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"What's it like to race across the blacktop of the nation's most famous track? How does it feel to smash into a concrete wall while going over 200 miles per hour? This exciting, humorous, and poignant collection of tales takes readers inside the most exciting race in America. Newly updated, Tales from the Indianapolis 500 captures horrific collisions and sweet victories from drivers past and present. With the 100th race approaching, the excitement...
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Accelerated Reader
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An introduction to Indy Car Racing, including famous drivers, history, and the race circuit.
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"At speeds of over 230 miles per hour, the Indy open-wheel race cars set the bar for American Championship car racing. For over 100 years, the Indy cars and their drivers have drawn hundreds of thousands of spectators to Speedway, Indiana, with another 6 million people watching the race on television or by live stream. In The Winning Cars of the Indianapolis 500, James Craig Reinhardt, author and official tour guide for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,...
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"Speedway" "Indy" "The 500"-- the best known automobile race in the world. The Indianapolis 500 has been held every year since 1911, the only exceptions being 1917-18 and 1942-45, during the periods when America was involved in the two world wars. It's been a 100+ years saga of dreams, innovation, ingenuity, bravery, triumph, and tragedy. This is the story of the Indianapolis 500, how it came to be, and what it has meant over the years.
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2003.
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Follows the final days of the Offenhauser front engine roadsters and the victories of Jim Rathmann, A.J. Foyt Jr., Roger Ward, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser. Witness the dawn of a new era in race car technology at the 500 with the emergence of mid-engine Ford racing machines.
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[2005]
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Did you know that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was actually built in 1909, not 1911? Host to balloon races, motorcycle races, an aviation meet and over 80 auto races, the Speedway was the center of many historical events before the first Indianapolis 500 was even a thought! Yet nowhere has this history ever been fully documented in one place, until now. --
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