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IRL Racer, Dancing With The Stars Champ Ditches Wife for Dance Partner

Here's just one of the reasons why we'd never make it as a professional racer: Helio Castroneves wins back-to-back Indy 500's and stays with his hottish young wife fiance. Helio Castroneves wins Dancing With The Stars and leaves young wife fiance for even younger 19-year-old dance instructor. This according to the fine folks at With Leather. There's just something unbalanced about that. It would somehow be better if he left his wife fiance for his pit crew chief. More »

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Helio Castroneves Shimmies FTW On Dancing With The Stars, Shows Off New-Look IRL Uniform?


We're fairly certain the gold lamé race track suit-inspired uni Helio Castroneves was wearing in his little freestyle dance the night before last wasn't made of Proban or Nomex. And thank goodness — if it was, we feel we might have had to endure an entire IRL season of the Brazilian donning the suit for every race in honor of last night's big win over the forces of evil Spice Girl Melanie Brown to take home his other championship — the one for Dancing with the Stars. In case you missed Helio's little racing-inspired ballroom romping — and we don't blame you if you did — we've included the clip from the night before last. We're going to go and gouge our eyes out now. [via Freep]

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Helio Castroneves Can Crash -- And Dance!


Wishes might not do dishes, but here on Jalopnik sometimes wishes can come true. Like this e-mail we received earlier from a longtime reader:
"You might want to look for the YouTube clip of Helio Castroneves on Dancing with the Stars. The man can mambo! He did this one move where he was on his knees and then bent back so that he was lying on the floor."
While that was tonight's episode our dear reader was talking about, the above clip's from the last week's episode — so no mambo, but yes to some serious rump-shaking by Helio's blond bombshell of a partner, Julianne Hough. Hope that satisfies the wishful need — the need for speed of feet.

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Five Questions For Today's Detroit Grand Prix IndyCar Race

We're up and runnin' today from the Corvette chalet here in the middle of the Detroit River to finish off our Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix coverage with some hot IndyCar racing action. So whether you're coming to the race today, watching it on ABC at 3:30 or reading our live-blog here (hint-hint) here's five questions we've got for the race today that maybe you can help us to answer: More »

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Helio's Still The Man, Snags The Big Pole For Detroit Grand Prix IndyCar Race

Yup, Helio's still the man — mostly because now he's sitting atop the pole for tomorrow's IndyCar race with a speed of 103.401 mph for Team Penske. That's almost as hot as the two lovely ladies he had with him last year at Indy. [Detroit News]