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Races

• 1977 Indianapolis 500 — (May 29, 1977)

  1977 month of May

• 1982 Indianapolis 500 — (May 30, 1982)

  1982 month of May

• Spin and Win — 1985 Indianapolis 500 (May 26, 1985)

  Danny Sullivan's spin and win

• Happy Father's Day — 1986 CART Budweiser/G.I. Joe's 200 (June 15, 1986)

  Michael runs out of gas, Mario wins.

• The Fastest 500 — 1990 Indianapolis 500 (May 27, 1990)

  Luyendyk's upset, fastest 500 to date

• The Pass — 1996 CART Toyota Grand Prix of Monterey (September 8, 1996)

  Alex Zanardi's 'corkscrew' of Bryan Herta

• First-ever Night Race — IRL 1997 IRL True Value 500k (June 6, 1997)

  Luyendyk/Billy Boat/Foyt controversey

• http://www.versus.com/blogs/indycar/texas-qualifications-preview/

• 2010 Honda Edmonton Indy — 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series Edmonton Indy (July 25, 2010)

  Castroneves 'blocking' controversey

• 1997 CART Portland Blundell, de Ferran, Boesel 3-wide finish
• 2000 CART Michigan- Montoya & Michael Andretti
• 2006 Indianapolis 500
• 2011 Indy 500 - Rookie JR Hildebrand leads, but crashes on last turn of the last lap, Dan Wheldon slips by to won, then he is killed later in the season at Las Vegas.

Nicknames - Drivers and other personalities

• "Super Tex" - A. J. Foyt
• "The Captain" - Roger Penske
• "Lone Star J.R." - Johnny Rutherford
• "The Gas Man" - Tom Sneva
• "The Flyin' Hawaiian" - Danny Ongais
• "The Rocket" - Rick Mears

• "Spiderman" - Helio Castroneves
• "T.K." - Tony Kanaan
• "The Thrill from West Hill" and "PT" - Paul Tracy
• "Big Al" (Al Unser, Sr.), "Little Al" (Al Unser Jr.), and "Just Al" (Al Unser III)
• "King Hiro" - Hiro Matsushita

1911 qualifying

• https://www.newspapers.com/image/6684354
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5009652/
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/6688543
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/6688850/?terms=trials

• news https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5300457/

Setting the field

To further refine the entry list as the date of the race approached, a qualification system was implemented whereby each car would be required to demonstrate a sufficiently competitive pace. With several of the top entries having already recorded, during the "unofficial" practice time of the month, complete laps at up to 88 mph (142 km/h), a minimum required speed of 75 mph (121 km/h), based on a flying start over a 0.25 miles (0.40 km) section of the main straightaway, was considered to be within reason. Thus, all cars successfully completing an officially-timed run of the quarter-mile distance at or under 12 seconds would be accepted into the starting field; those that did not would be given two additional attempts before being rejected, a policy that began the tradition of three qualification attempts allotted to each entered car.

In the years following these inaugural qualification sessions, which were held on Friday May 26, Saturday 27 and 28 May 1911, anecdotes would occasionally arise, and thereafter be steadily embellished in their retelling, regarding the purported qualifying times and speeds of given competitors, and how they compared to one another. In reality, no records of the sessions were kept at all, let alone publicized, with the sole objective being the confirmation of each car's capability to achieve the minimum speed. Also in contrast to later eras, both the starting order and the car numbering of the participants were determined not by respective speeds or previous seasonal point totals, but by entry date, with the Strang-driven Case entry being assigned #1 in the first starting position.

Elimination trials - Friday May 26

• https://www.newspapers.com/image/37773845

Qualified cars (numerical order)
No.	Driver	Notes
1	Lewis Strang	Qualified
3	Harry Endicott	Qualified
4	Johnny Aitken	Qualified
5	Louis Disbrow	Qualified
6	Frank Fox	Qualified
7	Harry Knight	Qualified
8	Joe Jagersberger	Qualified
9	Will Jones	Qualified
10	Gil Andersen	Qualified
11	Spencer Wishart	Qualified
12	W. H. Turner	Qualified
15	Fred Belcher	Qualified
16	Arthur Chevrolet	Qualified
17	Charles Basle	Qualified
18	Eddie Hearne	Qualified
19	Harry Grant	Qualified
20	Charlie Merz	Qualified
25	Harry Cobe	Qualified
26	Jack Tower	Qualified
28	David L. Bruce-Brown	Qualified
30	Lee Frayer	Qualified
31	Joe Dawson	Qualified
32	Ray Harroun	Qualified
33	Ralph Mulford	Qualified
34	Teddy Tetzlaff	Qualified
35	Herbert Lytle	Qualified
36	Hughie Hughes	Qualified
38	Ralph Beardsley	Qualified
39	Caleb Bragg	Qualified
42	Bill Endicott	Qualified
45	Bob Burman	Qualified
46	Billy Knipper	Qualified

Failed to qualify (numerical order)
No.	Driver	Notes
2	Ralph DePalma	No attempt (broken cylinder head)
13	Billy Pearce	Did not arrive (Withdrawn)
14	Frank Gelnaw	Did not arrive (Withdrawn)
21	Howdy Wilcox
22	Fred Clemons	No attempt (broken cam gear)
23	Mel Marquette
24	Fred Ellis	Failed to qualify (1st attempt)
27	Ernest Delaney
29	Harold Van Gorder	No attempt
37	Charles Bigelow
40	Rupert Jeffkins
41	Howard Hall
43	Louis Edmunds
44	Arthur Greiner	No attempt (car under repair; practice crash by Gaston Morris)

Elimination trials - Monday May 29

Qualified cars (numerical order)
No.	Driver	Notes
2	Ralph DePalma	Qualified
21	Howdy Wilcox	Qualified
23	Bert Adams Mel Marquette	Qualified
24	Fred Ellis	Qualified
27	Ernest Delaney	Qualified
37	Charles Bigelow	Qualified
41	Howard Hall	Qualified
44	Arthur Greiner	Qualified

Failed to qualify (numerical order)
No.	Driver	Notes
13	Billy Pearce	Did not arrive (Withdrawn)
14	Frank Gelnaw	Did not arrive (Withdrawn)
22	Fred Clemons	No attempt (mechanical failure Saturday 5/28)
29	Harold Van Gorder	No attempt (Practice crash Saturday 5/28)
40	Rupert Jeffkins	Failed to qualify (too slow)
43	Louis Edmunds	Failed to qualify (too slow)

• https://www.newspapers.com/image/6688911
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/6688911

• monday trials

after burman speed trials, qualifying until 12 noon

• https://www.newspapers.com/image/37773915
• http://www.champcarstats.com/races/191105.htm

• Harold Van Gorder - practice crash on saturday
• Louis Edmunds -too slow, did not qualify
• Fred Clemons - engine failure, did not qualify

Attendance

• 1911: 85,000
• 1912: 75,000
• 1913: 90,000
• 1914: 110,000 ("exceeding 1913 crowd by 20k)
• 1915: 60,000
• 1916: 83,000
• 1917: — no race
• 1918: — no race
• 1919: 120,000
• 1920: 120,000 (up 10k from previous year)
• 1921: 135,000-150,000 ("last year was 125k")
• 1922: 135,000
• 1923: 150,000
• 1924: 135,000-140,000
• 1925: 150,000
• 1926: 135,000
• 1927: 135,000
• 1928: 140,000
• 1929: 160,000
• 1930: 165,000-170,000
• 1931: 165,000 ("higher than last year...160k")
• 1932: unknown [1]
• 1933: 100,000
• 1934: 140,000
• 1935: 157,000
• 1936: 170,000
• 1937: 170,000
• 1938: under 150,000 [2]
• 1939: 145,000
• 1940: 150,000
• 1941: 160,000
• 1942: — no race
• 1943: — no race
• 1944: — no race
• 1945: — no race
• 1946: 165,000
• 1947: 165,000
• 1948: 200,000
• 1949: 150,000
• 1950: 175,000
• 1951: 150,000
• 1952: 200,000
• 1953: 190,000
• 1954: 175,000
  • Threat of rain may have scared away crowd
• 1955: 150,000
• 1956: 125,000-150,000
  • Muddy infield due to heavy rains in the days before; crowd "substantially down" from previous year
• 1957: 170,000
• 1958: 175,000
• 1959: 180,000 (116,000 permanent seats)
• 1960: 200,000
• 1961: 300,000
• 1962: 230,000
• 1963: 250,000
• 1964: 300,000
• 1965: 250,000
• 1966: 275,000
• 1967: 250,000 (Wed.); 175,000 (Thu.)
• 1968: 300,000
  • 204000 seats https://www.newspapers.com/image/106811096/
  • Crowd may have been overestimated due to muddy infield; infield crowd was "obviously thin"
• 1969: 275,000
• 1970: 250,000
  • 234,000 seats[3]
• 1971: 261,000
• 1972: 275,000
• 1973: 300,000 (Mon.); 200,000 (Tue.); 175,000 (Wed.)
• 1974: 275,000
  • 2000 taken out[4]
• 1975: 300,000
  • 234000 permanent seats, 60000 folding chairs, total 400000[5]

• 1976: 350,000
• 1977: 350,000
  • 237000 seats[6]

• 1978: 325,000
• 1979: 350,000
  • 239000 seats[7]

• 1980: 350,000
• 1981: 350,000 (422,000 on ABC)
• 1982: 350,000
• 1983: 325,000
  • 235000 seat [8], sold out in April
• 1984: 400,000
• 1985: 400,000
  • [9], more than 235000, or is it 255702?

• 1986: 400,000 (Sun.); 5,800 (Mon.); 325,000 (Sat.)
  • 250000 seats[10]...at least 235000 [11]...past two years sold out in august....250k[12]

• 1987: 400,000
  • sold out in august...new stand next year [13]

• 1988: 400,000
• 1989: 400,000
• 1990: 400,000
• 1991:
• 1992: 400,000
• 1993: 400,000
• 1994: 400,000
• 1995: 375,000
• 1996: "400,000"
  • 1996 U.S. 500: 110,879
• 1997: 300,000 (Sun.); 200,000 (Mon.); 100,000 (Tue.)
• 1998: Unknown [14]
• 1999:

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Winner led only one lap in the race

List of races where the winner only led 1 lap (the final lap)

• AAA/USAC/CART/IRL/IndyCar
  • 1948 Milwaukee (2) - Johnny Mantz
  • 1952 Phoenix - Johnnie Parsons
  • 1955 DuQuoin - Jimmy Bryan
  • 1956 Atlanta - Eddie Sachs
  • 1970 Phoenix - Swede Savage (battled Roger McCluskey, McCluskey's car hesitated on the backstretch on the final lap with low fuel pressure)
  • 1982 Elkhart - Hector Rebaque (Al Jr ran out of fuel on final lap)
  • 1986 Portland - Mario Andretti (passed son Michael on final stretch when Michael ran out of fuel, closest road course finish ever)
  • 1986 Tamiami - Al Unser Jr. (Roberto Guerrero ran out of fuel on final lap after leading the whole race)
  • 1996 Elkhart - Michael Andretti (Al Jr. blew his engine on the final corner)
  • 2002 Texas I - Jeff Ward (side-by-side, passed Al Jr on the outside on final lap at the stripe to win by 0.0111 seconds)
  • 2005 Montreal - Oriol Servia (leader Timo Glock penalized for blatant blocking and 'short cutting' the circuit with 3 laps to go, had to allow Servia to pass him on the final lap)
  • 2011 Indianapolis - Dan Wheldon (JR Hildebrand wrecked in turn 4 of final lap)

500 milers with pass for lead on final lap

• 1973 Pocono - McCluskey runs out of fuel, Foyt took lead on Long Pond straight
• 1995 Michigan - Scott Pruett vs. Al Unser Jr. (passed/re-passed not at the line)
• 1998 Michigan - Greg Moore vs. Jimmy Vasser
• 1999 Michigan - Tony Kanaan vs. Max papis
• 2000 Michigan - Montoya vs. Michael Andretti
• 2006 Indy - Sam Hornish Jr. vs. Marco Andretti
• 2011 Indy - Dan Wheldon vs. JR Hildebrand
• 2012 Indy - Sato tried to pass Franchitti in turn 1, crashed (barely got the nose ahead to take the lead very briefly)

• NASCAR Winston/Nextel/Sprint Cup (completeness unknown)
  • Auto Club Speedway: #29-Kevin Harvick; #48-Johnson was 2nd and passed by Harvick on the final lap, 3/27/2011.
  • Michigan: #5-Mark Martin; 2nd was #24-Jeff Gordon BUT #48-Johnson and #16-Biffle both led before running out of fuel, 6/14/2009
  • Talladega: #09-Brad Keselowski; 2nd was #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. [#99-Edwards was passed but wrecked], 4/26/2009
  • Talladega: #24-Jeff Gordon; 2nd was #48-Jimmie Johnson, 10-7-2007
  • Texas: #31-Jeff Burton; 2nd: #17-Matt Kenseth, 4/2007
  • Las Vegas: #48-Jimmie Johnson; 2nd: #17-Kenseth, 3/2006
  • Homestead: #18-Bobby Labonte; 2nd: #29-Kevin Harvick, 11/2003
  • Darlington: #32-Ricky Craven; 2nd: #97-Kurt Busch, 3/16/2003
  • Jimmy Spencer, Pepsi 400 1994
  • Atlanta, David Pearson 9/17/1961
  • bristol : 1 - Fred Lorenzen 7/26/1964