What kind of race is the Indy 500?

Question

It's not Nascar...What is it?? lol

Answer 1

Open-wheel cars. The race uses the Indy Car specs.

Answer 2

It's been a long long tradition @ Indy for the inaugural Indy 500. There they race opened wheel racecars. In a sense, it's like NASCAR except the cars weigh 1/3 of a Cup car, have the same hp go around in a oval, but go 30mph faster. The only downside is if you rub, you pretty much f'ked up your car and you'll be seeing the wall in no time flat.

Answer 3

The Indianapolis 500 is the most important of three races held every year at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race features "Indy Cars" which are essentially designed to race on this track, but also have other races in the "Indy Racing League".

The United States Grand Prix is held at the same track it is the most important Formula One race in the USA.

The Brickyard 400 (the Brickyard is a nickname for the track which was once made of bricks) is the NASCAR race held at Indianapolis.

Answer 4

The fellow above me is correct. Since 1996, the Indianapolis 500 has been sanctioned by the Indy Racing League owned by the George family who also own Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Throughout the years the race has been sanctioned by a number of different sanctioning bodies from FIA the group that sanctions Formula 1 to AAA racing in the 1940's through the 1960's and CART World Championship racing. The cars, as mentioned earlier, are not production based and are purpose built racecars without fenders. One of the main differences between the two main sanctioning bodies in the United States for open wheeled racecars, CART and IRL, is the IRL utilizes naturally aspirated engines producing lower amounts of horsepower for safety as they run primarily on oval courses and CART cars are more akin to formula one cars with turbo charged engines running predominately on road courses.

Answer 5

It is a race sanctioned by the Indy Racing League. The cars are all open wheeled (no fenders) race cars not meant to represent a car that you can buy and drive on the street. They have rules that must be adhered to to keep the race as safe as possible and to not overpower the track's capability to handle the speed that they will achieve. NASCAR cars are supposed to represent cars that you can buy at a dealership, but are highly modified. Again, they have rules to make the racing safe. Some modifications are for chassis safety, and some are to limit the horsepower they develop so that they don't overpower the track's capability to handle the speed.

Answer 6

Just like the race title

they race indy cars

the title comes from the city its held in
indianapolis(spell check)

Answer 7

It's indy cars, which are open-wheelers.
It is not to be confused with Formula One Grand Prix racing, which is a different (and much better) type of racing altogether.

Answer 8

Duh...Indy Car.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

endurance and testing were the reasons the Indianapolis 500 was begun in the beginning.