Saturday, May 29, 2010

All-Time Indianapolis 500 Field - Alphabetical


Mario Andretti
29 Starts - 1 Win (1969) - 5 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 3 Poles (1966, 1967, 1987) - 556 Laps Led



Michael Andretti
16 Starts - 0 Wins - 5 Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 431 Laps Led



Billy Arnold
5 Starts - 1 Win (1930) - 0 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1930) - 410 Laps Led



Jimmy Bryan
9 Starts - 1 Win (1958) - 2 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 216 Laps Led



Helio Castroneves
10 Starts (Active) - 3 Wins (2001, 2002, 2009) - 3 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 4 Poles (2003, 2007, 2009, 2010) - 231 Laps Led



Jim Clark
5 Starts - 1 Win (1965) - 2 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1964) - 298 Laps Led



Ralph DePalma
10 Starts - 1 Win (1915) - 2 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 2 Poles (1920, 1921) - 612 Laps Led



Emerson Fittipaldi
11 Starts - 2 Wins (1989, 1993) - 2 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1990) - 505 Laps Led



A.J. Foyt
35 Starts - 4 Wins (1961, 1964, 1967, 1977) - 6 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 4 Poles (1965, 1969, 1974, 1975) - 555 Laps Led



Dario Franchitti
7 Starts - 2 Wins (2007, 2010) - 0 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 255 Laps Led



Bill Holland
5 Starts - 1 Win (1949) - 3 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 297 Laps Led



Ted Horn
10 Starts - 0 Wins - 9 Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1947) - 94 Laps Led



Gordon Johncock
24 Starts - 2 Wins (1973, 1982) - 6 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 339 Laps Led



Parnelli Jones
7 Starts - 1 Win (1963) - 1 Additional Top 5 Finish - 2 Poles (1962, 1963) - 492 Laps Led



Frank Lockhart
2 Starts - 1 Win (1926) - 0 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1927) - 205 Laps Led



Arie Luyendyk
17 Starts - 2 Wins (1990, 1997) - 2 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 3 Poles (1993, 1997, 1999) - 188 Laps Led



Rex Mays
12 Starts - 0 Wins - 2 Top 5 Finishes - 4 Poles (1935, 1936, 1940, 1948) - 266 Laps Led



Rick Mears
15 Starts - 4 Wins (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991) - 5 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 6 Poles (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) - 429 Laps Led



Louis Meyer
12 Starts - 3 Wins (1928, 1933, 1936) - 3 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 332 Laps Led



Tommy Milton
8 Starts - 2 Wins (1921, 1923) - 2 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1923) - 218 Laps Led



Jimmy Murphy
5 Starts - 1 Win (1922) - 3 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 2 Poles (1922, 1924) - 220 Laps Led



Jim Rathmann
14 Starts - 1 Win (1960) - 4 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 153 Laps Led



Mauri Rose
16 Starts - 3 Wins (1941, 1947, 1948) - 4 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1941) - 256 Laps Led



Johnny Rutherford
24 Starts - 3 Wins (1974, 1976, 1980) - 1 Additional Top 5 Finish - 3 Poles (1973, 1976, 1980) - 296 Laps Led



Wilbur Shaw
13 Starts - 3 Wins (1937, 1939, 1940) - 4 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 508 Laps Led



Tom Sneva
18 Starts - 1 Win (1983) - 4 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 3 Poles (1977, 1978, 1984) - 208 Laps Led



Al Unser
27 Starts - 4 Wins (1970, 1971, 1978, 1987) - 9 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1970) - 644 Laps Led



Al Unser, Jr.
19 Starts - 2 Wins (1992, 1994) - 5 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1994) - 110 Laps Led



Bobby Unser
19 Starts - 3 Wins (1968, 1975, 1981) - 3 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 2 Poles (1972, 1981) - 480 Laps Led



Bill Vukovich
5 Starts - 2 Wins (1954, 1955) - 0 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 1 Pole (1953) - 485 Laps Led



Rodger Ward
15 Starts - 2 Wins (1959, 1962) - 4 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 261 Laps Led



Dan Wheldon
8 Starts (Active) - 1 Win (2005) - 4 Additional Top 5 Finishes - 0 Poles - 234 Laps Led
Posted by Roggespierre at 2:30 PM
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7 comments:

  1. Rocketman53May 29, 2010 at 7:27 PM

    I missed Ralph Hepburn...15 starts, 5 top tens, second to Wilbur Shaw in '37, and the first man to lead the “500” in three different decades – 1925, 1937 and 1946. Hep set the one-lap record of 134.449 mph in '46 in the Novi. He was a protege to Tommy Milton.

    Hep was also a motorcycle champion, an AMA Hall of Famer, one of the Harley-Davidson "Wrecking Crew," who won the last “Dodge City 300” by 12 minutes, shattering all the race speed records in the event’s last running.

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  2. RoggespierreMay 31, 2010 at 2:47 PM

    Rocketman,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I think you're right. Hepburn will make the list next year.

    So, too, will Franchitti. My only objective rule is that drivers who have multiple wins automatically make it.

    Of course, I'll have to eliminate two from the list. Villeneuve will probably have to go. I'm very partial to Frank Lockhart, who probably would have been the first three-time winner if he had lived long enough. So I'll have to work hard to find another to eliminate.

    Roggespierre

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  3. Rocketman53May 31, 2010 at 8:13 PM

    This is sacrilegious...after Villeneuve, Rex Mays.

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  4. RoggespierreMay 31, 2010 at 8:19 PM

    Eliminate Rex Mays?

    I don't know. Four poles and 18th on the all-time laps led list are stats that carry a lot of weight with me.

    Why eliminate him?

    Roggespierre

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  5. AnonymousOctober 5, 2010 at 12:29 AM

    Vuky won in '53 and '54. Died there in '55.

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  6. DonFebruary 3, 2011 at 1:58 AM

    I would drop Dan Wheldon and add Mark Donohue. Didn't perform well at Indy but was a great driver and brought many innovations to the sport.

    Jim Clark was a brilliant driver, but didn't add as much to Indy history as the others. The breakthrough in his win was the rear engine Ford. Replace him with Dan Gurney was just as cool and calculated a driver and also built great cars.

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  7. Jim ClarkMarch 4, 2023 at 6:35 AM

    I know it’s a bit like saying if your Granny had balls she’d have been your Grandpa but if Jim Clark had lived longer he would have won so much more.

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