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Here is a full list of Indy 500 pace car drivers from 1911. All-time list of Indy 500 pace car drivers. 2025: Michael Strahan: Former NFL player, television host and Fox NFL analyst. 2024: Ken ...
1969 Chevrolet Camaro Pace Car. In most years through the early 1950s, the pace car led the field around the track for one warm up lap, and then the race began. The pace lap concept was popular with fans, as many drivers commonly waved at the fans and the rolling grid made for spectacular photographs.
The repaired 1971 Dodge Challenger pace car. For 1971, none of the Big Three auto manufacturers chose to supply a pace car for the Indianapolis 500, as the muscle car market had dried up and marketing efforts were shifted elsewhere. Four local Indianapolis-area Dodge dealers, spearheaded by Eldon Palmer, stepped up to supply the fleet of pace cars.
This year's celebrity pace car driver is baseball legend Ken Griffey Jr. “Driving the pace car and leading the field to start the Indy 500 is one of the coolest experiences,” Griffey Jr. said ...
The pace car for the 1991 Indy 500 was initially chosen to be the Dodge Stealth. However, the UAW, along with fans and traditionalists, protested since the Stealth was a captive import built by Mitsubishi in Japan. [10] Traditionally, the make of the pace car has always been a domestic American brand. In late February, the Stealth was ...
Michael Strahan will be the honorary pace car driver for the 109th Indianapolis 500.The Pro Football Hall of Fame member, 'Good Morning America' co-host and 'FOX NFL Sunday' analyst was announced ...
After the pace car crash a year earlier, the veteran driver Jim Rathmann was assigned the pace car driving duties. The passengers in the Hurst/Olds pace car included Tony Hulman , astronaut Pete Conrad , Chris Schenkel of ABC Sports, Bob Draper ( Hurst ), and Dolly Cole (wife of GM executive Ed Cole ), believed to be the first woman ever to ...
Baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. will lead the 33-car field to the green flag as pace car driver for the 108th Indianapolis 500.. Griffey has been to Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a ...