Ray Harroun became the 1st winner of the Indy 500 car race in 1911. He averaged a speed of 74.6 mph and finished in 6 hours and 42 min.
Zero. Jeff Gordon is a Nascar driver. He does not compete in the Indianapolis 500, which is an Indy Racing League event. He has won the Brickyard 400 four times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Four laps is equivalent to one mile. This therefore means that 125 laps make up the Indianapolis 500 miles.
The track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a 2.5 mile oval track. The Indianapolis 500 is 200 laps.
Brazilian Tony Kanaan won the 2013 Indianapolis 500.
The popular Indianapolis 500 is very similar to the Daytona 500. The Indianapolis 500 is a 500 mile race in which the people who are racing drive in cars.
40 cars started to first Indianapolis 500 in 1911.
Zero. Jeff Gordon is a Nascar driver. He does not compete in the Indianapolis 500, which is an Indy Racing League event. He has won the Brickyard 400 four times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The first known telecast of Nascar was in 1960 and it was the Daytona 500 race.
Indianapolis 500 (Indy Racing League)Brickyard 400 (Nascar Sprint Cup Series)Indianapolis Grand Prix (Grand Prix motorcycle racing)
Four laps is equivalent to one mile. This therefore means that 125 laps make up the Indianapolis 500 miles.
Tony Stewart won Nascar's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2005 and 2007. He never won the Indy 500.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the home of Verizon Indy Car and NASCAR races. The track is located in Speedway, Indiana. Speedway is a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana.
It's more of a who. not a what. Dale Earnhardt was a great NASCAR racer, before he died in the Daytona 500 on the last lap at turn 4.
The first race on May 30, 1911 was called the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race a/k/a International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race. The race is now known as the Indianapolis 500.
He won three NASCAR championships and the first Daytona 500.
IRL driver Dario Franchitti won the latest Indianapolis 500 on May 30, 2010. Nascar holds 400 mile races at the Brickyard.
Starting in 1982, the Daytona 500 became the first race to begin the Nascar schedule.