Year | First | Achiever(s) | Notes |
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1911 | Winning driver | Ray Harroun | Retired from racing competition upon victory |
Winning owner | Nordyke & Marmon Company | Withdrew from racing competition upon victory | |
Rear-view mirror mounted, and winning, car |
Marmon Wasp | First entry with rear-view mirror, all international motorsports competition | |
1913 | Rookie winner (excluding first race) | Jules Goux | First to win in first career start, excluding first race |
Non-American winner | |||
European winner | |||
French winner | |||
1915 | Italian winner | Ralph DePalma | Italian-born DePalma emigrated to America as a child |
1916 | Multiple-winning owner(s) | Peugeot | Winning owners, 1913, 1916 |
British winner | Dario Resta | Italian-born Resta emigrated to Great Britain as a child | |
1922 | Winner from pole position | Jimmy Murphy | |
Winner leading first lap | |||
Driver-Owner winner | |||
Race and Grand Prix winning car | Duesenberg 1921 GP | Won 1921 French Grand Prix | |
1923 | Two-time winner | Tommy Milton | Winner, 1921, 1923 |
1924 | Co-winners | Lora L. Corum Joe Boyer |
Corum starting, Boyer finishing |
1924 | Repeat-winning owner(s) | Duesenberg | |
1925 | |||
1926 | Rain-shortened race winner | Frank Lockhart | Race concluded by rain at 160 laps, 400 miles (640 km), with Lockhart holding a two lap lead |
1936 | Three-time winner | Louis Meyer | Winner, 1928, 1933, 1936 |
1939 | Repeat-winning driver Repeat-winning car |
Wilbur Shaw Maserati 8CTF |
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1940 | |||
1946 | English winner | George Robson | English-born Robson emigrated to America as a child |
1947 | First-and-second-place finish by teammates | Mauri Rose | Rose victorious |
Bill Holland | Holland second | ||
Three consecutive-winning owner | Lou Moore | ||
1948 | |||
1949 | |||
1952 | Rookie of the Year award winner | Art Cross | First awarded in 36th running of the race |
Youngest winner | Troy Ruttman | Winner with 22 years and 80 days | |
1965 | Race and World Championship winner, and in same year | Jim Clark | |
Scottish winner | Drivers originating from countries within the United Kingdom traditionally operate under British classification | ||
Rear-engined winning car | Lotus 38 | Team Lotus, entrant | |
1966 | Race and Monaco Grand Prix winner | Graham Hill | Winner, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, and 1969 Monaco Grand Prix |
1967 | Race and 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, and in same year | A. J. Foyt | Dan Gurney, Le Mans teammate and co-driver |
1969 | Race and Daytona 500 winner | Mario Andretti | Winner, 1967 Daytona 500 |
Race and 12 Hours of Sebring winner | Winner, 1967, 1970, and 1972 12 Hours of Sebring | ||
1972 | Race and 24 Hours of Daytona winner | Mario Andretti | Winner, 1969 and 1978 World Championships First year competed after winning 1972 24 Hours of Daytona |
Wing-mounted winning car | McLaren M16 | Entered by Roger Penske, driven by Mark Donohue | |
1977 | Four-time winner | A. J. Foyt | Winner, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1977 |
Female qualifier | Janet Guthrie | Qualified 26th, finished 29th out of 33 drivers | |
1987 | Oldest winner | Al Unser | Winner with 47 years and 360 days, Winner, 1970, 1971, 1978, 1987 |
1989 | South American winner | Emerson Fittipaldi | |
Brazilian winner | |||
1990 | Dutch winner | Arie Luyendyk | |
1991 | African-American qualifier | Willy T. Ribbs | Qualified 29th, finished 32 out of 33 drivers |
1992 | Female Rookie of the Year | Lyn St. James | Finished 13th |
1993 | Two-time Race and two-time World Championship winner | Emerson Fittipaldi | Winner, 1989; Winner, 1972 and 1974 World Championships |
1995 | Canadian winner | Jacques Villeneuve | Winner, 1997 World Championships |
1999 | Swedish winner | Kenny Bräck | |
2000 | Colombian winner | Juan Pablo Montoya | Winner, 2000, 2015, Won 2003 Monaco Grand Prix and won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2007, 2008 and 2013 |
2001 | Rookie and sophomore winner | Hélio Castroneves | First to win in first two career starts |
2002 | |||
2005 | Female leader | Danica Patrick | Led 19 laps; Lap 192, latest |
2006 | Final lap lead change | Sam Hornish Jr. | Overtook Marco Andretti on the final straight line. |
2008 | New Zealand winner | Scott Dixon | |
2009 | Three females both starting and finishing Race | Danica Patrick Sarah Fisher Milka Duno |
Danica Patrick finished 3rd, becoming the highest finishing female in race history. |
2011 | Winner leading only final lap | Dan Wheldon | Took lead from J. R. Hildebrand on the final lap. |
2017 | Asian winner | Takuma Sato | |
Japanese winner | |||
2018 | Australian winner | Will Power | |
2021 | Non-American four-time winner | Hélio Castroneves | Winner, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2021 |
Year | Speed Barrier |
Race Winner | Time | Average Speed | Notes | |
(mph) | (km/h) | |||||
1911 | 70 mph | Ray Harroun | 6:42:08.92 | 74.602 | 129.060 | First race |
1914 | 80 mph | René Thomas | 6:03:46.12 | 82.47 | 132.72 | |
1922 | 90 mph | Jimmy Murphy | 5:17:30.79 | 94.48 | 152.05 | Victory in 1921 French Grand Prix winning car |
1925 | 100 mph | Peter DePaolo | 4:56:39.45 | 101.127 | 162.748 | First race completed in under 5 hours |
1937 | 110 mph | Wilbur Shaw | 4:24:07.08 | 113.580 | 182.789 | Last two-seat winning car |
1949 | 120 mph | Bill Holland | 4:07:14.97 | 121.327 | 195.257 | |
1954 | 130 mph | Bill Vukovich | 3:49:17.27 | 130.840 | 210.567 | |
1962 | 140 mph | Rodger Ward | 3:33:50.33 | 140.293 | 225.780 | |
1965 | 150 mph | Jim Clark | 3:19:05.34 | 150.686 | 242.506 | |
1972 | 160 mph | Mark Donohue | 3:04:05.54 | 162.962 | 262.262 | |
1986 | 170 mph | Bobby Rahal | 2:55:43.470 | 170.722 | 274.750 | First race completed in under 3 hours |
1990 | 180 mph | Arie Luyendyk | 2:41:18.404 | 185.981 | 299.307 | Currently third-fastest time for 500 miles |
2021 | 190 mph | Hélio Castroneves | 2:37:19.3846 | 190.690 | 306.886 | Currently fastest Indy 500 in average speed |
Year | Speed Barrier |
Driver | Speed | Notes | |
(mph) | (km/h) | ||||
1911 | N/A | Lewis Strang | No full lap | First race; grid determined by entry date | |
1915 | 90 mph | Howdy Wilcox | 98.90 | 159.16 | First year, grid position determined by qualification speed |
1919 | 100 mph | René Thomas | 104.780 | 168.627 | |
1925 | 110 mph | Leon Duray | 113.196 | 182.171 | |
1927 | 120 mph | Frank Lockhart | 120.100 | 193.282 | |
1939 | 130 mph | Jimmy Snyder | 130.138 | 209.437 | |
1954 | 140 mph | Jack McGrath | 141.033 | 226.971 | Engine augmented with nitromethane additive, then legal |
1962 | 150 mph | Parnelli Jones | 150.370 | 241.997 | |
1965 | 160 mph | A. J. Foyt | 161.233 | 259.479 | |
1968 | 170 mph | Joe Leonard | 171.559 | 276.097 | Turbine-engined car |
1972 | 180 mph | Bobby Unser† | 195.940 | 315.335 | 17 mph (27 km/h) increase in pole record speed, largest margin to date |
190 mph | |||||
1978 | 200 mph | Tom Sneva | 202.156 | 325.339 | Broke one-lap 200 mph qualifying barrier in 1977 |
1984 | 210 mph | 210.029 | 338.009 | ||
1989 | 220 mph | Rick Mears | 223.885 | 360.308 | |
1992 | 230 mph | Roberto Guerrero | 232.482 | 374.144 |
†- During time trials, Bill Vukovich II turned his first lap at 185.797 mph (299.011 km/h), to set the one-lap track record, and was the first driver to officially break the 180 mph (290 km/h) barrier. He, however, crashed on his second lap, and did not complete the four-lap qualifying run. Later in the afternoon, Joe Leonard qualified a four-lap average of 185.223 mph (298.088 km/h) to break the four-lap 180 mph (290 km/h) barrier. Later in the day, however, Bobby Unser qualified even faster, over 190 mph (310 km/h), and became the first pole position winner to break 180 mph (290 km/h) and 190 mph (310 km/h) for his four-lap average.