Ryan Hunter-Reay knows exactly where he’s going to display his Baby Borg Trophy.

“We put a new cupboard in my office at home, so it will have its own shelf,” Hunter-Reay told RACER after receiving the award Wednesday night. “We’re all ready to bring it home.”

His team owner, Michael Andretti, quickly interrupted. “He’s going to put it right next to all those pictures he has of himself,” he joked.

Hunter-Reay and Andretti received their smaller, take-home versions of the Borg-Warner Trophy during a ceremony Wednesday night at the Automotive News World Congress Dinner at the Detroit Renaissance Center.

Hunter-Reay’s 18-inch tall miniature of the 5-foot tall, 110-pound Borg-Warner Trophy – which has a permanent home at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – features a sterling silver likeness of Hunter-Reay’s face similar to the one unveiled on the larger trophy during a ceremony in December at the Speedway.

“It still gets the emotions going,” Hunter-Reay (LEFT, with James Verrier, CEO of BorgWarner Inc.) said of the Indy accolades. “It’s still relatively new for me, so I’m still enjoying it. When you finally achieve it, it takes some time to set in, so every bit of it I’m still soaking in. But when we get back to Indy in May, we’re turning the page.”

Andretti’s team won the 500 for the third time in 10 years when Hunter-Reay crossed the finish line 0.0600 seconds ahead of Helio Castroneves in the 98th running of the Indy 500 on May 25.

Andretti said his owner’s Baby Borg will go alongside the other two in a display at the team’s shop in Indianapolis.

It was Hunter-Reay’s first 500 win in seven tries; he also was the first American to win the race since Sam Hornish Jr. won it in 2006. Andretti, who came close in several of his 16 Indy 500s as a driver, including a runner-up finish to Rick Mears in 1991, said three Baby Borgs are a remarkable team accomplishment.

“I really am proud of this,” said Andretti, who also owned winning entries driven by Dan Wheldon in 2005 and Dario Franchitti in 2007. “I couldn’t do it as a driver, but this helps to make up for it. Winning it 30 percent of the time in the last 10 races is a pretty good pace. Hopefully we can continue for years to come.”

The idea for the Baby Borg trophy began in 1988 at the request of Mears after the third of his four Indy wins in 1988. Hunter-Reay’s Baby Borg was the 27th awarded to a winning driver.

“I’ll have to thank Rick for this,” Hunter-Reay said with a laugh.