Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost from the start the race was a spectacular, bitter duel between Troy Ruttman, driving an Agajanian Special, and Bill Vukovich, in a Fuel Injection Engine Special. Ruttman took the lead on the twelfth lap of the 2½-mi. brick and tar speedway. Vukovich, out after the $100-a-lap prize money, grabbed it back again on 13, held it to 55, when he made a fast stop for oil. Then Ruttman popped back in front. On lap No. 83, Vukovich took the lead again and Ruttman's car, a lap later, lost time fighting a fire under...
...tire change cost Vukovich the lead, to Ruttman, in the 135th lap; 11 laps later, for the same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line, had a fairly substantial (31 seconds) lead, but he could see from information flagged from his pit that Ruttman was gaining...
Less than 22 miles from the finish, Vukovich apparently had the race wrapped up with a 19-second (about three-quarters of a mile) lead when he skidded and cracked up on the northeast wall. He escaped uninjured. Ruttman, with the race-now in his pocket (a three-lap lead with eight to go), slowed down and coasted in, still in the fastest time (3:52:41.88) and at the fastest speed (128.922 m.p.h.) in Indianapolis history...
...they turned for the final lap, Hutter gained a slight edge, an advantage he opened up to win the race and the match for Harvard...
...Ferrari held the lead until the 16th lap, when Wacker, president of the S.C.C.A., gunned the Allard in front. On the 21st lap Spear, 36, driving all out, took the lead. Wacker made one more bid. For a good part of the final lap, the Allard and Ferrari ran wheel to wheel on the two-lane road until Spear pulled ahead to win by a couple of car lengths. Time for the 100 miles (25 laps): 1:11:42, an average of 83.6 m.p.h...