Bob Pockrass
Fox Motorsports Insider
With the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 and with 108 years of history (the race did not take the duration of the duration), the Indy 500 has provided innumerable memorable moments.
We classify the 25 most memorable moments, from 25 to 1, and we will tell them daily until May 25, when the 109 of Indianapolis 500 becomes green (10 am et en fox).
The thesis moments will surely evoke memories, some that will make you smile, some who could make you laugh, also some that you could shy. But all memorable. Let’s immerse ourselves!
No. 25: Jim Clark’s victory in 1965
The Indianapolis 500 of 1965 will go down in history for a couple of reasons. Jim Clark’s victory in a Ford lotus scored the first time a rear motor car won the race. That was a surprise in the sense that 27 of the 33 cars in the event were rear engine cars, since the equipment and drivers could match the power and balance of the cars to make them faster than the red motors Roadsters.
Clark, thanks to Ford, also Nascar’s wooden brothers had fame facing their car. They never had to change the tires, but they had to feed it twice, and their fuel methods were much faster than their competitors.
No. 24: Newgarden passes Ericsson for 2023 victory
The 2023 Indianapolis 500 will become one of the most controversial finishes. Instead of letting the race end under caution when a late race accident would generally have turned out that the race never restarts, the series officials opted for the red flag of the race, the third red flag in the last 15 laps.
Marcus Ericsson led at that time, but was seen as a duck sitting for the race of a lap until the end. And he was like Josef Newgarden made the pass in the setback of the last round for his first in what would be the consecutive victories of Indy 500.
No. 23: The milk tradition was born in 1936
Louis Meyer won his third Indianapolis 500 in 1936, and was the beginning of a couple of traditions. The first was something involuntary. Someone gave him a bottle of whey to drink after the race. That began the famous tradition of drinking milk in victory.
The other was that it was the first race for the Borg-Warner trophy, which is still the trophy given to the winner of Indianapolis 500.
No. 22: The Unser becomes the oldest winner
The Unser did not have a trip for the Indianapolis 500 of 1987. But when Danny Unais suffered a brain shock in a shipwreck, Roger Penske needed a driver. Then he called Unser. Hey, I also needed a car. Penske found a one -year car that the team had on display in a hotel in Pennsylvania near her store.
Unser was no stranger to winning in Indianapolis, since he had three victories in his career. He made him a fourth historical victory in 1987, already 47 years, 360 days, he is still the oldest pilot to win the Indy 500.
Go back daily for the next most memorable moment on our list.
Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. Decades have passed engine sports, including more than 30 Daytona 500s, with periods in ESPN, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobpock.
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