People

By Guy D. Garcia

He has a reputation for enjoying life in the fast lane, but last week Danny Sullivan was driving there, as he survived a harrowing 360 degrees spinout to win the Indianapolis 500. "I've had spins before, and I've gotten away with some of them," he said a few days after smoking to victory 2.5 sec. ahead of Mario Andretti. A sometime magazine model and former New York City taxi driver, Sullivan, 35, popped up in Manhattan for a post-Indy lap in a cab. He complains that his go-go playboy image is blown out of proportion. "Everyone talks about the glamour life of racing," he says. "I play hard, but I work hard too." It's just that he does it all at around 200 m.p.h.