Only the Texan wasn't on hand to make his first-ever trip to Long Beach's Victory Lane asciatic nerve that will require surgery forced him to watch the race on television at home.
"Nobody knows if it's a muscle with pressure on the sciatic nerve or if there's a problem with a disk, " Stricker said ot the discomfort he felt during his long day.
They began with dead frogs, whose sciatic nerves had been stimulated to make their legs twitch by no less a scientist than Luigi Galvani, the first to look into the matter, in 1771.