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.

Lotus was already a Ford partner for their Indy 500 project.

It was powered by the 4. 2 L Fairlane engine with a Colotti transaxle, the same power plant was used by the Lola GT and the single-seater Lotus 29 that came in a highly controversial second at the Indy 500 in 1963.

Beyond Tough, a 2002 documentary series, aired on Discovery Channel about the world's most dangerous and intense professions, such as alligator wrestlers and Indy 500 pit crews, was hosted by Marrow.

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.

Juan Pablo Montoya is the only other driver with wins in all 3 series, with an Indy 500 win ( 2000 ), 7 Formula One wins and 2 Sprint Cup wins ( 2007 and 2010 ).

Designed specifically for the game Indy 500, it functioned almost identically in operation and design to the regular paddle controller.

He returned to the Indy 500 in 2001 and 2002.

In 1999, he was presented with the Sagamore of the Wabash award, reflecting upon his Indy 500 career.

Lora L. Corum-winner of the 1924 Indy 500

* Mark Dismore, Indy Racing League and Indianapolis 500 driver.

* Arthur W Graham III: Creator of 1st fully automatic electronic race timing & scoring system ; long-time Indy 500 Executive Race Official

* Howdy Wilcox-Indy 500 racing pioneer and winner of the 1919 Indy 500

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

The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is held annually over the Memorial Day weekend, the last full weekend in May, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.

Most of his friends were as dumbfounded as the professors at the Schola when they heard about his new plan to return to the classrooms, especially as d ' Indy was an admiring pupil of Saint-Saëns, not particularly favoured by Satie.

( A DOHC head design was used in later years at Indy.

The Motorcycles used in the chase from the castle were a mixed bag: the scout model with sidecar in which Indy and Henry escape was an original BMW R75, complete with machine gun pintle on the sidecar, while the pursuing vehicles were more modern machines dressed up with equipment and logos to make them resemble German army models.

In 1920, Vincent d ' Indy published a study of Dukas's music ; Debussy remained a lifelong friend, though feeling that Dukas's music was not French enough ; Saint-Saëns worked with Dukas to complete an unfinished opera by Guiraud, and they were both engaged in the rediscovery and editing of the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau ; Fauré dedicated his Second Piano Quintet to Dukas in 1921.

On the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, each episode was framed as though it were being told by an older Indy ( usually a very elderly George Hall, though one featured Harrison Ford ).

Nicknamed the Indy, it was launched in 1986 and is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers.

His son, Arie Jr., was an Indy Lights racer.

Nazareth was home to the Nazareth Speedway, a one mile tri-oval paved track of Indy and USAC racing fame.

Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger ( the first name was never used ) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zurich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d ' Indy.

" Following WWII, the race was commonly recognized as " The 500 ", " The 500-Mile Race ", " Indianapolis 500-Mile Race ", " Indianapolis 500 ," or " Indy 500 ," and usually the ordinal ( e. g. " 50th ") preceded it.

By 1983, an agreement was made for the USAC-sanctioned Indy 500 to be reflected on the CART calendar, and CART points were awarded towards the championship.

In the past, especially during the years when USAC sanctioned the race but CART was the dominant sanctioning body, rules between the race and the sanctioning body differed at times, resulting in chassis and engines being legal for Indy, yet not being legal for other events that season.

The organization was established January 1, 1985 in Indianapolis by its founder John Blazier and includes an experienced membership available for discussion and advice on Indy 500 memorabilia trading and Indy 500 questions in general.

The fourth edition of Talisman was demoed and sold at Gen Con Indy 2007

The media activity around the event was intense, with Montoya and his CART teammate Jimmy Vasser being the first CART drivers to " cross-over " to drive in the Indy 500.

However, a month before the 2008 season, ChampCar was absorbed by the rival Indy Racing League.

Merecedes pilot Hermann Lang's average race speed of about was not beaten at Indianapolis Indy 500 for three decades.

As well as the Cosworth, a Honda engine based on an Indy V8 by John Judd also appeared ; a rumoured Lamborghini V8 never raced.

They both later worked on extending Linux for MIPS to run on SGI's Indy computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system.

Even on tight non-oval street circuits such as the Grand Prix of Toronto, open-wheel Indy Cars attain speeds of.

Examples include MK Engineering ( who have continued on the concept and now offer their MK Indy, based on the Ford Sierra ), RaceTech with their Lada based ESTfield, DD7 in Umeå, Sweden and many more.

Went on to become an Indy Racing League driver before a testing accident paralyzed him and ended his driving career, later starting Sam Schmidt Motorsports, a successful Firestone Indy Lights championship-winning team, and the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation.

It expanded on LucasArts ' traditional adventure game structure by including a flexible point system-the IQ score, or " Indy Quotient "-and by allowing the game to be completed in several different ways.

" In 1894, composer Vincent d ' Indy founded the Schola Cantorum to promote French national music ; the society put on several revivals of works by Rameau.

Danica Patrick on Pole Day at Indy, 2007

The Borg-Warner Trophy, presented to the Indy 500 winners in victory lane, and kept the rest of the year on permanent display at the Hall of Fame Museum.

It became the lone top-level race the body still sanctioned, as it ultimately dropped all other Indy car races ( as well as their stock car division ) to concentrate on sprints and midgets.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Indy 500 and the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway were held on different days of the week.

File: Lotus Elise at Indy Concours. jpg | US " Federal Elise " configuration of a standard Lotus Elise S2 on display in Indianapolis

The first " merged " event was the GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300 from Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 29, 2008.

He was the only European driver to race at Indy in its 11 years on the World Championship schedule, but his day ended after 40 laps.

In December 2004, Clarke began work on Dijjer, a distributed P2P web cache, and Indy, a collaborative music discovery system, both in conjunction with ChangeTv, a company founded by his long-time collaborator, Steven Starr, who later brought in Clarke and Oliver Luckett as co-founders.

He also appeared in 2010 on an episode of the Food Network show " Ace of Cakes " titled " Indy, Ice and Improv ".

d ' Indy, on the other hand, speaks of its mystical significance, saying that it has " nothing of the pagan spirit about it,.