Which of the 9 Indy500 winners entered in the 107th edition stands the best chance of earning another trip to Victory Lane? IndyCar IMS
There are nine former Indianapolis 500 winners entered in this year’s 107th running of the race, and between them they have amassed 13 wins. David Malsher-Lopez assesses the chances of any of them earning a return visit to Victory Lane.The 1992 Indianapolis 500 saw 10 former winners start the race – and none of them won. The highest placed former winner that day was four-time Indy victor Al Unser Sr.
Pagenaud is meticulous in practice, knows exactly how his car should feel for it to work in dirty air or running on its own, on a variety of lines, and in different weather and track conditions. That’s what allowed him to climb through the pack from 26th to third in 2021, and had the race been the Indy 505 on that occasion, he might well have claimed his second Indy win in three years.
Reservations over his ultimate potential this year are the same as that of his teammate Pagenaud. But then, Castroneves was by no means favorite to score his fourth win a dozen years after his third, and yet when it mattered, there he was, able to out-drive and out-think an immensely talented driver, Alex Palou, in a superior car.Photo by: IndyCar Series
Penske’s drivers have acknowledged the team’s primary focus over the last winter was on reaching the front of the pack for Indy, but unless Chevrolet has a truly superior product to Honda at Speedway speeds, it’s hard to imagine Penske making up its deficit to Ganassi over the past three years.
Winning the opening race of this IndyCar season will have bolstered the ex-Formula 1 driver’s self-belief still further, regardless of the fact that it came on a street course. With four wins for Chip Ganassi, including one at Indy, Ericsson has earned his place with one of the greatest IndyCar teams of all time.
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