If the jacks should fail on Davey Hamilton's car during a pit stop in the zMAX 500 on Saturday night, the team won't have to worry.
Fife is big enough to lift one end of the car for a change of tires.
It was Larry Nash, team manager for Sam Schmidt Motorsports team. Fife, a former schoolteacher, is starting a second career at age 30. Always visiting the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May as a youngster, he long has dreamed of becoming a part of the open-wheel racing scene. Technology fascinates me, what the materials are made of and all the precise work that goes into putting them together, and that kind of thing. But Fife took a circuitous route to the Indy Racing Northern Light Series and a spot on the Schmidt crew.