Rear View: Little Al's best day - 1992 Indy 500

Maybe attempt number 25 will be successful. We'll have to wait until May 28 to find out if 1992's closest finish in Indy 500 history can be broken. Whether Al Unser Jr's 0.043-second win over Scott Goodyear stands or falls, Little A says their bond – formed while charging to the finish line – will remain.

"It's been a true blessing," said the two-time Indy winner. "Scott Goodyear, he's a very good man. He's one hell of a competitor. Because of our connection with the 500 in 1992, since then I've got to know him, we've gone out and stuff, and he's told me about his struggles and tribulations on how he actually got to the Indy 500. The things that he had to do as a kid and a young racecar driver coming up. Man, he worked his ass off to get there."

• Rear View: Goodyear's cruel '92 Indy 500 finish

In an odd continuation of the good fortune his father, four-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, experienced in 1987 when Mario Andretti dominated the race but broke in the latter stages of the 200-lap event, Little Al was the beneficiary of Michael Andretti's misfortune at the 1992 Indy event.

As one father coasted to a stop and handed the 1987 win to the other father, one son – on a path of destruction five years later – coasted to a halt, which allowed the other son to earn his first 500 victory. Andretti to Unser, Andretti to Unser Jr; it was a remarkably familiar result.

Shared in a recent interview with Little Al, the dramatic turn of events in 1992 with Andretti's mechanical woes, the frigid weather, countless crashes, and the amazing duel with Goodyear make for a joyful trip back to his best day in the sport.

Listen to the full interview in the podcast below.