* 31 May — 7th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is won by Howdy Wilcox ( USA ) in a Peugeot L45.

The race was founded in 1951 by Howdy Wilcox Jr., Executive Director of the Indiana University Student Foundation, who modeled the race after the Indianapolis 500, which his father had participated in and won in 1919.

* Three Indianapolis 500 winners ( Floyd Davis, Louis Schneider, Howdy Wilcox )

* Howdy Holmes ( b. 1949 ), American racing driver

Another ( driven by Boillot's brother, André ) placed in 1915 ; similar models won in 1916 ( Dario Resta ) and 1919 ( Howdy Wilcox ).

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

Brabham cars also competed in the Indianapolis 500 and in Formula 5000 racing.

Tracks are typically designed for spectators, and racing is fast and loud, with boat motors usually powered by V8s developing well over 500 hp.

Michael " Mick " Doohan AM ( born in Brisbane, Australia ) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.

* February 23 Chrysler's Second Generation HEMI racing engine ( 426 Cubic Inches with Hemispherical Head design ) debuts at the Daytona 500.

In Britain 2-litre sports cars were initially popular ( the Bristol engine being readily available and cheap ), subsequently 1100 cc sports racers became a very popular category for young drivers ( effectively supplanting 500 cc F3 ), with Lola, Lotus, Cooper and others being very competitive, although at the other end of the scale in the early to mid 1960s the national sports racing scene also attracted sophisticated GTs and later a crop of large-engined " big bangers " the technology of which largely gave rise to Can-Am but soon died out.

AVESCO introduced carnival street-race V8 Supercar events ( such as the Clipsal 500 ) and strove to turn Australian touring car racing into a world-class product.

In 1979, Honda on its return to GP racing made an attempt to return the four-stroke to the top class with the NR500, but this project failed, and in 1983, even Honda was winning with a two-stroke 500.

From the mid-1970s through 2001, the top class of GP racing allowed 500 cc with a maximum of four cylinders, regardless of whether the engine was a two-stroke or four-stroke.

For open wheel racing, 1967's revolutionary STP-Paxton Turbocar fielded by racing and entrepreneurial legend Andy Granatelli and driven by Parnelli Jones nearly won the Indianapolis 500 ; the Pratt & Whitney ST6B-62 powered turbine car was almost a lap ahead of the second place car when a gearbox bearing failed just three laps from the finish line.

Texaco has also has also been involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael.

Arie Luyendyk, anglicised form of Arie Luijendijk ( born September 21, 1953 in Sommelsdijk ) is a Dutch auto racing driver, twice winner of the Indianapolis 500.

* Bobby Rahal, auto racing team owner and former Indy 500 Winner

After foreign cars became the norm, foreign drivers started showing up at the Indianapolis 500 on a regular basis, choosing the United States as their primary base for their motor racing activities.

However, it wasn't until 1993 that reigning Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell shocked the racing world by moving to the United States, winning the CART PPG IndyCar World Series Championship and only losing the 500 in his rookie year because of inexperience with green-flag restarts.

Despite public warnings from two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. claiming that if a driver does not respect the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the place " will bite you-hard " Montoya shrugged off the advice claiming that all four corners were exactly the same and that the track required less attention than the road courses in the CART series and in European racing.

The first known use of a V16 in auto racing was by Harry Miller installing a custom-built V16 that he had built for a Cord " supercar " he had been working on into a chassis that he had built for the 1931 Indianapolis 500 driven by Shorty Cantlon.

The Duesenberg brothers introduced the first successful straight-8 racing engine in 1920, when their 3 L engine placed third, fourth and sixth at the Indianapolis 500.

Mitsubishi's motorsport debut was in touring car racing in 1962, when it entered its Mitsubishi 500 Super DeLuxe in the Macau Grand Prix in an effort to promote sales of its first post-war passenger car.

* Fireball 500, a 1966 stock car racing film

The rules were indeed changed, but it was due to an effort by the Speedway to get more car manufacturers involved in the race by discouraging the entry of specialized racing machines which dominated the 500 during the mid-to late -' 20s.

Only 500 were produced as the minimum number of road-going cars required to meet with newly introduced homologation racing rules, allowing it to compete in evolution form for group A racing.

Bryan is the birthplace of 2006 Indianapolis 500 champion — and current NASCAR driver -- Sam Hornish, Jr., Bob Hartman, founder of the Christian rock pioneer group " Petra ", and of Mark Winegardner, chosen to be the author of the novel The Godfather Returns.

A report of the United States ' Philippine Commission in 1900 showed, only 10 out of 23 municipalities in Nueva Ecija had a public school established during the Spanish times and according to the Philippine Commission figures by 1902, 37 public primary schools were established, and 63 Novo Ecijano teachers supported by 16 American " Thomasites ," part of the larger group of some 500 pioneer American teachers who arrived aboard the USS Thomas in September 1901, to help establish an American public school system in the Philippines.

Both achievements took place within an ambitious pioneer crossing of the eastern Antarctic Plateau that started at Novolazerevskaya Base and ended at Progress Base after more than 4, 500 km.

A member of the Fortune 500, the company helped pioneer the mass marketing of credit cards in the early 1990s, and it is now the fourth-largest customer of the United States Postal Service and has the sixth-largest deposit portfolio in the United States.

After World War II, he moved to Philadelphia and founded Jerrold Electronics Corporation, a pioneer in the cable television industry, using a $ 500 loan subsidized by the G. I.

Hawks used real race car drivers in the film, including the 1930 Indianapolis 500 winner Billy Arnold.

* 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.

The Cup currently has a $ 500, 000 bonus for the owner of the winner if it has also won the group one Irish St. Leger run the previous September.

Regardless of whether or not locomotives were settled upon, a prize of £ 500 was offered to the winner of the trials.

It averaged ( achieving a top speed of ) hauling 13 tons, and was declared the winner of the £ 500 prize.

The Women's version of the event is held over 500 m. Other than the race distance this is the same as the men's Kilo event, with the fastest rider over the distance declared the winner.

** Tom Sneva, American former race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

The winner of the Daytona 500 is presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy in Victory Lane, and the winning car is displayed, in race-winning condition, for one year at Daytona 500 Experience, a museum and gallery adjacent to Daytona International Speedway.

Andretti, the 1969 Indianapolis 500 winner, 1978 Formula One World Champion and 1967 Daytona 500 winner, also appeared in Amoco television commercials that aired in local race markets as part of the IndyCar sponsorship campaign.

Regional winners receive £ 2, 500 and the overall winner receives £ 10, 000.

The winner receives $ 500, 000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U. S.

The winner of each of these prizes receives $ 500, 000.

* Wilbur Shaw, ( October 31, 1902-October 30, 1954 ) Three time Indianapolis 500 winner and former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

* Wilbur Shaw, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner

* Tommy Milton, deceased, two time winner of the Indianapolis 500 ( 1921 and 1923 )