if it takes about 2 hours to run 500 miles nowadays-how long did it take in 1911!i love watching motorsport but 2 days of it!lol
sifty,
Jun 2, 6:44am
The 1911 Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, or International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, May 30, 1911.
Ray Harroun in his self-designed, six-cylinder "Marmon Wasp" (so named for its distinctively sharp-pointed, wasp-like tail) led for 88 of the 200 laps, the most among the race's seven leaders, for a race-average speed of 74.602 mph (120.060 km/h) in a total time of 6:42:08 for the 500-mile (804.67 km) distance and was declared the winner.
Not too shabby for 100 yrs ago.
bleetbleet,
Jun 2, 7:05am
opps wrong button.lol.75 mph is actually very impressive.i had imagined 30-40.lol
foxdonut,
Jun 2, 10:22am
Did you guys know its actually something like 511 miles! The outer wheels travel a full rotation more than the leading wheels every 5-10 laps.
tigra,
Jun 2, 7:51pm
They used to specially build cars with different length suspension arms to suit the banked oval track until Jim Clark showed them that an F.One car could do the job quite well. Nearly won it first time out.
jmma,
May 2, 5:49am
Im guessing the pit stops would not have been a few seconds back then (o:
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