Milk sends Castroneves to hospital after Indy 500 win

Just hours after winning the Indianapolis 500, Helio Castroneves was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains. Castroneves doubled over in pain following his third victory of the famed race and had to be taken by ambulance to the Wishard Memorial Hospital for treatment. A family spokesman said the racecar driver suffers from “severe lactose intolerance” and “should not have ingested dairy products of any kind.”

Tradition holds that the winner of the race sip from a bottle of milk following their victory. In his prior two victories Castroneves has only pretended to drink from the bottle, spitting the milk out before swallowing it. However Castroneves had supposedly been privately telling family and friends that he planned to take part in the tradition for real if he won the race. “ We warned him not to,” an unnamed family friend said. “I told him this would happen if he did. That boy has no tolerance for lactose.”

Castroneves is resting comfortably and is expected to be kept overnight for observation.