Not sure if many of you read Autosport magazine (UK weekly motorsport bible) but Robby appears in this week's Race of My Life feature. I've typed the full version out below for you to enjoy.

'There are probably other races you could make a case for as the race of my life - like my first Daytona 24 Hours with Roush when I finished fifth overall, won my class and doors really opened for me. But one race sticks in the memory: the race that got away, the 1999 Indianapolis 500.

At the time I was running in CART for Toyota, but the Indy 500 is the Indy 500 and, like I told all the CART owners, I had to do it. There was a clash with Gateway, so I ran that the day before but crashed out early.

There wasn't any real added value to doing both - in fact it disrupted preparations, including me missing Carb Day - but I had commitments to fulfill. Two years previously I 'd also run Indy and Charlotte in NASCAR, attempting to do 'Double Duty'. That was a slog, but double-stinitng doesn't really affect you too much as a driver.

Gateway was on the Saturday, so after my exit I headed straight across to Indy, where I had qualified on the second row, right behind poleman Arie Luyendyk. We were flying, in the lead group, so I just held position and ran near the front all the way. We were so fast, the top guys, that we had everyone up to fourth lapped.

The race swung on a caution, which came out on lap 169. I had just stopped five laps, so I told my partner (and team owner) John Menard that we needed to pit, but just for a splash and dash. The other guys all needed a full pit, so we would have been the first car on the road and we could have destroyed the field.

John disagreed though, and he's obviously the team owner. He said we'd make it, that there'd be another caution in the race. But this particular caution lasted just two laps, and there wasn't another incident. One more lad and we'd have won. If we'd been smart, we'd have won.

But we stayed out, amd as everyone else stopped and the order changed we gained a massive advantage. At one point I had a seven second lead, literally the entire straight - I could look in my mirrirs and there was no-one there.

But obviously, all the time we were out in the lead we also knew we were very tight on fuel, and we had to really rein it in. I was still out fronton the penultimate lap, but as we came off the final turn, with the white flag waiting, suddenly we were empty. It's probably the biggest win that was taken from us. And it was definitely taken - it was ours!

I managed to roll into the pits and we splashed and dashed, headed out and finished fourth. That's still my best Indy result but there's no satisfaction in it, just disappointment. It was our team - I was a young owner at just 31 - so it hurt even more. I'd call it the race of my life - it's the one i'll never forget.'