Past Winners in the 500

We did a young drivers post,
and now we are doing a post
on the older more experienced 
drivers and past winners 

 They include...

Helio Castroneves: 3 time winner
'01, '02, '09

 

Tony Kanaan: 1 time winner
'13

 

Scott Dixon: 1 time winner
'08

   

Juan Pablo Montoya: 1 time winner
'00

 

 

Buddy Lazier: 1 time winner
'96

Jacques Villeneuve: 1 time winner
'95


The record number of past winners in the field for the 500 was 10 in 1992 with a combined total of 20 wins. There were also 3 future winners in the race. (Al Unser, Jr., Buddy Lazier & Eddie Cheever)
The neatest part was that all three 4 time winners were in the 500 that year.



The former winners in that race were:

A. J. Foyt (4 wins)

Al Unser, Sr. (4)

Rick Mears (4)

Gordon Johncock (2)

Mario Andretti (1)

Tom Sneva (1)

Danny Sullivan (1)

Bobby Rahal (1)

Emerson Fittipaldi (1)

Arie Luyendyk (1)

Will we see a four time winner this year?

Or maybe another 2 time champ. 

We can't wait!

Alex's 'Josef' view of the Indy GP weekend

 

There are two distinct aspects to this Josef post.

 

          The Sad Part

Josef finished 17th on race day, which basically ruined Alex's day.
But she was still happy when he drove by every lap. 

 

 (you're probably expecting some pictures, but Alex wants no reminder of that day.
She barely let us put it in the post)

 

   and

 

The Super Happy, Ecstatic Part

 

 

- ON FRIDAY

- Alex got to see and talk to Josef in his pits (basically because we stood by his pit until he got out of the car and noticed her and came over.)           

- Alex got to talk with Josef's mom and dad before qualifying                                                  

- Alex got to go into Josef's shop and met some super nice ladies who work there.

- Alex got to get a Josef shirt (her first 'official' Josef shirt that wasn't homemade).

 

 

- ON SATURDAY

- Alex got to see Josef & he waved at her in a tweet up

- Alex got Josef's chef's hat that he wore while cooking with Joe Namath in St. Pete because Jarod won it for her at the tweet up.

- We met Josef's web designer who took a picture of her in her 'Josef dress' and posted it to Josef's website. (She was kinda a little excited about that.) Thank you, Rob!

 

 

- ON SUNDAY

- Alex got to see Josef

- Alex got to talk to Josef

- Sadly, she also had to say goodbye to Josef (but only for a week and a half so it was all good.)

 

Josef driving his car in the pits

  

You'll notice some other drivers in the background,
they do not matter to Alex & she was upset that we didn't crop them out

  

Alex wants to sit in this section for the 500
(we're not)

 



Looking for Josef
(wrong way, Josef comes from behind you this is the GP not the 500)

 

Josef's garage.

We admit that we took these pictures just to rub it in to Alex that
we can get in the garage area and she can't....she's too young.



And now Alex is really happy because she gets to go back to Indy to see Josef again (race...what race?)

But she's really super happy because

JOSEF qualified 8th for the Indianapolis 500!!!!

  



Sage Karam Indy 500 Rookie

Sage Karam is a rookie in the Indy 500.
He won the Indy Lights championship in 2013.

He will start 31st in his first Indycar race.

Pretty neat watching them work on the car on the opening day of 500 practice.

It's really cool that we have two local guys,

Sage and Marco Andretti,

running in the Indy 500 because it means there are more Indycar articles in our newspaper!



 

On track Indy 500 Opening Day Practice.



In the pits getting ready to complete his Rookie Orientation Program.

 

Thanks Sage for getting a picture with us!


GOOD LUCK in the INDY 500 SAGE!!!
We'll be there rooting for you.

 

Alex's Josef Update #5 GP of Indy

The Grand Prix of Indianapolis was not the best of races for Josef Newgarden. 
so (his #1 fan) Alex was not too happy

& although she did watch the whole race looking for his car each lap, we admit she did get to playing fish school with her goldfish cracker snack as he was stuck back in 17th or so.

 

So To Recap:
After 2 races qualifying in the Firestone Fast Six, Josef Newgarden did not move on from Round 1 qualifying and started the Grand Prix of Indy from the 15th position. 
He moved up to 12th as the race immediately went yellow  but ran into trouble when he made contact with another car on the first restart.  Boo. 

He ended the race in 17th and dropped from 10th to 13th in the Indycar points standings.

 

 

 

Josef's car on Sunday, a bit prior to going out for Opening Day Indy 500 practice.

 

The Happy part, for Alex ,was that she got to see Josef on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (but that's a whole other post that we'll do later because Alex insists)

 

 

 

More importantly Josef has started a video blog series about the days leading up to the Indy 500.

He answers questions and talks about practice and giveaways (like a Mario bobble head) and ... well it really doesn't matter, Alex is just thrilled she gets to see more Josef everyday on the computer.

 

This is Alex's favorite of his vlogs, Day 2, because he mentions us (The 321 Indycar Kids) and answers one of our questions!

 

 

Click here to see his other video blogs

 (Translation from Alex: Click here to see lots more Josef! and Josef! Yeah!)

 

 

 

Catch Josef in qualifying on

Saturday & Sunday (May 17th & 18th) on ABC.

 

 Can't wait to see him in his 3rd Indianapolis 500! 

Sunday May 25th!

 

 

 

GO JOSEF...GO JOSEF...GO JOSEF

 

 

 

Youth Movement in the Indy 500

 
Making a 10 hour drive back home from Indianapolis, we had a lot of time to look through the GP of Indy and Indy 500 programs and got to noticing that there are a lot of young drivers trying to make the 500 this year.  Which is pretty cool.

 

 

There are young 'veterans'



Sebastian Saavedra
Age 23
3 '500' starts  Best Finish: 23rd (2010)
 

Josef Newgarden
Age 23
2 '500' starts  Best Finish: 25th (2012)
 

Carlos Munoz: 2nd year (22)
Age 22
1 '500' start  Best Finish: 2nd (2013)


And some Rookies

Jack Hawksworth
Age 23
2012 Star Mazda Champion
 

Carlos Huertas
Age 23 
2nd highest rookie in points (18th)

Sage Karam
Age 19
2013 Indy Lights Champ


Looking forward to seeing them all running
in the 98th Indianapolis 500!!!