Takuma Sato earns $1,370,500 for Indy 500 win, smallest race purse since 1991 due to pandemic
Takuma Sato will certainly take it, but the two-time Indy 500 winner’s check is massively smaller than his take-home pay from 2017.Ta
Takuma Sato will certainly take it, but the two-time Indy 500 winner’s check is massively smaller than his take-home pay from 2017.Ta
It looked like we’d have a down-to-the-wire battle between Takuma Sato and Scott Dixon, but Sunday’s Indy 500 ended under caution to give the Japanese driver his second 500 title.
With fans unable to attend Sunday’s Indy 500, drivers and IMS officials drove around Speedway to surprise some of the race’s most loyal fans.
For the first time since 1955, someone outside the Hulman-George family will give the command to start engines for Sunday’s Indy 500.
IndyCar knew the Indianapolis 500 was in peril on March 14. Here’s what it took to make it happen.
Pippa Mann sees a lack of corporate sponsors living up to their diversity pledges in supporting IndyCar drivers that are women. This Indy 500 will be the first without one since 2000.
Marco Andretti became the first member of his racing family in 33 years to snag a pole at the Indy 500.
Despite seven iterations of the 2020 IndyCar schedule, the series has stayed right around 14 races since mid-March. That’s not by accident.
A loss of fans present for this year’s Indy 500 is devastating enough, but had the race been shelved entirely for 2020, it likely would have had long-term implications for the series.
Roger Penske’s announcement Tuesday to run the Indy 500 without fans was a complex one, but it took emotion out of the equation.