It’s been over a decade since Keanu Reeves obtained behind the wheel of a race automobile in an expert collection, however the 60-year-old Lebanese-Canadian driver is popping out of retirement to run a one-off occasion to shut the Toyota GR Cup season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. You might recall he gained his class on the 2009 Lengthy Seashore Grand Prix Professional/Superstar Race in one of many many identically ready Scions tC. Like that occasion, the GR Cup is a spec collection constructed across the gentle and agile Toyota GR86 sports activities automobile.
Reeves isn’t any stranger to motorsports, as he’s usually seen in Method 1 and MotoGP paddocks all over the world. He’s a widely known and avid bike collector, with an enormous assortment. He additionally began his personal California-based bike firm, Arch, in 2011 with enterprise accomplice Gard Hollinger.
A bit of private anecdote about Keanu, I stayed in the identical resort as him in the course of the 2013 operating of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and acknowledged him because the Professional/Celeb race victor just some years prior (a race I additionally attended.) We chatted a bit about his run at Lengthy Seashore and the way he’d lucked into that victory. We additionally chatted about motorbikes. Anyway, he was a very nice man and I want him properly on monitor this weekend.
This weekend’s GR Cup occasion guarantees over 30 opponents on this weekend’s double-header occasion at Indy. Mr. Reeves will probably be operating the quantity 92 automobile, in case you wish to observe together with the sexagenarian’s on-track exploits. It’s good to see some older fellas getting again into racing after a few years away. I hope he sticks with it and finds some success in motor racing. Perhaps he’s past his prime, however maybe he may parlay this right into a late-in-life profession and even spin it into his personal racing staff.
