By A. Lind
Patrick County native Corey Lind was part of making history in the 2021 winning of the famed Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race on Sunday, May 30th. This race event is regarded as the “world’s Super Bowl of racing” and is coveted by every IndyCar driver and crewman as the “one” race to win.
Corey becomes the second from Patrick County to achieve this goal, after the Wood Brothers’ pit crew efforts took them to the Indy 500 winner’s circle in 1965.
Corey began his racing career working on Late Model and Open-wheel Modified stock cars while attending PHCC and ODU’s Motorsports Program.
After college, he focused on road course racing while at VIR (Virginia International Raceway) running a chassis dyno and maintaining several types of road race cars for amateur drivers throughout the East Coast region.
The last four years of Corey’s career has been dedicated to IndyCar racing across the country on oval, street, and road courses. He is currently working with Meyer Shank Racing (MSR), a team based in Pataskala, Ohio.
For 2021, MSR decided to field a second car for a limited six-race schedule which included the Indy 500 with seasoned veteran driver Helio Castroneves at the wheel. This was Castroneves’ first race with the young team, and to experience a WIN with the team was as good as racing gets for each team member. Castroneves won his first Indy 500 in 2001 and his fourth in 2021 thus joining elite four-time winners Al Unser, Rick Mears, and A.J. Foyt. Castroneves’ next challenge with the MSR team comes August 8 when the IndyCar series goes to Nashville for its inaugural street course race.
Corey works as a front-end and cockpit mechanic while serving as front tire carrier and alternate tire changer. He currently lives in California with his wife Tasher. He is the son of Jeff and Annetta Lind of Stuart.
