Each year the Long Beach Champ Car GP has a celebrity support race, this year in Toyota saloons. Celebrities included George Lucas, of Star Wars fame, who was involved in a mighty accident, and Martina Navratilova, who finished second, IIRC. There was also a guy called Berra (?) -- world champion extreme cyclist, who was classified as a "pro" and started 30 seconds behind the others but finished amongst the leaders. Most of the others were american TV stars or sports writers.
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