Admits he is the weak link right now source: irl.racing-live.com Eddie Cheever Jr. walked into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Media Center on Wednesday morning April 5, a couple of hours before he was scheduled to return to the track at the site of his greatest victory. "Good to see you back with your helmet," someone said in welcome. "I never put it away," said Cheever, the 1998 winner of the 500. "All I had to do was dust it off." He talked of his decision to join fellow 500 winner Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti in 'comeback' runs for the Month of May. "Our last three years as a company were difficult, as was everybody's who didn't have a Honda engine," Cheever said. "When the IndyCars went to one type of engine (Honda) this year and parity, there were too many positives not to return. "From a personal standpoint, my father died the last year I was racing, and my heart wasn't in it the last half of the season. That's not the way I wanted to leave IndyCar racing." Cheever said it hasn't been an easy return, but a welcome one nonetheless.
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