Field for the most prestigious race on the IndyCar circuit ...

Field for the most prestigious race on the IndyCar circuit rev up for the 102nd running of the Indy 500

Returning winners, Danica, highlight race

D efending champion Takuma Sato of Japan and three-time winner Helio Castroneves of Brazil are among six former winners in the 33-car field for the Indianapolis 500. IndyCar's marqee event will include four other past winners: New Zealand's Scott Dixon, the 2008 champion, Brazil's Tony Kanaan (2013) and Americans Alexander Rossi (2016) and Ryan Hunter-Reay (2014). Danica Patrick has drawn plenty of attention as she gears up for her eighth and final start in the "500" and her first since 2011. Patrick, the top-finishing female driver in the history of the race, is retiring as a driver after this event. Indianapolis native Ed Carpenter captured the poll for the third time in his career. Carpenter's previous starts from the pole came in 2013 and 2014.

Indianapolis 500 ? Indianapolis Motor Speedway

RACE DISTANCE: 200 laps (500 miles)

The track was constructed in 1909 Fastest four-lap qualifying speed: Arie Luyendyk ? 236.986 mph (1996)

TRACK DISTANCE: 2.5 miles

Inaugural Indy 500 race winner: Ray Harroun ? 1911 ? 74.602 mph

MOST INDY 500 WINS (4): A.J. Foyt (1961, 1964, 1967, 1977) Al Unser (1970, 1971, 1978, 1987) Rick Mears (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991)

TURN 4

TURN 2

Banking in corners 9 degrees

THE BRICKYARD

The track was paved with 3.2 million bricks after the gravel and tar surface caused several deaths. A three-foot strip of those original bricks still exists on the starting line.

TURN 3

Pagoda Start/finish

TURN 1

WINS 20

15

10

STARTING POSITIONS OF WINNING CARS

5

0 POS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 25 27 28

NOTE: No entry starting at the 18th, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and 33rd positions has won the race to date.

200 MPH

187.433 (record)

150

World War II (no races)

World War I (no races)

155.395 MPH

100

AVERAGE WINNING SPEEDS

74.602 MPH

50 1911 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '17

ROW 11 ROW 10 ROW 9 ROW 8 ROW 7 ROW 6 ROW 5 ROW 4 ROW 3 ROW 2 ROW 1

Indy 500 lineup

Position, car number, driver and average qualification speed:

POS CAR DRIVER 1 (20) Ed Carpenter 2 (22) Simon Pagenaud 3 (12) Will Power

MPH 229.618 228.761 228.607

4 (1) Josef Newgarden 5 (18) Sebastien Bourdais 6 (21) Spencer Pigot

228.405 228.142 228.107

7 (13) Danica Patrick 8 (3) Helio Castroneves 9 (9) Scott Dixon

228.090 227.859 227.262

10 (14) Tony Kanaan 11 (4) Matheus Leist 12 (98) Marco Andretti

227.664 227.571 227.288

13 (19) Zachary Claman De Melo 226.999

14 (28) Ryan Hunter-Reay

226.788

15 (23) Charlie Kimball

226.657

16 (30) Takuma Sato 17 (32) Kyle Kaiser 18 (6) Robert Wickens

226.557 226.398 226.296

19 (33) James Davison 20 (59) Max Chilton 21 (29) Carlos Munoz

226.255 226.212 226.048

22 (88) Gabby Chaves 23 (25) Stefan Wilson 24 (24) Sage Karam

226.007 225.863 225.823

25 (26) Zach Veach 26 (64) Oriol Servia 27 (66) JR Hildebrand

225.748 225.699 225.418

28 (7) Jay Howard 29 (10) Ed Jones 30 (15) Graham Rahal

225.388 225.362 225.327

31 (60) Jack Harvey 32 (27) Alexander Rossi 33 (17) Conor Daly

225.254 224.935 224.429

SOURCE: Indianapois Motor Speedway

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