In November, the broadcasting legend David Letterman and I met at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Indiana, where Letterman grew up, to shoot a GQ Video Cover Story. It was Letterman’s idea to go to Indianapolis. He left town in the ‘70s to seek his fortune in Hollywood (short version: it worked out), but he has fond memories of Indianapolis and particularly of the IMS. He described to me going as a kid with his uncle and hearing the sound vibrate up from the track in a way that he could feel throughout his entire body. In fact, Letterman’s first appearance on national television was interviewing Mario Andretti after the driver crashed out of the Indianapolis 500 in 1971; now, more than five decades later, he’s a part-owner of a racing team here, Rahal Letterman Lanigan.
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