What is the official pace car for the Indy 500?
What is the official pace car for the Indy 500?
How fast does the pace car go? In NASCAR, the pace car goes 45 miles per hour. In IndyCar races, it goes around 110 miles per hour.
What year was the Corvette pace car for Indianapolis 500?
1978
1978 was the first year that the Corvette took on pace car duties for the Indy 500, the most watched motor race in the United States.
What years was the Camaro the Indy pace car?
Since the Camaro’s 1967 model year introduction, Chevrolet’s pony car has paced the Indianapolis 500 a total of seven times: 1967, 1969, 1982, 1993, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
What happened to the 1971 Indy 500 pace car?
The race was marred by a crash involving the pace car at the start. Eldon Palmer, a local Indianapolis-area Dodge dealer, lost control of the Dodge Challenger pace car at the south end of the pit area, and it crashed into a photographers’ stand, injuring 29 people, two seriously.
How fast does pace car go?
He works it up to 152 mph. But still, other than having those fancy blinking lights on the rooftop, piloting a pace car sounds like pretty sedentary work. Maybe a bit more glamourous than delivering a trailer home, but not much.
Are pace cars fast?
But for all the car’s potential — a 5.8-liter V-8 pushing out 662 horses — you aren’t allowed to go much faster than than a soccer mom driving junior to band practice: 45 miles per hour. Bell, being the racer he is, manages to get a few hot laps in on the Mustang before the race. He works it up to 152 mph.
What engine did 69 Camaro pace car have?
The Camaro SS pace car was powered by a 375-hp, 396-ci TurboJet V-8 engine and three-speed Turbo Hydra-Matic automatic transmission. According to records, only two cars were produced with this configuration, to be used for official pace car duties.
Who Wrecked the pace car?
Romain Grosjean
Romain Grosjean crashes Honda pace car at Laguna Seca while taping IndyCar video segment. Last weekend, he forgot for just a split-second that IndyCar brake boards run in feet, not meters. And that split-second was all it took to send him careening into James Hinchcliffe in Turn 1 of Lap 1 of the Grand Prix of Portland …
Has anyone ever wrecked the pace car?
Pace car drivers are back in the spotlight after Sunday’s mishap at IndyCar’s Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix. General Motors executive Mark Reuss lost control of his Corvette ZR1 and crashed during the warm-up lap.
