The Historic Grid Listing

As part of the celebration of the 100 years of IMS, IndyCar rolled out a grid of historic Indy 500 winners (above). Read all about it on the Official Blog HERE. Courtesy of IndyCar PR, here is a listing of the cars on the historic grid.

1 -- 1911 (yellow) Harroun 2010 (red) Franchitti 1961 (white) Foyt
2 -- 1979 (white/blue/red) Mears 1939/40 (maroon) Shaw 1970 (blue) Unser
3 -- 1963 (white/blue/red) Jones 1990 (red) Luyendyk 1947/48 (blue) Rose
4 -- 1980 (yellow) Rutherford 1953 (gray) Vukovich 1968 (red/black/yellow) Unser
5 -- 1964 (white/blue/red) Foyt 1965 (green/yellow)Clark 1922 (cream) Murphy
6 -- 1969 (orange) Andretti 1957/58 (yellow) Hanks/Bryan 1983 (white/red/blue) Sneva
7 -- 1912 (blue)Dawson 1982 (blue/red)Johncock 1952 (cream) Ruttman
8 -- 1972 (blue) Donohue 1962 (red/white/blue) Ward 2000 (red) Montoya
9 -- 1928 (gold/black) Meyer 1995 (blue/white) Villeneuve 1950 (yellow) Parsons
10 -- 1977 (orange) Foyt 1951 (blue) Wallard 1992 (blue/white/red) Unser
11 -- 1946 (blue) Robson 1978 (red/white/blue) Unser 1932 (white) Frame

Comments

[redd]

cool. start 'em up...

[ThatGuy]

Wish Villeneuve's Reynard was up front and center and Franchitti's Dallara was stuck in the back and mostly hidden like Montoya's barely tolerable G-Force. Otherwise, no complaints.

[Voltik]

What a great site to see. wish I could have been there to see it... Would have been a 1200 or so picture shoot to get them all from all the angles omg... speechless

[Mike Silver]

Wouldn't it be cool to see these cars do a parade lap on race morning?

[Brian]

That....is....awesome. I would have taken a vacation day just to head to the track and see that, if only for five minutes. PLEASE tell us they're going to do that again in May.

[Second-hand Smoke]

Surprised to see that no Marlboro/Penske cars made the grid. They could have at least included Mears 1991 winner. But overall this is an awesome photo op.

[Mike M]

""""Wish Villeneuve's Reynard was up front and center and Franchitti's Dallara was stuck in the back and mostly hidden like Montoya's barely tolerable G-Force. Otherwise, no complaints.""""

With all the variations on that grid, why would those two cars bother you? The g-force is a nice looking car.. The Dallara looks fine. You have the 1st car to win, the last car to win, and the car that won at the 50th year of the event staged on the front row. Don't ruin a good thing for yourself with petty split politics. Sit back and dig it.

[Professor Fate]

Push the button, Max.

[MomMKL]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[Leigh O'Gorman]

Lovely stuff

[Timber Lane]

Got one of the last large bricks from the Brickyard before it was renovated. Saw Andretti, Mears and several other race there as well.

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[Bob Jones]

"and Mario is slowing down" I've heard that many time when I used to pay attention to the Indy 500.

I remember when the 500 used to mean something. Tony George really messed up the prestige of the 500 and he killed CART.

[UnserJrFan]

Note to Mr. Barnhart, 3 wide, 11 rows makes a nice photo as well as pretty exciting way to start the race. Tradition has it merits.

[Christopher Leone]

Somebody needs to put these cars in a little game and sell it as an iPhone app for $4.99. I know I'd buy it.