Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars

Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars

The Indianapolis 500 auto race has used a pace car every year since 1911. In the interest of safety, Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl G. Fisher is commonly credited with the concept of a "rolling start" led by a pace car. Nearly all races at the time, as well as all Formula One races even to the present, utilize a standing start.

In almost every year since 1936, it has been a tradition that the winner of the Indianapolis 500 be presented with one of that year's pace cars (or a replica).

Read more about Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars:  Pace Lap, Caution Periods, Cars, Pacemakers (1911–1978), Pace Cars (1979–present), Gallery

Famous quotes containing the words pace and/or cars:

    Come, blunt your spear with us,
    our pace is hot.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)