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pato
[ pah-toh; Spanish pah-taw ]
noun
- an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.
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McLaren’s Lando Norris, Verstappen’s title rival, also did not take part, handing his car to IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward, who trialled a new floor the team have brought for this race after months of development.
Repurposed cans of El Pato tomato sauce hold succulents on Aurora Anaya’s front porch.
His pass of Pato O’Ward two corners from the finish line gave Penske a record-extending 20th Indy 500 victory and made Newgarden the first back-to-back winner since Helio Castroneves did it for Penske in 2001-02.
Pato O’Ward, who will start in the middle of the third row for McLaren, had the fifth-fastest lap at 225.738 mph, but he came away from practice in a funk.
He’s believed to be chasing a pay raise that would put him in line with the extensions recently signed by Colton Herta and Pato O’Ward, drivers with lesser credentials than Newgarden.
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