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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 2000
Page
23
The Indy 500 in Indianapolis opens May 28 with 33 cars from a 90-entry pool to race 500 miles. The event draws world leading attendance and prize money with records for seats and spectators. Cars feature front and rear wings, high costs, methanol fuel, and blazing acceleration, while trials determine final entrants.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a 2 1/2 mile oval requiring 200 laps. Each lap can take as little as 41 seconds. The 1999 winner finished 500 miles in 3 hours 15 minutes 51.182 seconds. The track earned its Brickyard name from bricks once paving the yard at the finish line.
The piece explains Indy cars sit low to the ground with the 650 horsepower engine behind the driver. It notes engines exceed family car power by more than four times and that Indy cars have open cockpits and open wheels. These cars exceed 220 mph and can cover a football field in about one second.
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