The Indy 500 Pace Car As A Guide To How Bad Things Are If you were a time traveler trying to determine, for some reason, what car culture was like in America in any given year, you could pretty much use the contemporaneous Indy 500 pace car as your one data point and come to some pretty reasonable conclu Read more ... sions.

How I Almost Missed The Most Iconic Shot Of The Indy 500 My camera and I have been to the best races on the planet. We’ve had full accreditation for Formula One, MotoGP, the World Endurance Championship and many others. But there was one photo that had a prominent place on my bucket list—the “milk sh Read more ... ot,” the photograph of the Indy 500 winner drenched in m...

The Trash Left By 350,000 Indy 500 Fans Is Staggering This year’s Indianapolis 500 lured in 350,000 fans, one of the biggest crowds in all of racing history. Between that huge crowd and the fact that the Indy 500 is—for many—just a giant party, there were insane amounts of trash left at the racewa Read more ... y. Here’s a look at the aftermath.

Tennis’ surprising connection to the Indy 500

These Colorized Photos Show the Evolution of Indy 500 Racing The first Indy 500 was held on May 30, 1911

The Indy 500 Pace Car As A Guide To How Fucked Things Are If you were a time traveler trying to determine, for some reason, what car culture was like in America in any given year, you could pretty much use the contemporaneous Indy 500 pace car as your one data point and come to some pretty reasonable conclu Read more ... sions.

Here's The 'Milk List' For The 100th Running Of The Indy 500 The Indianapolis 500 doesn’t greet winners with a big bottle of champagne as most races do. They hand the winner an ice cold bottle of milk. This creates a curious artifact every year: a list of driver’s milk preferences. Who wants the whole expe Read more ... rience? Who’d rather water it down? Behold! Here’s thi...

What It Really Feels Like To Race In The Indy 500 You’ve never felt nerves like those on the morning of the Indianapolis 500.

Indy 500 champions choose 1992 finish as greatest race INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan Hunter-Reay admits to being biased when asked about the greatest race in Indianapolis 500 history. He also makes it clear that picking his own victory in 2014 is based more on merit than ego. There…

Watch Straight No Chaser step into Jim Nabors' shoes, sing to kick off the Indy 500 For the first time in years, someone other than Jim Nabors performed “Back Home Again in Indiana” to start the Indy 500. Instead, a cappella group...