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The start of the Indy 500 used to be one crazy deal
Posted on 1/16/15 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 1/16/15 at 7:30 pm
Here is the 1971 pace car crashing into the photo-journalist stands to start the race (with John Glenn and Chris Schenkel onboard). 
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Posted on 1/16/15 at 7:47 pm to tiger81
Man, I've never seen that.
Eldon Palmer, bad driver.
Eldon Palmer, bad driver.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 7:49 pm to tiger81
Well, that was dumb.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:12 pm to tiger81
Damn, he was hauling arse down pit road
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:23 pm to Goalman34
My sister road in the pace car in the mid 90's to start the race. She was with Anheuser Busch at the time.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:34 pm to Goalman34
I think he overheated the brakes. I don't think you are going to impress John Glenn with speed in a car.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:38 pm to Goalman34
I always loved the start where "coogan" ran over AJs car on the warmup lap, and AJ cussed on live TV.
Read Robin Miller's columns on Racer.com if you like old school Indy Car racing.
Read Robin Miller's columns on Racer.com if you like old school Indy Car racing.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:42 pm to tiger81
That is what happens when you use a Dodge
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:54 pm to SG_Geaux
formula one from the mid 80's and earlier was a crazy deal. The safety had not caught up with the speed.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 11:41 pm to Alabama Slim
The drunk redneck that stole the pace car at Talladega in 86 is pretty good. The cops chased him around the track and they set up a road block near the start finish line. Dragged his arse out of the car by the mullet and beat that arse
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Posted on 1/16/15 at 11:49 pm to tiger81
Posted on 1/18/15 at 6:25 am to Ace Midnight
I grew up in Indy before starting school at Auburn and never leaving the South. There is almost nothing in the sporting world as exciting as the start of that race. Need to take my family to one of those things.
Posted on 1/18/15 at 6:43 am to Martini
So your sister was a bud girl?
Posted on 1/18/15 at 8:50 am to Motorboat
She was the head of Anheuser Busch Asia for a dozen years. A couple of pay grades above a Bud girl with a few more perks as well.
Posted on 1/18/15 at 10:38 am to tiger81
Wreck that got up into the stands, fire and all:
1973 start crash that got into the stands
This one changed a whole lot of the way things had been done.
1973 start crash that got into the stands
This one changed a whole lot of the way things had been done.
Posted on 1/18/15 at 10:45 am to tiger81
And here's a mess that followed a few days later up in the same race, incredible:
1973 Swede Savage wreck
1973 Swede Savage wreck
Posted on 1/18/15 at 10:46 am to Twenty 49
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I always loved the start where "coogan" ran over AJs car on the warmup lap, and AJ cussed on live TV.
Kevin Cogan. He claimed he broke a half-shaft, others claimed he just lost control.
Posted on 1/18/15 at 11:59 am to holmesbr
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I think he overheated the brakes.
It may have had the old drum brakes....plus they put a cone in pit row as a marker to let him know when to brake and somebody supposedly moved it.
Probably a bit of both
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