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The Indianapolis 500 is dissimilar immoderate different sporting lawsuit successful the world.
The two-week-long festival dubbed the 'Greatest Spectacle In Racing' culminates successful the biggest single-day assemblage of immoderate sporting lawsuit successful the world.
More than 300,000 radical flock to Indianapolis Motor Speedway to ticker 33 drivers contention astatine speeds of much than 350 km/h for 3 hours straight.
Stan Sport is the lone spot to ticker the 2023 IndyCar Series, featuring Will Power, Scott McLaughlin and Scott Dixon. All the enactment streaming advertisement free, unrecorded and connected demand
The celebrations and traditions associated with the lawsuit are astir arsenic important arsenic the contention itself.
They scope from the weird to the wonderful, with a absorption connected participants and attendees.
Here's everything you request to cognize astir the 107th moving of the Indianapolis 500.
WHY DO THEY CELEBRATE WITH MILK AT THE INDY 500?
After winning his 2nd Indianapolis 500 title, Louis Meyer asked for a vessel of buttermilk.
The communicative goes that increasing up, his parent told him it would chill him down connected a blistery day.
It's been a contented ever since to springiness the contention victor a celebratory swig.
Such is the value of the tradition, drivers take earlier the contention whether they would similar skim, 2 per cent, oregon full beverage should they win.
There are immoderate fascinating stats down the beverage choice. Whole beverage is selected by 52 per cent of drivers but lone 30 per cent of those drinkers person won.
In the past 10 years, a operator has ne'er selected skim beverage and won. This year, Romain Grosjean and Katherine Legge person some opted for skim milk.
Will Power opted to enactment down "no preference" the twelvemonth that helium won successful 2018.
What drivers bash with the beverage is up to them. Some portion it, immoderate stock it, others person doused themselves successful it, making for a smelly concern soon thereafter.
KISSING THE BRICKS
One of the newest traditions, ironically, didn't statesman with the Indianapolis 500.
In 1996, NASCAR operator Dale Jarrett won the 'Brickyard 400', which was NASCAR's reply to the IndyCar race.
After winning the race, Jarrett and his technologist Todd Parrott knelt down and kissed the gait of bricks which people the start/finish line.
It's been a contented ever since for the victor of the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400 until its demise.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway's nickname the 'Brickyard' comes from the 20-year play successful which the way was paved with bricks.
In 1930, enactment began to pave portion the way with asphalt. By 1950, conscionable the gait of bricks connected the beforehand consecutive remained - a symbolic marker of the speedway's history.
THE BORG-WARNER TROPHY AND THE 'BABY BORG'
The Borg-Warner Trophy is 1 of motorsport's astir unsocial and prized possessions.
It is unsocial successful that the look of each Indianapolis 500 victor is added to the tremendous sterling metallic trophy.
The name, twelvemonth of victory, and mean velocity are engraved adjacent to the look of each winner.
The faces aren't the lone absorbing element. Atop the trophy is simply a bare sanction waving a chequered flag.
The trophy has been awarded each twelvemonth since 1936, and with the contention successful its 107th moving it has had to turn successful stature with a Super Bowl-style hold to its base.
Indianapolis 500 winners ne'er instrumentality location the trophy. Instead, a miniature 'Baby Borg' replica of the Borg-Warner trophy lasting 46cm gangly is fixed to the winner.
The Baby Borg has been awarded since 1988 portion the existent time stays astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Previous winners person been awarded Baby Borgs retroactively successful the years since.
BACK HOME IN INDIANA
Since 1946, the opus '(Back Home Again in) Indiana' has been a staple of pre-race festivities.
Jim Nabors astir famously sang the iconic tune, which pays tribute to the Hoosier state, from 1972 until 2014 earlier retiring.
The work of singing the iconic opus wsa handed astir until Jim Cornelison became a changeless fixture from 2017.
MEMORIAL DAY
For a agelong time, the Indianapolis 500 was ever held connected Memorial Day.
Through to 1970, the contention was held connected May 30 careless of the time of the week unless it fell connected Sunday. In that event, the contention was moved to May 31.
Since 1974, the contention has ever been held connected Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.
Sunday has had the astir contention days with 46, followed by Monday (15), Saturday (12), and 8 apiece for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Dramatic extremity to Indy 500 qualifying
LAST ROW PARTY
Perhaps 1 of the much grim traditions of contention week is the Last Row Party.
The lawsuit is simply a cocktail enactment and roast of the slowest drivers who volition commencement from the rear of the grid.
Organised by the Indianapolis Press Club Foundation, the charitable lawsuit has been held astir each twelvemonth since 1972 and takes spot the Thursday anterior to contention day.
The 3 drivers are presented with jackets and inducted into the 'Last Row Society' and gifts including cheques for 31 cents, 32 cents, and 33 cents for the respective trio.
Christian Lundgaard, Sting Ray Robb, and Jack Harvey featured astatine this year's event. It's the 2nd quality for Lundgaard and Harvey successful consecutive years.
WHO IS THE FAVOURITE TO WIN?
Pole sitter Alex Palou is the short-priced favourite for this year's contention and his Chip Ganassi Racing teammates aren't acold behind.
All 4 entries person shown scintillating qualifying and contention pace. Scott Dixon starts from the 2nd enactment successful sixth, Takuma Sato from eighth, and past year's victor Marcus Ericsson from 10th.
McLaren enactment each 4 of its cars successful the apical 12, led by Felix Rosenqvist successful third, Pato O'Ward successful fifth, Alexander Rossi successful seventh, and Tony Kanaan successful ninth.
HOW MUCH DOES THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 WINNER GET PAID?
This year's victor volition pouch astir $4.5 million.
HOW CAN I WATCH THE INDIANAPOLIS 500?
Stan Sport volition transportation live, ad-free sum of the Indianapolis 500 begins astatine 1am Monday (AEST).
WHEN DOES THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 START?
The greenish emblem falls astatine 2.30am Monday (AEST).
HOW LONG IS THE INDIANAPOLIS 500?
As the sanction suggests, the contention is simply a 500-mile matter and astir runs for 3 hours depending connected information car interventions.
The shortest Indianapolis 500 took spot successful 1976, which ran for conscionable 102 laps aft rainfall intervened.
The shortest Indianapolis 500 to spell the afloat 200-lap region was successful 2021, which lasted 2 hours and 37 minutes and was won by Helio Castroneves.
The 2nd shortest contention could conceivably beryllium considered the longest too.
Officially, the 1973 contention ran for 2 hours and 5 minutes, but was held implicit 3 days owed to crashes and rainfall and yet won by Gordon Johncock.
The inaugural contention successful 1911 remains the longest successful past astatine six hours and 42 minutes, claimed by Ray Harroun.
INDIANAPOLIS 500 STARTING GRID (TOP 12):
P1 - Alex Palou - Chip Ganassi Racing
P2 - Rinus VeeKay - Ed Carpenter Racing
P3 - Felix Rosenqvist - McLaren
P4 - Santino Ferrucci - AJ Foyt Racing
P5 - Pato O'Ward - McLaren
P6 - Scott Dixon - Chip Ganassi Racing
P7 - Alexander Rossi - McLaren
P8 - Takuma Sato - Chip Ganassi Racing
P9 - Tony Kanaan - McLaren
P10 - Marcus Ericsson - Chip Ganassi Racing
P11 - Benjamin Pedersen - AJ Foyt Racing
P12 - Will Power - Team Penske
Power becomes archetypal Aussie to triumph Indy 500
THE 10 MOST RECENT INDIANAPOLIS 500 WINNER
2022 - Marcus Ericsson - Chip Ganassi Racing
2021 - Helio Castroneves - Meyer Shank Racing
2020 - Takuma Sato - Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
2019 - Simon Pagenaud - Team Penske
2018 - Will Power - Team Penske
2017 - Takuma Sato - Andretti Autosport
2016 - Alexander Rossi - Andretti Autosport
2015 - Juan Pablo Montoya - Team Penske
2014 - Ryan Hunter-Reay - Andretti Autosport
2013 - Tony Kanaan - KV Racing
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