at the 2015 Indianapolis 500 when his left thigh was pierced by the car’s right front rocker following a crash in practice.
“I think going into the start of last season, there was so much talk about “the comeback” and all the rest of it and it carried through all the way into the month of May just being that’s where the accident happened, so the first four, five races of the year it was heavy running commentary on it,” Hinchcliffe said in a phone interview.