Indy 500 winners

The Indianapolis 500 is an annual 200 lap, American open-wheel car race that takes place on the weekend of American Memorial Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of Indianapolis. It was held as the International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race between 1911 and 1915 before becoming the 300-Mile Liberty Sweepstakes and then reverting to International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race from 1920 until 1980. The American Automobile Association were the governing body of the event between its inception until 1955, then United States Auto Club from 1956 to 1997, and the Indy Racing League/IndyCar from 1998 onwards. Since 1936, each winning driver and team is presented with a small replica of the art deco sterling silver Borg-Warner Trophy, which sees a bas-relief sculpture of the winning driver's face added to the base. The driver receives a laurel wreath made of 33 ivory-colored Cymbidium orchids featuring burgundy tips and 33 miniature flags interwoven with blue, red and white ribbons in victory lane each year since 1960, and drinks a bottle of milk, a tradition started by Louis Meyer after he won the 1936 race. The winning driver receives a championship ring at a ceremony at IMS.

Hélio Castroneves, A. J. Foyt, Rick Mears, and Al Unser all hold the record for the most Indianapolis 500 victories, having won the race four times each. There have been six drivers who have achieved three victories at the event: Dario Franchitti, Meyer, Mauri Rose, Johnny Rutherford, Wilbur Shaw, and Bobby Unser. Five drivers have won the race twice in succession but none have claimed three or more consecutive victories. Shaw was the first driver to achieve consecutive wins when he finished first in the 1939 and 1940 races. Castroneves holds the record for the longest period of time between his first Indianapolis 500 victory and his last, a span of two decades. He won his first Indianapolis 500 in the 2001 edition and his last (to date) at the 2021 event. Juan Pablo Montoya had to wait the longest time between his maiden victory at the 2000 race, and his second win followed 15 years later at the 2015 event. Troy Ruttman is the youngest winner of the Indianapolis 500; he was 22 years and 80 days old when he won the 1952 event. Al Unser is the oldest winner of the Indianapolis 500; he was 47 years and 360 days old when he won the 1987 race.

As of the 2022 event, there have been 74 race winners in the 106 editions of the Indianapolis 500. The first winner was American racer Ray Harroun in the 1911 edition, and the most recent victor is Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson in the 2022 race. It has been won by 52 American drivers in 74 editions of the race, followed by British and Brazilian racers who have each achieved victory eight times amongst five and four drivers, respectively. There have been seven countries who have produced only one winner. There have been two editions, the 1924 and 1941 races, where two drivers sharing a car were named joint winners.

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