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

Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Chiron was unable to compete, having a prior commitment to compete in the Indianapolis 500 on the same day.

Ferrari, who wanted to remain the sole operator of his company's motor sports division, was angered when he was told that he would not be allowed to race at the Indianapolis 500 if the deal went through since Ford fielded Indy cars using the company's engine, and didn't want competition from Ferrari.

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

He contributed to the design of the mid-engined cars that Cooper introduced to Formula One and the Indianapolis 500, and won the Formula One world championship in 1959 and 1960.

The same year, Brabham entered the famous Indianapolis 500 oval race for the first time in a modified version of the Formula One Cooper.

* The Indianapolis 500 is held on the Sunday before Memorial Day.

* 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.

McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup ( Can-Am ).

Further American triumph followed, with Indianapolis 500 wins in McLaren cars for Mark Donohue in 1972 and Johnny Rutherford in 1974 and 1976.

The car was the M2B designed by Robin Herd but the programme was hampered by a poor choice of engines: a 3. 0 litre version of Ford's Indianapolis 500 engine and a Serenissima V8 were used, the latter scoring the team's first point in Britain, but both were underpowered and unreliable.

The most well-attended oval race in the world is the annual Indianapolis 500 ( Indy 500 ) in Speedway, Indiana, sanctioned by Indycar ; in the United States, it is common to refer to open-wheel cars as Indy Cars because of their recognizable appearance at the Indy 500.

The series ' second-biggest event is arguably The Brickyard 400, an annual race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the legendary home of the Indianapolis 500, an open-wheeled race.

The most famous might well be Mario Andretti, who is the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969 ), NASCAR's Daytona 500 ( 1967 ), and the Formula One World Championship ( 1978 ).

* May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

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

* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car ; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.

* May 31 – Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.

* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile ( 696 km ) race.

Despite the increase in foreign drivers commonly being associated with the CART era, it should be noted that four of the first six Indianapolis 500 winners were non-US drivers.

* List of Indianapolis 500 winners

Category: Indianapolis 500 winners

Notable drivers to have raced at Westwood include Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, Indianapolis 500 winners Bobby Rahal and Danny Sullivan, Gilles Villeneuve and Michael Andretti.

Category: Indianapolis 500 winners

Indianapolis 500 winners Buddy Rice, Dan Wheldon, Hélio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya, Sam Hornish, Jr., and Dario Franchitti are all recent participants.

The names of the winners of the Brickyard 400 are inscribed on the PPG Trophy, which is permanently housed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.

Many IndyCar Series and NASCAR drivers used sprint car racing as an intermediate stepping stone on their way to more high profile divisions, including Indianapolis 500 winners A. J.

Category: Indianapolis 500 winners

" Kurtis-Kraft created 120 Indianapolis 500 cars, including five winners.

As a Top Alcohol Dragster rookie in 2004, she won three of the season ’ s final five races, including the 50th annual Mac Tools U. S. Nationals at Indianapolis, and the season-ending Automobile Club of Southern California event at Pomona, where she shared the winners ’ circle with her father-NHRA ’ s first ever father-daughter winners.

Sports Headliners represented most of the leading Formula One drivers and the winners of the past 10 Indianapolis races.

" Kurtis-Kraft created 120 Indianapolis 500 cars, including five winners.

Category: Indianapolis 500 winners

Category: Indianapolis 500 winners

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

Category: Indianapolis 500 winners

Many famous drivers, including two Indianapolis 500 winners, were in the ranks of the Edelbrock team, including Walt Faulkner, Perry Grimm, Cal Niday, Danny Oakes, Harry Stockman, Bill Vukovich, Rodger Ward and Bill Zaring.

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.

* Parnelli Jones, 1963 Indianapolis 500 champion

That year he also competed in the Indianapolis 500 for the first time, and he finished in second position behind Parnelli Jones and won Rookie of the Year honours.

** 30 May – Parnelli Jones wins the 47th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Agajanian / Willard Battery Special Watson-Offenhauser

When the two fastest Lotus-Fords, driven by Jim Clark and Bobby Marshman, fell out of the race with mechanical problems, and Parnelli Jones was knocked out when his fuel tank exploded during a pit stop, Foyt was left alone at the front of the field, and cruised home to win his second Indianapolis 500.

In the 1967 Indianapolis 500, Parnelli Jones ' STP-Paxton Turbocar was expected to easily defeat the field of piston engines.

As of November 2011, Foyt stands as only the third-oldest living winner of the Indianapolis 500 ( Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser are older ), but the longest-ago living winner ( 1961 ).

The speedway Board of Directors when the track opened consisted of Chairman Dan Lufkin, of Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette ; CEO David Lockton ; Donald Riehl, of DLJ ; William Loorz, CEO of Stolte Construction ; Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, and Dick Smothers from the entertainment industry ; J. C. Agajanian, an American motor sport promoter and race car owner ; Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner of the Indianapolis 500 ; Roger Penske, retired race car driver, race car owner and auto related business entrepreneur ; Briggs Cunningham, an American sportsman who raced cars and yachts ; and Chuck Barnes, Chairman and CEO of Sports Headliners, and former Director of Public Relations for Firestone Tires.

Parnelli was initially solely concerned with USAC racing, where success came quickly ; their driver Al Unser won the Indianapolis 500 race in 1970, driving a VPJ Lola car, after leading 190 of the 200 racing laps.

This private project was quickly adopted by Cosworth itself, and the Parnelli engine evolved into the equally legendary Cosworth DFX, an engine which would go on to win every Indianapolis 500 race and USAC / CART Championship between 1978 and 1987.

Jones started Vel ’ s Parnelli Jones Racing, which won the Indianapolis 500 again as an owner in 1970 and 1971 with driver Al Unser driving the Johnny Lightning special.