Race Notes
- Pole position: Bill Vukovich – 4:20.13 (4 laps)
- Fastest lead lap: Bill Vukovich – 1:06.240
- The purse for first place was $89,496 (US$777,413 in 2012 dollars).
Read more about this topic: 1953 Indianapolis 500
Famous quotes containing the words race and/or notes:
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the “tough guy;” today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek,
And made Hell grant what love did seek;”
—John Milton (1608–1674)