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Over his dozen years at ABC he called two Indy 500s, broadcast Major League Baseball, traveled the world reporting for “Wide World of Sports,” interviewed President Ronald Reagan at Daytona, presided over the trophy presentation after Super Bowl XIX and covered the first of 14 Olympics.

Eventually, after she sows up his cut hand — she was a nurse before she worked a bar, and aren’t they kind of the same thing? — he will explain his scars, like Indy to Marion at the end of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

But that’s not the perk it would seem since Kirkwood is the only driver to win an IndyCar race from the pole since the 2019 Indy 500.

His portrayal of the world's luckiest archaeologist even got the seal of approval from original Indy Harrison Ford.

“It’s an iconic race,” said Penske, who also owns the IndyCar series and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indy 500.