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Castroneves ‘IndyCar-aoke’ challenge backfires when Brabham, Chilton nail it

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Max Chilton (rear) and Matthew Brabham took Helio Castroneves up on his ‘IndyCar-aoke challenge’ Tuesday.

Verizon IndyCar Series driver Helio Castroneves shocked the world when he and partner Julianne Hough won Dancing With The Stars in 2007 (see video below – we never get tired of watching it).

The three-time Indianapolis 500 winner decided to take things to the next level during Tuesday’s IndyCar Media Day across the country when he came up with “IndyCar-aoke” – as in karaoke.

In somewhat of a takeoff on late night TV show host James Corden’s amazingly popular “Carpool Karaoke” series, Castroneves issued a IndyCar-aoke challenge to other drivers in Sunday’s 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 to put their singing uh, err, talent to the test.

Being naive Indy 500 rookies who maybe didn’t know any better, Matthew Brabham and Max Chilton took the challenge.

But you know what? This time, youth ruled and Helio drooled.

While Helio did his best (it would have helped if he knew all the lyrics) with The Pointer Sisters “I’m So Excited,” Brabham and Chilton absolutely killed it with their version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” – a potential ode to their hopes in Sunday’s race.

As for Helio, a bit of advice: Good try, but don’t give up your day job anytime soon. That, or you may want to play to your REAL musical strength: dancing!

And, Helio, if you want to see how it’s really done – and sung – check out the following video and then take a walk down memory lane of your win in DWTS:

https://youtu.be/8iwBM_YB1sE

https://youtu.be/kTxxpG1kHu4

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