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Indy 500: Results| Drivers| Is the NASCAR| History
The Indianapolis 500, also formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race,[1][2] or simply the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States. Race, which is an enclave. Suburbs of Indianapolis. The event is traditionally held on Memorial Day weekend, usually the last weekend of May.
| IndyCar Series | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
| Location | Speedway, Indiana, U.S. |
| Corporate sponsor | Gainbridge Insurance Agency (2019–2022) |
| First race | 1911 |
| Distance | 500 miles (805 km) |
| Laps | 200 |
| Previous names | 500-Mile International Sweepstakes (1911–1915, 1920–1941, 1946–1980) 300-Mile International Sweepstakes (1916) Liberty Sweepstakes (1919) |
Results
“Don’t worry if you’re not a gearhead,” my editor told me after I was hired as a columnist at the Indianapolis Star in 2000. “You’ll figure it out.”
Twenty-two races later, most recently Sunday’s 106th Indianapolis 500 under blue skies, I still haven’t quite figured it out—but I know it’s enough to be dangerous. I also know: I love the event and everything related to it.
I thought years ago, would I really get into it, care about it, learn to enjoy it like so many born hoosiers? Will a stick-and-ball guy (or in my case, stick-and-puck guy) really learn to appreciate the spectacle and sensory overload and raw speed and courage of the sport? Can someone who grew up in the suburbs of New York City and then the Chicago suburbs, two areas not known as motorsports mecca, find beauty and poetry in the throngs of left-turning drivers?
The answer is yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Drivers
The Indy 500 was an official world championship race between 1950 and 1960, meaning that teams and drivers who only competed in the 500 also appeared in the final standings of those seasons. It also means that drivers who did well in the 500 could beat drivers who had a tough F1 season – for example, Ward won the 1959 Indy 500 and scored eight points in doing so – this Finnish Graham Hill (who entered seven F1 races in that season).
Of course, the reality is that Ward was an Indy car driver who raced briefly in F1. While 10 of Ward’s 12 ‘F1’ starts at the Indy 500, he raced in two United States Grand Prix in 1959 and 1963. Unfortunately for him, the car he was driving at Sebring in the ’59 version was a midget. With a two-speed-gearbox, which suffered a clutch failure after 20 laps.
Four years later, Ward got his hands on a BRM-engined Lotus 24, and started 17th out of 21 cars at the Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, but retired with a gearbox failure.
Is the NASCAR
The Indy 500 is part of the IndyCar series, and the open-wheeled cars competing in these races are much lighter than their NASCAR counterparts. They can weigh less than 1,400 pounds, which is less than half of NASCAR’s stock cars.
The fastest recorded speed in IndyCar competition is 236 mph. It lags behind in acceleration, requiring up to three seconds to reach a speed of 90 kmph (56.25 mph) on a straight track.
History
It is contested as part of the IndyCar Series, the top level of American championship car racing, an open-wheel, open-cockpit formula colloquially known as “Indy Car Racing”. The track is nicknamed the “brickyard”, because the racing surface was paved with brick in the fall of 1909. One yard of brick is left open at the start/finish line.
The event, billed as The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,[3] is considered part of the Triple Crown of motorsport. The Triple Crown comprises three of the most prestigious motorsports events in the world, including the Monaco Grand Prix (which traditionally falls on the same day as the Indianapolis 500) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In two different periods, the race was part of the FIA World Championships; Between 1925 and 1928, the World Manufacturers’ Championship and between 1950 and 1960 the World Drivers’ Championship. Official attendance is not disclosed by speedway management, but the permanent seating capacity tops out at 250,000, and infield patrons increase race-day attendance to around 300,000. [4] It shares its date with NASCAR’s 600-mile event in Charlotte in the evening, with drivers completing both events the day before in a so-called double duty. In addition, the Monaco Grand Prix in Formula One also took place on the same date, a few hours earlier in Europe. As such, the last weekend of May is noted as one of the biggest weekends in auto racing.
