More trivia

[crashcoursed]

1. What well known indy driver was also a parachuting and ski jumping champion?

2. who started #1 and finished #1 in car 23 then the next year started in car #1 qualifying 23rd and finishing 23rd?

3. Jim hurtibise did it once, who else posted the fastest time but had to start far back in the field (19th) with the fastest speed that year?

4. Who is the only man I know of to start 33rd in 3 different indy 500's

5. What owner put 46 cars in the indy 500--but never won it

6. name the three drivers who died piloting his cars. (one with an *)

7. Who held the pit board for the ayr-way/WIRE special?

8. Tony Hulman took 2 laps around indy with a race driver and vowed never to do it again. Who was the driver?

9. How is James J. Jeffries Heavyweight champion linked to the brickyard?

10. What book did I get these questions from?

[grogg]

1. Dick Simon
3. Mario Andretti (1976), Gary Bettenhausen (1992)
4. Bill Cheesburg
5. Lindsey Hopkins.
6. Bill Vukovich, Bobby Marshman

[Belanger99]

The answer to 2 is Floyd Roberts, who was tragically killed coming out of turn 2 in the winning car from the year before.

3-Add in Tom Sneva, who qualified fastest in 1981 but started 20th. Also Arie Luyendyk in 1996.

[Racewriter]

7. Robin Miller

[crashcoursed]

6 out of 10 right

one is 2/3 right--lindsey hopkins lost one other driver the one with an asterick next to it

miller was the pit board guy for johnny parsons

marshman was killed tire testing in a hopkins car

[ensign14]

6 = Tony Bettenhausen?

9 = he was in the car taking the inaugural lap around the newly-completed Brickyard in 1909.

[lululj]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by crashcoursed
[B]6 out of 10 right

one is 2/3 right--lindsey hopkins lost one other driver the one with an asterick next to it






Asterick?......asterick?........asterick?......... .



I know!!!! It must be Roger Maris!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crashcoursed]

or the new england patriots superbowl from 2 years ago--heh

tony bettenhausen is correct but he was not in a hopkins car but was test driving a car fro a friend but his assigned car was a lindsay hopkins entrant

jefferies did indeed take the first lap around the newly paved with thousands of bricks indy race course in 1909

I kinda thought somebody would get #8

[indyrjc]

I believe that Tony Hulman might have taken a ride around with Wilbur Shaw. If true, however, that was not the last time that he drove around the track in a racecar. He actually took 3 laps around the Speedway on opening day in 1959 driving his son-in-law Elmer George's HOW Special. According to the Clymer Yearbook Tony paid the USAC Driver Registration and insurance fees so that he would be legal.

[crashcoursed]

yep wilbur shaw is correct he took two laps with him in 1950

I don't know about the other laps--the book I read called A month at the brickyard by sonny kleinfield basically says tony didn't want to take another lap again after the experience with shaw.

incidently for all you 1970's fans this book chronicles johnny parsons month of may in the ayr/way WIRE special #93

excellent reading for that year and many other aspects of the month of may