Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500 is a car race held in Speedway, Indiana. It is one of the best-known events in American racing. The race is held every Memorial Day weekend at the 2.5-mile racetrack. Cars are purpose-built race cars with 800-horsepower V8 engines mounted behind the driver. Despite being a very American tradition, there are many successful foreign drivers, including Dario Franchitti from Scotland, Scott Dixon from New Zealand and Helio Castroneves from Brazil.

The event has been run for a hundred years and has a massive attendance on race day with as many as 400,000 attendees.

Tony Kanaan was one of the winners after several years of near misses in the event.